Current Resident: Apr 1, 2022–Mar 31, 2023
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
James Beckett
James Beckett’s practice explores overlooked histories concerned with industrial development and the built environment. With a focus on the physicality of historically-laden objects, his works deal with cultural signs that shape our experience in the modern era. The approach considers proximity in the experience of subjects through tertiary bodies, and the implications of their given traces. Beckett activates objects in order to unpack their abstract and metaphysical potential, often employing the absurd and uncanny to form new perspectives on formative events.
James Beckett has exhibited at the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, amongst others. His work is in collections of Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is the winner of Prix de Rome Art & Public Space.
Past Residencies
2020–2021Mondriaan Fund
James Beckett, A Seedless Grape, 2020-21, installation at the International Studio & Curatorial Program of backlit plexiglass, condenser coils, various objects, wood, and UV print on glass , 144 × 144 × 300 in. (365.76 × 365.76 × 762 cm)
James Beckett, The Skeptical Structures of Max, 2019, installation, dimensions variable
James Beckett, Negative Space: A Scenario Generator for Clandestine Building in Africa, 2015, robotics istallation, dimensions variable
James Beckett, Palace Ruin, 2018, installation for public space, dimensions variable
James Beckett, Pairings, 2018, installation, dimensions variable
Ground Floor Residents
Civan Özkanoğlu
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
Joiri Minaya
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
Kyoung eun Kang
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
Current Resident: Apr 1, 2022–Mar 31, 2023
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
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
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
Civan Özkanoğlu
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
James Beckett
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
Kyoung eun Kang
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
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2022–Mar 31, 2023
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
Oriane Stender
Oriane Stender’s current work is a hybrid of painting and weaving. She is drawn to weaving for conceptual, historical, aesthetic, and visceral reasons. Building structure and surface concurrently, line by line and weft by weft, is a grounding practice, one with great integral strength. Weaving is an ancient technology, the basis for many modern innovations – most notably the computer – and is still happening, from the studios of individual makers through the most complex industrial settings, and points all along the way.
Oriane Stender has exhibited work at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Temporary Art Manto, Mantua, Italy; and Lehman College Art Gallery, New York among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2022 Spring Open Studios
April 22–April 23, 2022
Oriane Stender, Watermelon Candy, 2021, airbrush ink on cotton/silk, handwoven, 34 × 28 in. (86.36 × 71.12 cm)
Oriane Stender, Flowers 2 (red on green), 2021, airbrush ink on cotton/silk, handwoven, 34 × 28 in. (86.36 × 71.12 cm)
Oriane Stender, untitled (radiating rings), 2021, airbrush ink on cotton, silk, handwoven, 34 × 28 in. (86.36 × 71.12 cm)
Oriane Stender, untitled (wonky rings on orange), 2021, airbrush ink on cotton, silk, handwoven, 38 × 28 in. (96.52 × 71.12 cm)
Oriane Stender, untitled (pink, green rings on orange), 2021, airbrush ink on cotton, silk, handwoven, 34 × 26 in. (86.36 × 66.04 cm)
Ground Floor Residents
Civan Özkanoğlu
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
James Beckett
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
Joiri Minaya
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