Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Gerit Christiani, North Rhine-Westphalian State Chancellery
Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. resists the temptation of a surrogate bureaucratic definition of art, and it is due to the unsharpness and unidentifiability of her selection system that she gets the chance to direct our attention away from media pictures towards her own personality. Having to ask ourselves inevitably in view of her works according to what principle they are combined and exhibited, we admit to ourselves that we cannot identify with the artist on a conscious or on a subconscious level. Her personality remains a mystery to us… (Excerpt from A Private View by Boris Groys)
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Tamara K.E.. Courtesy of the artist.
Past Resident2011: Creative Australia
Marian Drew
Marian Drew ‘s work focuses on the hybridisation of drawing and photography through studies in the studio, darkroom and landscape working to develop a language that acknowledges the dynamic relationship between photographer and subject exploited through extended exposure times. The constrained gesture of the photographer becomes interactive working to make the photograph in front of the lens. Drew reorientates and questions contemporary frameworks of history, place and the domestic.
Marian Drew is Associate Professor in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. She graduated from the Canberra School of Art and was awarded a German Government Scholarship studying Experimental Photography, at Kassel University. Since then she has held 25 solo exhibitions in Australia, the United States, France and Germany and contributed to over forty curatorial shows in Australia, China, Taiwan, Germany and the United States. She represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial in 1992 and her first monograph was published in 2006 by the Queensland Centre for Photography.
Marian Drew, Wombat And Watermelon, 2005, Inkjet print, 35 × 43 in. (88.9 × 109.22 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Crow With Salt, 2003, Ink jet photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Emu With Two Drawn Bowls, 2009, Inkjet photograph. Courtesy of the artist.
Marian Drew, Lorikeet With Green Cloth, 2006, Ink jet photograph, 35 × 43 in. (88.9 × 109.22 cm).
Past Resident2010: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai)
Jiandyin are interdisciplinary collaborative artists from Thailand. Pornpilai Meemalai received her MA from School of Applied Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK. Jiradej Meemalai received his MFA (Sculpture) from Faculty of Decorative Arts, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Pornpilai is a 2008 recipient of Silp Bhirasri Creativity Grant of Silpakorn University, Thailand. Jiradej was awarded several competitions including 46th National Art Competition, 2000 and the Kasikorn Bank Group Contemporary Art Competitions, 2000. He was artist in residence at Art Omi International Art Center, 2008. They received a fellowship grant award from the Asian Cultural Council, New York and they were artists-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. Jiandyin have participated in The Penang Island Sculpture Project, Penang Island, Malaysia and Art Live World, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, New York and will have a solo exhibition at Kokoro Studio, San Francisco, California.
Through their married life they discovered artistic value while searching for resolution for their disputes. Their works are models for looking at the tension in human relationships. They also project an awareness of ‘living together as an adaptation’ in the rapidly globalizing world that we live in. In 2010, they began a participation project called Dialogue. It is an ongoing collaborative drawing of Thai / Thai American couples who live in United States.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Sinking sculpture, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), On Adaptation, 2010. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Holding a Balance, 2009. Courtesy of the artist.
Jiandyin (Jiradej & Pornpilai Meemalai), Self Portrait, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Thailand
Bundith Phunsombatlert
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, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
2013
