Current Resident: Jul 1, 2023–Jun 30, 2024
Toby Devan Lewis
Studio #305
Artist
Laura Bernstein
Laura Bernstein creates layered worlds that explore human and animal behavior, as well as mythologies of metamorphose. Her work reflects on the climate through video, performance, installation, and painting, drawing inspiration from medieval illuminated manuscripts and theatrical spectacle traditions.
Laura Bernstein has exhibited at Essex Flowers Gallery; BRIC; and Children’s Museum of the Arts, all in New York, among others.
Laura Bernstein, Hell Mouth, 2022, installation with three-channel stop-motion video, 3:00 min loop (color, sound), hand-stitched appliqué textiles, 18 puppets made from aluminum armature wire and repurposed fabrics, hoops, plaster, dowels, wood, papier-mâché and imitation gold leaf, 42 × 36 × 36 in. (106.68 × 91.44 × 91.44 cm)
Laura Bernstein, Miracle Tapestries Processional, January I--December XII, 2020, 2021, assortment of recycled organic and synthetic fabrics, hand stitched, thread and 10 PVC pipes, 12 × 100 in. (30.48 × 254 cm)
Laura Bernstein, Murder Hornets Sun Spike, 2022, watercolor and ink on watercolor paper, 42 × 60 in. (106.68 × 152.4 cm)
Laura Bernstein, Illuminator, 2019, plaster, burlap, steel plumbing pipes, wax, candles, glass, sand, imitation gold leaf, matchbox, brass, candle snuff, and acrylic on canvas and watercolor and ink on paper, dimensions variable
Laura Bernstein, A Speculative Performance Presented by The Institute of Super-Species Research and Experimentation, (ISSRE), 2019, performance, 60 min.
Residents from United States
Current Resident: Mar 1, 2024–May 31, 2024
Canada Council for the Arts
Studio #306
Artist
Insoon Ha
Insoon Ha explores themes of power, colonialism, hybridity, and the abject. Working across several media, her work takes shape in visceral forms, producing scenes that probe and disturb. In her creative process, Ha draws upon both her personal and cultural history and the capacity for dichotomy that we all embody.
Insoon Ha has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo; and Whanki Museum, Seoul, among others.
insoonha.caEvents & Exhibitions
2024 Spring Open Studios
April 12–April 13, 2024
Insoon Ha, Dirge, 2023, recycling paper, 16 × 16 × 12 in. (40.64 × 40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Insoon Ha, Tear, 2018, aquaresin, 10 × 12 × 79 in. (25.4 × 30.48 × 200.66 cm)
Insoon Ha, Limb, 2018, rubber and rebar, 63/8 × 4 × 31 in. (16.26 × 10.16 × 78.74 cm)
Insoon Ha, Face, 2015, digital prints, 24
Insoon Ha, Face, 2004, plaster
Residents from South Korea
Current Resident: Mar 31, 2023–May 31, 2024
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Jerome Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Joiri Minaya
Joiri Minaya’s work is a reassertion of Self, an exercise of unlearning, decolonizing and exorcizing imposed histories, cultures and ideas. She reconciles the experiences of growing up in the Dominican Republic and navigating the United States and the Global North, using gaps, disconnections and misinterpretations as ground for creativity.
Joiri Minaya has exhibited work at Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York; Wave Hill, New York; and Centro León, Santiago, Dominican Republic, among others.
Past Residencies
2022–2023Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Jerome Foundation
2020–2021Vision Fund
Joiri Minaya, #dominicanwomengooglesearch, 2016, UV print on Sintra board and fabric collage, 180 × 72 × 144 in. (457.2 × 182.88 × 365.76 cm)
Joiri Minaya, Tropticon, 2018, aluminum, polycarbonate and perforated vinyl, 120 × 144 × 120 in. (304.8 × 365.76 × 304.8 cm)
Joiri Minaya, Continuum, 2020, digital collage, 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.32 cm)
Container #7, 2020, photography, 60 × 40 in. (152.4 × 101.6 cm)
Joiri Minaya, The Cloaking of the statue of Christopher Columbus behind the Bayfront Park Amphitheatre, and the statue of Ponce de Leon at the Torch of Friendship on Biscayne Blvd, Miami, Florida, 2019, dye-sublimation print on spandex fabric and wood structure, 60 × 144 × 60 in. (152.4 × 365.76 × 152.4 cm)
Ground Floor Residents
Tamen Pérez
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Azita Moradkhani
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
James Beckett
New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha