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Current Resident: Mar 1, 2022–Jul 31, 2022

Studio #302

Ying Chiun Lee

Ying Chiun Lee is a glass and film artist whose process-driven work investigates human sexuality. Her practice focuses on the subtle details and movements of glass during its making. By utilizing these observations, she creates glass sculptures, installations, performances, and videos that speak on the fantasy of intimacy.

Ying Chiun Lee has exhibited work at GMTF Film Festival, Lybster; City Art Space and Joy Gallery, both Rochester, among others.

yingchiunleeglass.com

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

This piece of work portrays my experience of living through the pandemic as a foreigner in the US. The video consists of two scenes; The first scene is a view through the bottom of the glass tank. Catching the moment of molten glass dropped into the water and broke within several macro-explosions. The second part of the scene is an uranium glass object with gold leaf scattered on the top. Then two amorphous blobs of hot glass come into the frame. They dance around the object seductively. The audio is composed of a mixture of electronic sounds, news broadcasts regarding Covid, and cicada sounds from rural Taiwan.

Ying Chiun Lee, Home?, 2021, single-channel video, 1:32 min

Ecstasy is a slow-motion video of molten glass. In the scene, the background is dark while the glass is illuminating the surrounding with heat. The molten glass on the end of a rod is turning slowly. The speed of the turning is not fast enough to keep the glass from falling. A wooden paddle comes into the frame from the left, slapping and pushing the glass from dropping. When the glass and wood meet, the heat burns the wood thus creating sparks. Sometimes the wooden pat stays longer on the glass, gently lifting the weight of the glass. As the two materials touch, the heat begins to light up the wooden paddle, creating a bigger flame than the sparks. The video is accompanied by the background sound of white waves crashing on shores.

Ying Chiun Lee, Ecstasy, 2020, single-channel video, 1:11 min

Seduction is a short film. The video switches between two scenes. One scene focuses on the surface of the leaf while another focuses on the stem of the leaf. In both parts, a borosilicate glass lingers around the leaf, turning constantly from falling. When the glass gets closer to the subject, the heat dries out its moisture. During the interaction, the vapor process makes the leaf move up and down. This video comes with the background sounds of human breathing and bed sheet rustling.

Ying Chiun Lee, Seduction, 2021, single-channel video, 1 min

The Teahouse is an installation with found objects, glass, and video projections. The piece is approximately the size of a three feet cube. It was set up in the City Art Space in downtown Rochester. On the site, the installation was surrounded by four layers of white sheers hanging down from the ceiling. On the white sheer fabric, a short film was projected. With the translucency of this material, the film projects through one fabric to the other side, casting a blurred image of the video. In between each fabric, there was a gap that allowed people to walk into the installation. Inside the white cube, there were nine white low pedestals. Eight of them had objects or words on them, and only the one in the middle remained empty. These were the objects that were shown in the video.

Ying Chiun Lee, The Tea House, 2021, mixed media, 42 × 42 × 42 in. (106.68 × 106.68 × 106.68 cm)

In this picture, a person is sitting on the toilet, hands holding a cell phone. A heavy glass object is rested on the gap between the two legs. This object has a rough texture on the outside that looks like rocks. On the inside, it seems smooth and glossy. The side that is facing up has an opening that shows the object is neither solid nor filled. The intimate connection between the object and skin is actually cold, heavy and rough.

Ying Chiun Lee, Living with a Hole , 2021, photographic print, 45 × 53 in. (114.3 × 134.62 cm)

Residents from Taiwan

Alice Nien-Pu Ko

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Studio #210

Yi Kuo

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2022

Erica Yu-Wen Huang

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2020

Chile

Current Resident: Apr 1, 2022–Jul 31, 2022

Beca Arte, CCU - Corporación Cultural La Araucana

Studio #303

Artist

Maria Gabler

María Gabler creates site-specific installations that criticize the places into which they intervene, based on the observation of constructive and architectural characteristics of each individual location, as well as their historical and cultural context. Through her works she interrupts the inner codes and structures that determine the way we relate with spaces. The materials and techniques used by her are generally linked to the field of construction: lumber, OSB, iron, and expanded polystyrene, among others.

María Gabler has exhibited at Galería Gabriela Mistral; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo; and Sala de Arte CCU, all Santiago, Chile, among others.

mariagabler.com

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Maria Gabler, La Galería, 2017, OSB, lumber, steel framing, and glass, 512 × 512 × 157¹/₂ in. (1300.48 × 1300.48 × 400.05 cm)

Maria Gabler, La Ventana, 2022, Lumber and asphalt roofing felt, 511¹³/₁₆ × 236 × 157³/₈ in. (1299.97 × 599.44 × 399.8 cm)

Maria Gabler, Anfibia, 2021, Wood, polyethylene, water, sand and rocks, 393¹¹/₁₆ × 393¹¹/₁₆ in. (1000 × 1000 cm)

Maria Gabler, Ad Portas, 2019, Polished and vitrified floor, 78 × 59 in. (198.12 × 149.86 cm)

Maria Gabler, La Galería, 2017, OSB, lumber, steel framing, and glass, 512 × 512 × 157¹/₂ in. (1300.48 × 1300.48 × 400.05 cm)

Residents from Chile

Nicolás Grum

Chile

Beca Arte, CCU - Corporación Cultural La Araucana

2010

Catalina Bauer

Chile

Beca Arte, CCU - Corporación Cultural La Araucana

2018

Andrés Durán

Chile

Beca Arte, CCU - Corporación Cultural La Araucana

2016

Italy

Current Resident: Apr 1, 2022–May 31, 2022

Italian Cultural Institute of New York

Studio #304

Artist

Agostino Iacurci

Agostino Iacurci works with a wide range of media, including painting, wall-painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation. He creates immersive spaces to transform the perception of given environments. Starting from specific topics like the use of colors in the ancient and classical world, he questions issues of traditions and identity, investigating the process of idealization underlying historical myths and their impact on the collective imagination.

Agostino Iacurci has exhibited work at Civic Museum of Palazzo Mosca, Pesaro; Macro, Rome; Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City, among others.

agostinoiacurci.com