Current Resident: Dec 1, 2020–May 31, 2021
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
Studio #301
Artist
Daniel Ramos
Daniel Ramos creates 3-dimensional sculptures, large-scale collages, and mixed media installations. Early on in his career, Ramos decided that the people in his life–family, friends, co-workers–would be the subjects of his work. He uses photography as a vehicle to amplify their presence in the world, and has recently began moving beyond the single image convention of picture making.
Daniel Ramos has exhibited work at Artpace San Antonio and Center for Photography at Woodstock, among others.
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Daniel Ramos, The Land of Illustrious Men, 2020, installation view at Artspace, San Antonio.
Daniel Ramos, How Many Generations Does It Take To Be Treated As A Human Being?, 2020, collage made with silver gelatin prints and inkjet prints on various Mohawk papers.
Daniel Ramos, The Land of Illustrious Men, 2020, installation view at Artspace, San Antonio.
Daniel Ramos, Pilo In Leaves, 2016, photography.
Daniel Ramos, My Mother, My Father and Uncle Ramiro On The Way To Monterrey, 2000, photography.
Residents from United States
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2021–Jun 30, 2021
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Studio #304
Artist
Maria D. Rapicavoli
Maria D. Rapicavoli works across film, photography, and site- specific installation. Her work explores conditions of power, alienation, invisibility, and displacement through a critique of global economic and political systems. Drawing on her native Sicily as a place of departure and arrival, Rapicavoli explores the sea and the sky as sites of transit where individual narratives intersect with international politics. She seeks to make tangible the ways structures of power, taking place out of sight, impact our everyday lives
Maria D. Rapicavoli has exhibited work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Palazzo Reale, Milan; and Whitechapel Gallery, London, among others.
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2014NCTM e l'arte
Maria D. Rapicavoli, The Other: A Familiar Story, 2020, two channel video installation, 19:40 min.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, If I am In Pieces Is It Easier To See?, 2020, handmade glazed white ceramic.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, I Due Mari (The Two Seas), 35 handmade glazed ceramic vases, sea water, dimensions variable.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, A Starry Messenger, 2019, hand-carved white alabaster, glass lenses, transparency film, plexiglass, steel, 8 × 2 × 41/2 in. (20.32 × 5.08 × 11.43 cm).
Maria D. Rapicavoli, Crooked Incline, 2018, 100 porcelain pieces, plastic strings, dimensions variable.
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2020–Jun 30, 2021
Toby Devan Lewis
Studio #305
Artist
Pamela Council
Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic she refers to as BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined and under-valued narratives.
Pamela Council has exhibited work at Studio Museum in Harlem; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and African American Museum in Philadelphia; among others.
Pamela Council, Red Drink: A BLAXIDERMY Juneteenth Offering, 2018, concrete, fiberglass, and Big Red Soda, 144 × 120 × 120 in. (365.76 × 304.8 × 304.8 cm).
Pamela Council, BLAXIDERMY Pink, 2019, Lusters Pink Lotion, spinning oral sex toy, chocolate fondue fountain, rhinestones, paint, runner rug, carpet, and framed silicone on panel.
Pamela Council, wtf is juice/gw smile, 2016, sugar, water, purple, Listerine, George Washington's raggedy ass slaves' teeth dentures, gold party foil, Grapeade cans, lights, fountain, and silk velvet with surface devoured by the artist, 65 × 100 × 48 in. (165.1 × 254 × 121.92 cm).
Pamela Council, Swag Surf (Suite), ongoing.
Pamela Council, Fountain of Your Youth, 2017, plastic pony beads, motor, plastic, fabric, optic yellow tennis ball felt, pool noodles, nylon, and sneaker rubber.
