Past Residents
Past Resident2018: Creative Australia, Creative New Zealand
Jess Johnson
Jess Johnson’s drawings and installations are influenced by the intersections of language, science fiction, culture and technology. In her drawings, she depicts complex worlds that combine densely layered patterns, objects and figures within architectural settings. Johnson’s drawings are often displayed within constructed environments. Her recent video collaborations with Simon Ward have involved translating her drawings into animated videos and virtual reality, enabling audiences to have simulated experiences of her drawings.
Jess Johnson was born in Tauranga, New Zealand in 1979. After ten years of living and working in Melbourne, she relocated permanently to New York City in 2016. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Art Basel Hong Kong; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Centre CLARK, Montreal; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia; and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, New Zealand. She is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Darren Knight Gallery, Australia; and Ivan Anthony Gallery, New Zealand.
Jess Johnson, Milxyz Wae, 2016, Acrylic paint, pen, fibre tipped markers and gouache on paper, 29 × 3911/16 in. (73.66 × 100.84 cm)
Jess Johnson, Transkin, 2016, Acrylic paint, pen, fibre tipped markers and gouache on paper, 29 × 3911/16 in. (73.66 × 100.84 cm)
Jess Johnson, Worldweb Allthing, 2016, Acrylic paint, pen, fibre tipped markers and gouache on paper, 29 × 3911/16 in. (73.66 × 100.84 cm)
Jess Johnson, We Float, 2017, Acrylic paint, pen, fibre tipped markers and gouache on paper, 29 × 3911/16 in. (73.66 × 100.84 cm)
Past Resident2018: Celebrate the Studio
Maria Varona
Maria Varona has been making embroideries since childhood. Varona was taught the technique by her grandmother, that she then developed as her practice by creating comic strips embroideries. She uses this format as a method of constructing a narrative line that often explores existential inquietudes.
Maria Varona has exhibited work at BronxArtSpace, New York; Roberto Paradise, San Juan; and Mondo Bizarro: Arte & Comics, San Juan, amongst others.
Maria Varona, #6, 2013, embroidery
Maria Varona, El pescador, 2017, embroidery
Maria Varona, La pantera de Camito, 2014, embroidery
Maria Varona, El ratón, 2017, embroidery
Residents from United States
Past Resident2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Mathias Pöschl
In his research-based practice, Mathias Pöschl seeks to investigate the relation of visual culture and political agenda, generating ensembles of works by juxtaposing representations of historical incidences and realities in a wide range of media and materials. In an effort to hint at new insights into the basic conditions of what it means for a work of art to be called political, Pöschl tries to exploit the cognitive potential of contradictions and misreadings, employing dialectic approaches to arrive at, or suggest, new narratives.
Mathias Pöschl (born 1981, Vienna, Austria) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2008. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at institutions, galleries and art fairs including Leopold Museum, Vienna; 21er Haus – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna; The Armory Show, New York; Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Sotheby’s, Vienna; Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö; Frieze, London; Nya Perspectives, Västerås; Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna; as well as in various self-organized shows in temporary exhibition spaces around Austria.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(abandoned stage set for a black mass), 2016, installation, dimensions variable
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(supreme), 2013, inkjet print and paper, 35 × 50 in. (88.9 × 127 cm)
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(huey), 2011, graphite, paper, enamel, glass, and mdf, 16 × 24 in. (40.64 × 60.96 cm)
Mathias Pöschl, i'm every woman, 2014, installation, dimensions variable
Mathias Pöschl, o.t.(the ali in formalism), 2012, black chalk and paper, 28 × 20 in. (71.12 × 50.8 cm)
