Past Residents
Past Resident2020: Wallace Arts Trust
Imogen Taylor
Imogen Taylor’s practice seeks to illuminate the modernist painting movement’s embedded relationship with LGBTQ+ histories. Her reclamations of modernist tropes emerge on parallelogram shaped canvases to create a sense of disorientation for the viewer through queer phenomenology. Taylor believes that parallel to the physical act of painting, queerness functions as a medium activated by her body.
Imogen Taylor has exhibited work Hocken Collections, Dunedin; Michael Lett, Auckland; and The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, among others.
Imogen Taylor, Another Word For Abyss, 2019, acrylic on hessian, 47 × 94 in. (119.38 × 238.76 cm).
Imogen Taylor, Shit Guitarist, 2018, acrylic on hessian, 29 × 25 in. (73.66 × 63.5 cm).
Imogen Taylor, Ripe, 2019, acrylic on hessian, 47 × 47 in. (119.38 × 119.38 cm).
Imogen Taylor, Self Help, 2019, acrylic on hessian.
Imogen Taylor, Hooded Violet, 2019, acrylic on hessian, 18 × 17 in. (45.72 × 43.18 cm).
Residents from New Zealand
Past Resident2020: Galerie Templon
Omar Ba
Omar Ba’s paintings represent political and social motifs that are open to multiple interpretations. His artistic vocabulary raises historical and timeless questions while formulating a wholly contemporary artistic message. Ba’s iconography features personal metaphors, ancestral references and hybrid figures. In his work, he seeks to express his subconscious and symbolic interpretation of the real.
Omar Ba has exhibited work at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; and Louvre Abu Dhabi, among others.
Omar Ba, Afrique ou La Grande Traversée vers un Etat Nation, 2019, oil on canvas, 833/4 × 1201/8 in. (212.72 × 305.12 cm).
Omar Ba, Eclosion de nos croyances, 2019, oil on canvas, 59 × 783/4 in. (149.86 × 200.02 cm).
Omar Ba, Same Dream, 2018, acrylic, gouache, oil, and pencil on canvas, 783/4 × 543/4 in. (200.02 × 139.06 cm).
Omar Ba, Ceremonial Costume, 2019, acrylic, gouache, oil, and pencil on canvas, 797/8 × 52 in. (202.88 × 132.08 cm).
Omar Ba, War Junkie 1, 2018, oil, pencil, acrylic, and gouache on craft-polyester paper, 995/8 × 631/4 in. (253.05 × 160.65 cm).
Past Resident2020: The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Agostino Iacurci
Agostino Iacurci works with a wide range of media, including painting, wall-painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation. He creates immersive spaces to transform the perception of given environments. Starting from specific topics like the use of colors in the ancient and classical world, he questions issues of traditions and identity, investigating the process of idealization underlying historical myths and their impact on the collective imagination.
Agostino Iacurci has exhibited work at Civic Museum of Palazzo Mosca, Pesaro; Society for Fine Arts and Permanent Exhibition, Milan; and Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City, among others.
Agostino Iacurci, Gypsoteca, 2018, paint, plaster, gouaches, paper, and wood.
Agostino Iacurci, Trompe l'oeil, 2017, paint, canvas, wood, cement, and found objects.
Agostino Iacurci, Gouaches on paper, 2017, gouaches on paper, 3 x 4.6 in. each .
Agostino Iacurci, Tracing Vitruvio, 2019, paint, canvas, wood, glass, mirror, and antique books.
Agostino Iacurci, Tracing Vitruvio, 2019, paint, canvas, wood, glass, mirror, and antique books.
