Past Residents
Past Resident2023: 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 Ruscha2023: 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
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
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)
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
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
Kyoung eun Kang, Partners, 2008, video still of a performance-based single channel video, 12:58 min
Kyoung eun Kang, Omaha Diary I, 2016, three-channel video installation, 63min
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
Past Resident2023: The Kettering Family Foundation
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
Levon Kafafian, The Summoner, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, The Summoner, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, Vanagad, the Obsidian Spirit, 2021, fiber and media, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, Once There Was, Once There Wasn't, 2019, fiber and media, installation, dimensions variable
Levon Kafafian, Rite of Wild Magic, 2020, fiber, 12 × 72 in. (30.48 × 182.88 cm)
Residents from United States
Past Resident2023: Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation
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.
Akshay Sethi, What is Dangerous, 2018, ink on paper and photocopies, 11 × 8 in. (27.94 × 20.32 cm)
Akshay Sethi, Bura mat Dekho, Bura mat Suno, Bura mat Bolo, 2018, ink on Indian Railway tickets, 3 × 1 in. (7.62 × 2.54 cm)
Akshay Sethi, Situational Irony of a Stick, 2020, watercolor on paper and stickers, 11 × 8 in. (27.94 × 20.32 cm)
Akshay Sethi, The man and the Rattrap, 2018, charcoal pencil on paper, 8 × 5 in. (20.32 × 12.7 cm)
Akshay Sethi, Mootri, 2018, ink on paper, 8 × 5 in. (20.32 × 12.7 cm)
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