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Greece

Past Resident
2023: ARTWORKS

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Sofia Stevi

Sofia Stevi is an artist living and working in Athens. Her paintings depict flowing interpretations of materiality in a universe where dreams are a construct of everyday experiences, bodies are in flux, chance takes on permanent substance, and time and space collide.

Sofia Stevi has exhibited work at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; Onassis Foundation Stegi, Greece; and The Benaki Museum, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world)
Sofia Stevi, The Guardian, 2023, acrylics on cotton fabric, wall painting, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world), 2023, three double sided paintings, acrylic on cotton fabric, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, Song without an ending, 2022, ink and actylic on cotton fabric, handpainted cotton and leatherette pillows, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, Turning forty winks into a decade, 2017-2018, mixed media, dimensions variable
Sofia Stevi, Spine Books (Skoliosis 004, Skoliosis 002, Kyphosis 001), 2009, mould-made cotton paper and thread, dimensions variable

Residents from Greece

Antonis Pittas

Greece, The Netherlands
Mondriaan Fund
Studio #219

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Warp, video installation, mixed media, variable duration, 2022. Co-commissioned and co-produced by LIAF and TBA21 Academy. Developed in the context of a residency on the research vessel Helmer Hanssen. View at Fantasmagoriana, LIAF 2022, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi.
Photo Kjell-Ove Storvik. C.sy the Artist

Italy, Greece
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture
Studio #217

Iria Vrettou

‘Daemonic Ecran Vivant’ is a moving portrait based on the concept of Tableau Vivant. The piece operates on specific hand drawn animated loops. The emphasis is placed on the movement of bodies, human, non-human, and more-than-human. It investigates how such movements can be perceived as dance for various concepts & species and the atmospheres that these create. If we consider life cycles as an expression of symbiosis then we can easily discern a ritual of perpetual transformation: the choreography of life. Image #2
Greece
ARTWORKS
2022
United States

Past Resident
2023: Vision Fund

Artist

Miatta Kawinzi

Miatta Kawinzi is a Kenyan-Liberian-American multidisciplinary artist working with sculptural installation, still and moving images, the voice and body, gesture, language, objects, space and sound to explore practices of re-imagining the self, identity, place, and culture through abstraction and poetics. Their work engages interior and exterior landscapes to illuminate themes of inter-connectivity, hybridity, diaspora, and queered temporalities. Kawinzi’s practice is informed by embodied research and an investment in the language of gesture as an expressive tool.

Miatta Kawinzi has exhibited work at PS122 Gallery; The Africa Center; and CUE Art Foundation, all in New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Miatta Kawinzi and Alicia Grullón
November 28, 2023, 6–8pm
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Four black-and-white photographic prints on fabric are hung from the ceiling; they show a Black figure in various poses of reaching.
Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the air might hold us, 2023, series, four photographic prints on fabric, dimensions variable
A black-and-white photograph with a Black figure with an outstretched arm standing between tall, dense trees.
Miatta Kawinzi, to trust the air might hold us, 2023, series, archival pigment print
A video projection of brown hands reaching downwards in front of a blue sky and sliver of a brick building is reflected on a silver mylar floor with three rocking chairs.
Miatta Kawinzi, SHE GATHER ME, 2021, HD color video, 16mm color film transferred to video with two-channel audio, three wooden rocking chairs and silver mylar floor, dimensions variable
A blue thin branching sculpture on the wall at left; at right, a video projection of a palm tree trunk rising out of water reflected on a mylar floor with three rocking chairs.
Miatta Kawinzi, Soft is Strong, 2021, installation view, CUE Art Foundation, New York
Thin lines of sculptural elastic criss-cross the gallery from wall to ceiling; a video projection through them shows a silhouetted figure with one arm gesturing outwards in hues of blue and gray.
Miatta Kawinzi, Libration, 2019, HD color video projection, four-channel sound, elastic and thread, dimensions variable

Residents from United States

Joshua Thaddeus Rainer

Painting of a dream the artist had years ago wherein he was trapped in a seemingly broken elevator that would not stop ascending.
United States
The Kettering Family Foundation
Studio #211

Yoshie Sakai

The
United States
Vision Fund
Studio #202

Vincent Chong

A public performance in Manhattan Chinatown's Columbus Park for both my Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander community and the elders who spend time in that park. Black dress by Shawna Wu. Wig by Paul Keo. Green cape sewn and stoned by the Artist.
United States
Celebrate the Studio
2024
United States

Past Resident
2023: Vision Fund

Artist

Alicia Grullón

Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon’s social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of underinvested communities in political and social spheres. She is a Moore College of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College.

Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Miatta Kawinzi and Alicia Grullón
November 28, 2023, 6–8pm
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
Alicia Grullón, March 31, 2020: Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 30 in. (152.4 × 76.2 cm)
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
April 13, 2020: NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
Alicia Grullón, May 4th, 2020: We call workers ‘essential’ – but is that just referring to the work, not the people?, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.
Alicia Grullón, May 8th, 2020: US Postal Service warns coronavirus pandemic threatens its survival, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)
Breaking News is a short video looking at the migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. Through the point of view of Jaquin Caal Maquin, the first child reported to have died while in ICE custody, I re-imagined her as the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees proposing new resolutions calling for no ICE presence, open borders and control of the UN by indigenous people of the global south and Western Hemisphere.
Alicia Grullón, Breaking News, 2019, single channel video, 4 min

Residents from United States

Joshua Thaddeus Rainer

Painting of a dream the artist had years ago wherein he was trapped in a seemingly broken elevator that would not stop ascending.
United States
The Kettering Family Foundation
Studio #211

Yoshie Sakai

The
United States
Vision Fund
Studio #202

Vincent Chong

A public performance in Manhattan Chinatown's Columbus Park for both my Queer and Trans Asian Pacific Islander community and the elders who spend time in that park. Black dress by Shawna Wu. Wig by Paul Keo. Green cape sewn and stoned by the Artist.
United States
Celebrate the Studio
2024