Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Meg-Multiforms, The Gallery Apart
Alice Schivardi
Alice Schivardi is interested in collecting stories and establishing human relationships, leading her toward a pursuit of the other as well as of the self. She focuses both on the natural and human condition, using technological and manual language. Schivardi’s work explores social phenomena and their logic, with a methodology that treasures the intimate exchange of micro-experiences. The threads of her “embroidery drawings” become a link between the artist and the stories, the artistic process and the finished artwork. Alice Schivardi lives and works in Rome.
Events & Exhibitions
Alice Schivardi: Wormholes
April 22–May 10, 2014
Alice Schivardi, Coccinelle, 2012, 32 pieces: embroidery drawings, curved glass, and resin frames. Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, A Imagine e Somiglianza (detail), 2012, Embroidered drawing, scotch and collage on acetate paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, Equazione Uno, 2012, Installation of six speakers, embroidered drawing, scotch and collage on acetate paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, Portable Bug Cemetery, 2013, Lawn, earth, and insects, 138 × 16 × 138 in. (350.52 × 40.64 × 350.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Alice Schivardi, Portable Bug Cemetery (detail), 2013, Lawn, earth, and insects, 138 × 16 × 138 in. (350.52 × 40.64 × 350.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Italy
Raffaela Naldi Rossano
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
2024
Past Resident2013: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Jr-Shin Luo
Jr-shin Luo’s works take a critical view of the inseparable connection with daily life, from extensive daily experiences to the loss and resistance of the body. He specializes in capturing the delicate moments or mistakes and tricks of the eye, then enlarges these conflicts and preposterous moments. Luo uses common, everyday objects and decontextualizes them to produce a different reality. From this alternative reality, the viewers connect to both the traces of the original object and the slight displacement from the origin.
Jr-shin Luo (born 1984, Taiwan) graduated from Taipei National University of Arts in 2010. His recent solo and group shows include From One to All, Ke-yuan Gallery, Taichung, 2012; The Shape of The Pockets, Nan-hai Gallery, Taipei, 2009; Taipei Arts Award, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, 2012; New York Travel Program, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2012 and New Work Project, Hong-gag Museum, Taipei, 2013. His works have been exhibited in Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, and the United States. Luo lives and works in Taipei.
Jr-Shin Luo, Water City - TFAM, 2012, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jr-Shin Luo, Water City - TFAM, 2012, Mixed media, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
Jr-Shin Luo, Even They Never Met, 2013, Mirror, glass, and watermelon, 391/4 × 193/4 × 193/4 in. (99.69 × 50.16 × 50.16 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jr-Shin Luo, The Banquet, 2013, Mixed media, 73/4 × 113/4 × 73/4 in. (19.68 × 29.84 × 19.68 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jr-Shin Luo, Come Me a Waterfall, 2011, Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Taiwan
Past Resident2012: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Ambie Abaño
Ambie Abaño’s shift from painting to printmaking brought her to an exploration of the medium as she investigates portraiture in relation to both material and process. From two-dimensional prints, her experimental works led to the creation of portraits and figures in sculpture, mixed media works, and installations, always with an element of traditional printmaking processes.
Ambie Abaño (born Manila 1967) abandoned the practice of architecture in favor of being a visual artist. She exhibits widely in the Philippines and across Asia. Abaño is a faculty member at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. For the past six years, she served as president of the Philippine Association of Printmakers and remains active in their training program. Her solo exhibitions include: SurFACE (2011); Sanctuaire des memoires (2012) at the Alliance Francaise de Manille, and TransFIGURATION at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2006). She participated in A/P: Analog Playground, Ateneo Art Gallery, Manila; The Speaking House, Kerala, India (2012); Asian International Art Exhibition (2007-2011), and Open Studios at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2011).
Ambie Abaño, Trapped, 2009, Stuffed prints on textile, 24 × 24 × 24 in. (60.96 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm).
Ambie Abaño, Prayer, 2009, Installation with woodcut on textile and plastic.
Ambie Abaño, Self Awareness, 2011, Oil painting and woodcut on phillippine mahogany, 72 × 60 in. (182.88 × 152.4 cm).
Ambie Abaño, Diaries, 2010, Woodcut on recycled wood carved into books.
