Past Residents

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Past Resident
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
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

Artist

Kyoung eun Kang

Kyoung eun Kang’s work focuses on the small, simple everyday gestures and rituals that we tend to see as mundane, but have great significance. She captures subtle human interactions and behaviors to better understand human nature and the bonds between us–bonds that bridge time and space to connect couples, families, communities, strangers, and even the dead. Using an interdisciplinary approach, she explores geographical and cultural identity as well as universal human themes such as affection and attachment.

Kyoung eun Kang has exhibited at A.I.R. gallery, Brooklyn; The Korean Cultural Center, Washington D.C.; and Collar Works, Troy among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

Care Package: A Performance Series by Kyoung eun Kang

January 24, 2023, 6-7pm

Kyoung eun Kang: Every Morning, Every Evening

December 13, 2022–February 2, 2023

2022 Fall Open Studios

November 18–November 19, 2022

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

This performance was made in the former studio of the late American painter Elizabeth Murray. Using my body as a medium through which to channel and revive Murray’s studio space, I gradually developed a choreography of actions and movements repeated as a daily ritual.

Kyoung eun Kang, TRACES: 28 Days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio, 2020, performance photograph, kodak endura luster photo print mounted on mat-board, 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm)

exhibition view at Collar Works, Troy, NY. TRACES: 28 Days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio is a multimedia installation focused on a durational performance in response to the former studio of the late American painter Elizabeth Murray. The exhibition includes a 5 hour-long video that captures the full scope of my daily performance, a series of photographs depicting discrete choreographic gestures from the durational performance, watercolor drawings replicating marks in Murray’s studio, and displayed objects that belonged to Elizabeth Murray.

Kyoung eun Kang, TRACES: 28 Days in Elizabeth Murray’s Studio, 2020, multimedia installation, a video shown in three segments, photographs, studio objects that belonged to the late American painter Elizabeth Murray

exhibition view at NURTUREart, NY. The works are inspired by family's jokes, care packages sent by my mother from Korea and hidden family stories. Through this exhibition I create an interplay between sound and text, mystery and humor, in order to examine family relationships, separation and bonding.

Kyoung eun Kang, 1402 Seok-Dong, 2017, family poems, Korean dried anchovies, photographs, hand made ceramic sculptures, a Korean chamber pot, a sound installation and a floor installation

In “Partners,” dressed all in red, I approach strangers in Union Square Park in New York City at a very close distance, and mimic their gestures and postures without any verbal interaction. By forcing an interaction with them, I explore the fluidity between intimacy and separation, connection and isolation.

Kyoung eun Kang, Partners, 2008, video still of a performance-based single channel video, 12:58 min

exhibition view at BRIC project room, Brooklyn, NY. This three-channel installation observes the rituals of a 90-year-old couple living in Omaha, Nebraska and reveals the growing interpersonal relationship between the couple and myself. Taken over several months, I capture the subtle beauty of human encounters and cultural translation, embracing dynamic actions that resonate in the human experience, such as walking, breathing, eating and gathering.

Kyoung eun Kang, Omaha Diary I, 2016, three-channel video installation, 63min

Ground Floor Residents

Sarah Zapata

Large-scale installation compromised of textiles.

United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, 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, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation

Ground Floor

Sasha Wortzel

water meanders through a sawgrass marsh beneath a blue sky and clouds

United States

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, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso

Ground Floor

Simon Liu

Hong Kong, United States

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, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Ground Floor

United States

Past Resident
2023: The Kettering Family Foundation

Artist

Levon Kafafian

Levon Kafafian is a Detroit-based Armenian-American artist working primarily with textile. Through weaving Kafafian assembles narrative threads of costume, artifact, ritual and installation into stories about possible worlds and potential futures. Their woven fabrics become portals to these other worlds, generating writing that influences future work. They infuse their stories and cloth with future ancestral practice, hybridity and magic, often collaborating toward collective visions.

Levon Kafafian has exhibited work at Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; and Arab American National Museum, all in Michigan, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Spring Open Studios

April 21–April 22, 2023

A hooded, cloaked figure stands ready for action in front of a burgundy backdrop, holding a forked wooden staff toward the viewer. The figure wears a handwoven cloak with a diamond weave pattern in a reddish-pruple and black textured patterning, with a bejeweled black clasp and a horizontal striped silk tunic in multiple hues of green and black, striped handwoven pants and waistband in black and green, with assorted woven patches at the waist. They also wear an iridescent leather fanny pack adorned with evil eye pendants and a bead-encrusted face veil with purple and green beaded fringe.

Levon Kafafian, The Summoner, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable

A cloaked figure is depicted torso-up with face obscured by a large draped hood and a face veil encrusted with beads, edged with evil eyes and beaded fringe in green and purple. The figure wears a handwoven cloak with a diamond weave pattern in a reddish-pruple and black textured patterning, with a bejeweled black clasp and a horizontal striped silk tunic in multiple hues of green and black.

Levon Kafafian, The Summoner, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable

Two figures pose in front of an ethereally lit black and silver backdrop. Both figures wear variations of the same costume, including beaded face veils, a leather strap-spider web necklace with chain and beads, corset tops with beaded trim, and studded details, wide draped sleeves, handwoven skirts in repeating geometric patterns and leather paneled aprons, studded in patterns echoing geometric rug motifs. They are clad in all black and silver and both hold a thread taut between their hands.

Levon Kafafian, Vanagad, the Obsidian Spirit, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable

A figure dressed in various green handwoven and found fabrics, reminiscent of Southwest Asian traditional clothing peers into a demitasse coffee cup to ascertain the future. She sits within a living room installation in emerald and rust tones behind a table set with small oranges, parsley, sesame candies, hand-knotted doilies and decorative brass vessels.

Levon Kafafian, Once There Was, Once There Wasn't, 2019, fiber and media, installation, dimensions variable

A figure wears a handwoven scarf in radioactive lime green and a reddish purple, woven in a boundweave structure to create large geometric motifs. There is a detail inset image highlighting the pattern and shows the center section of the scarf is an extended repeat similar to a glitched image.

Levon Kafafian, Rite of Wild Magic, 2020, fiber, 12 × 72 in. (30.48 × 182.88 cm)

Residents from United States

Frank WANG Yefeng

United States, China

ISCP Alumni Fund

Studio #303

Efrat Hakimi

A table top arrangement of paper, cutout images, ephemera, and tools used in bookbinding.

United States

Artis

Studio #301

Bryan Fernandez

United States

The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund

Studio #216

India

Past Resident
2023: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation

Artist

Akshay Sethi

Akshay Sethi’s practice takes a mundane approach to exploring the relationship between the personal and the political. He focuses on unnoticed, trivial and repetitive actions of daily life to create works that foster everyday encounters and public spaces.

Akshay Sethi has exhibited work at the 2019 Serendipity Arts Festival; 1Shanthiroad; and India Art Fair, all in India, among others.