Past Residents

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Past Resident
2019: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Artist

Sophy Naess

Sophy Naess is a multimedia artist based in New Haven who works with painting, printmaking, weaving, and writing.

Sophy Naess has exhibited work at 321 Gallery, Brooklyn; 17ESSEX, New York; and Växjö Konsthall, Sweden, among others. She is a lecturer in the Painting and Printmaking program at Yale University School of Art, and Director of Chateau d’Eau, an exhibition platform for artist designed fragrances.

Sophy Naess, Untitled (To Plumb), 2017, handwoven cotton fiber, 68 × 96 in. (172.72 × 243.84 cm)

Sophy Naess, Slow Thing, 2018, handwoven silk and cotton fiber, 98 × 120 in. (248.92 × 304.8 cm)

Sophy Naess, Jämtlands Giverny, 2018, handwoven cotton fiber, 180 × 108 in. (457.2 × 274.32 cm)

Sophy Naess, All The Things You Are, 2017, oil, acrylic, gouache, and paper on canvas, 13 x 11 each

Sophy Naess, a Tergo, 2016, handwoven silk and cotton fiber, 130 × 96 in. (330.2 × 243.84 cm)

Residents from United States

Ina Gerken

Germany, United States

RYAN LEE Gallery

Studio #302

Alice Wang

United States, Canada

Canada Council for the Arts, Capsule Shanghai

Studio #213

Frank WANG Yefeng

United States, China

ISCP Alumni Fund

Studio #303

Canada

Past Resident
2019: Canada Council for the Arts

Artist

Matilda Aslizadeh

Matilda Aslizadeh deploys a dense visual language positioned between photography, video, sculpture and animation to evoke the complexity and saturation of contemporary media landscapes. Her video installations draw on a large array of visual influences – both esoteric and popular – to rethink narrative structures that persist in Western culture and its global impact. Her current project interrogates the agency of the economy under neoliberalism through the lens of a horror film.

Matilda Aslizadeh has exhibited work at Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada; Art Souterrain, Montreal; and Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Matilda Aslizadeh and belit sağ

July 2, 2019, 6:30–8pm

Matilda Aslizadeh, Resort, 2016, video installation

Matilda Aslizadeh, Moly and Kassandra, 2018, video installation

Residents from Canada

Alice Wang

United States, Canada

Canada Council for the Arts, Capsule Shanghai

Studio #213

Antonietta Grassi

Canada

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

2024

Stanley Wany

Ase (pronounced “ah-sheh”; also spelled ashe) Yoruba words often have multiple meanings: Ase is generally defined as “the power to make things happen” and also refers to the spiritual life force that flows through things, much like the Chinese concept of chi. Deepening the exploration of my relationship with my ancestors, Ase, a drawing that measures almost two meters high by three meters long. For this piece, charcoal, a medium with archaic roots, is used to evoke powerful waves crowned by troubled sky. Towards the bottom of the drawings, the waves melt into abstraction, dripping onto the white surface of the paper. The title Ase, referring to Yoruba culture, embodies my ongoing relationship with my ancestors, those who perished in the sea as well as those with whom known ties have been cut by the transatlantic slavetrade. When creating this work, I also reflected on what it meant to be Black in the Americas and how my identity had been defined by the dominant society. I turned to the writings of Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon as well as of Edouard Glissant, whose concept of “creolisation” serves as a focal point in my practice going forward.

Canada

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Studio #222

Turkey, The Netherlands

Past Resident
2019: ISCP Alumni Fund
2016: SAHA Association

Artist

belit sağ

belit sağ’s ongoing artistic and moving image practice largely focuses on the role of visual representations in the experience and perception of political conflicts and violence in Turkey, Germany, and the Netherlands. Recent works include a video piece that centers around the concepts and practices of conserving, conversing, absences and re-enactment.

belit sağ’swork has been exhibited in international art spaces including PEER UK and LUX, London; EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam; and documenta 14, Kassel, among others.