Past Residents
Past Resident2017: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Jia-Jen Lin
Jia-Jen Lin creates images of the human body and its surroundings as a reflection of our psyche. Drawing from personal experience and observations, Lin uses sculpture integrated with photography, video, and performance to portray the ongoing negotiation between our latent desires and the manipulated realities in which we find ourselves. Hybrid cultures, shifting identities, and the relationships between our physicality and psychology are subjects Lin has investigated since 2004. Her recent projects explore the processes of catastrophic losses and how moderations of memories allow us to adapt to change.
Jia-Jen Lin is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. Lin attended National Taiwan Normal University for a BFA in Western Painting and received her MFA in sculpture, installation, and multimedia from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lin has participated in artist residencies at L’Estruch, Sabadell, Spain; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Exhibitions include Queens International 4, Queens Museum; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, South Korea; Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei; and Manufractura, Hangar Art, Barcelona. She has received grants from several United States organizations including Sculpture Space, Franconia Sculpture Park, and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Jia-Jen Lin, Bread, Steel, and Benjamin Moore-Personal Security Fence, 2016, C-Print, 30 × 20 in. (76.2 × 50.8 cm).
Jia-Jen Lin, Sewing 18 Sweaters, 2012, Archival digital prints, Dimensions variable.
Jia-Jen Lin, Sweeping the Earth with Wings Made of Rusty Knives, 2010, Live performance and sculpture, Dimensions variable.
Jia-Jen Lin, Manufracture Series: Steel and Benjamin Moore, 2016, Stainless steel fence, C-Print, paint, painting tools and accessories, wooden pedestal, frame, and live performance, Dimensions variable.
Jia-Jen Lin, The Archival Body, 2015, Sculpture, photography, video, Dimensions variable.
Past Resident2017: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Ling-lin Ku
Ling-lin Ku hybridizes language and daydreaming in her sculptures and installations, weaving her sense of humor into the structure she makes. Using everyday objects as references, she digs deep inside them creating transformative relationships and new modes of interconnectivity. She always sees objects as being unfixed, plastic, liquid and slippery, and resists the habit of using a single static name to denominate things. Her plays between faux and “real” materials, and exaggerated scale shifts, give her work a feeling of deceptive mass, strange gravity and unknown physics.
Ling-lin Ku (born Taiwan) completed her undergraduate degree at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts. She was the recipient of travel grants for locations along what used to be referred to as the Silk Road in Asia and Europe. Ku also obtained a law degree law in Taiwan before relocating to the United States.
Ling-lin Ku, In A Relationship, 2016, Mixed media installation, 86 × 60 × 10 in. (218.44 × 152.4 × 25.4 cm).
Ling-lin Ku, Daydreaming, 2015, Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable.
Ling-lin Ku, Bedroom Fantasy, 2016, Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable.
Ling-lin Ku, After Morning, 2017, Mixed media installation, 45 × 60 × 10 in. (114.3 × 152.4 × 25.4 cm). Photo by Terry Brown.
Residents from United States
Ailyn Lee
Studio #210
Angel Lartigue
Studio #217
Past Resident2017: Danish Arts Foundation
Honey Biba Beckerlee
Honey Biba Beckerlee’s practice revolves around the belief that images co-produce our view of the world and the way we relate to each other. Through installation art she aims to push the visual medium to the point where it challenges our perception of reality. Her work revolves around how images may challenge the idea of a coherent objective reality and other singular paradigms, such as the principle of originality, individualism and anthropocentrism.
Honey Biba Beckerlee (born 1978) obtained an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is research-based and theoretically informed, with a keen interest in Quantum Theory, animism and materialism.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2017
April 21–April 22, 2017
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Cat State, 2014, Installation.
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Chromatic Aberration, 2015, Installation.
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Atom Dukh, 2016, Aquatint prints and copper printing plates.
Honey Biba Beckerlee, Genesis of a Pixel - A Tragedy in Three Acts, 2015, Installation.
