Past Residents
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Nicolas Grum (Chile) and Jiandyin (Thailand)
September 7, 2010
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
Bundith Phunsombatlert
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, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
2013
Past Resident2010: GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Jonggeon Lee
Jonggeon Lee’s sculptures and installations focus on both domestic and public architectural structures, such as staircases or historic monuments that have been displaced from their original contexts. In an effort to capture his experience of cultural displacement, he reproduces components of architectural structures that evoke both the time and space of its origins. He distorts and crops the decorative elements of domestic Colonial houses, reconfigures the scale and material of historic monuments, and combines historic architectural structures with everyday objects. In his work, he transforms architectural structures in order to dislodge them from their initial function of structure. As a result, in each of the pieces, time becomes fixed and isolated from its conventional cycle, creating memories of space.
Jonggeon Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA at Seoul National University. He has exhibited extensively in both in the United States and Korea. He has recently exhibited his work at Recess in New York, 808 Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, and Gelman Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island. He has attended several residencies such as the Vermont Studio Center and Chang-Dong National Art Studio and has received a number of grants and awards including the Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park and the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Grant.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Stefano Cagol (Italy) and Jonggeon Lee (South Korea)
August 24, 2010
Jonggeon Lee, A Stage, 2008, Wood and plaster, 40 × 8 × 40 in. (101.6 × 20.32 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, A Room Of A Room, 2007, Installation view, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, Always Remembered, 2008, Styrofoam and resin, 15 × 15 × 94 in. (38.1 × 38.1 × 238.76 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, Where I Am, 2006, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jonggeon Lee, Bulb, 2009, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from South Korea
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Past Resident2010: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Krüger & Pardeller
The objects of Krüger & Pardeller are perceived as constructive sculptures, architectural fragments or design objects. Due to tangible experience and deliberate ambiguity, viewers are encouraged to discover their own classifications and define the criteria for such distinctions consciously. Forms of presentation are questioned and the abstract, modular form is adopted as an interactive tool. Kruger & Pardeller are also curators and editors of Twilight Zone: Art Hits Design, and Undisciplined: The Phenomenon of Space in Art, Architecture and Design, Vienna/New York, 2008/2009.
Krüger & Pardeller. Courtesy of the artists.
Krüger & Pardeller. Courtesy of the artists.
