Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Winsor & Newton
So Yoon Lym
So Yoon Lym likens her practice to the art of Taekwondo. She believes that making art is a philosophical commitment, similar to Taekwondo whose tenants are “courtesy, integrity, perseverance, patience, self-discipline and invincibility of spirit”.
So Yoon Lym (born 1967 in Seoul, Korea) moved to Uganda in 1967 until the age of 7. She came to live in Northern New Jersey in 1974, where she currently resides. Lym pursued her studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a BFA in Painting and then at Columbia University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 1991. Since then, she has exhibited her work at the United States Embassy in Djibouti, Centro Provincal de Artes Plastica y Disenos in Santiago, Cuba, Coreana Museum in Seoul, Korea, Studio Museum of Harlem, International Print Center New York, Paterson Museum and the Newark Museum, among many other places.
So Yoon Lym, Jhonathan, 2010, Acrylic on paper, 22 × 30 in. (55.88 × 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2015: Joan Mitchell Foundation
Norah Lovell
Norah Lovell’s work includes small-scale figurative, narrative paintings on paper and panel, rendered in pencil, gouache, and casein. Densely layered and detailed, visually and thematically complex, they have the look of Persian miniatures, or French wallpaper with unexpected, surreal details. Her recent large scale-works represent a kind of history painting through a feminist lens, replete with battle scenes, animal fables and an unfolding ghost story that pays homage to forgotten female painters.
Norah Lovell (b. New York City) received her MFA from the University of Chicago and BFA from the University of New Mexico. Residing in New Orleans since 2008, she was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Center grant and studio residency in 2013-14. Her work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her recent work was on view at ArtPrize 2014 at the Grand Rapids Art Museum and she was included in multiple Propsect New Orleans venues in 2014-15.
Norah Lovell, BONO: Last Act Sharp Knife, 2015, Gouache on panel, 48 × 36 in. (121.92 × 91.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2015: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani
Shahidi Marnani’s recent work aims to facilitate dialogue concerning the issue of time. She employs alternative methods to create dialogue through the medium of text and video, applying the specifications of time-based media.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani was born in Isfahan, Iran and she lives and works in Tehran. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and her BFA from The Tehran University in 2007. She has shown her work at The Print Shop, MoMA PS1, New York; Thomas Erben Gallery, New York; Devi Art Foundation, India; Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran; design transfer gallery (UDK), Berlin; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts, Iran; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; PØST, Los Angeles; and Regina Rex, New York.
Zeinab Shahidi Marnani, Soliloquy III'' Part 3: ''Where the Stars Go'' by Marzena Sowa, 2013, Video documentary, 39:15 min. Courtesy of the artist.
