Current Resident: Sep 1, 2020–Feb 28, 2021
Vision Fund
Studio #303
Artist
Lauren Kelley
Lauren Kelley is a storyteller employing a wry wit when surveying notions of emotional excess. Her approach to animation combines clay-mation with a collection of tan, plastic toys to stylistically evoke the children’s television programs of the artist’s youth. Her jittery, low-tech ideas take place amongst Technicolor dioramas; a plush backdrop in contrast to the flaccid storylines of a discontented cast of innocent characters.
Lauren Kelley has exhibited work at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Women and Their Work, Austin; and The Kitchen, New York, among others
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
Lauren Kelley, Pickin', 1999, C-print, 24 × 24 in. (60.96 × 60.96 cm).
Lauren Kelley, Froufrou Conclusions, 2011, single-channel video, 1:22 min.
Lauren Kelley, Video Still-Pink Heads, 2011, multi-channel video, 22 sec.
Lauren Kelley, Storyboard Image - Prototypical Oppression/ Obsession, 2009, digital C-Print, 11 × 81/2 in. (27.94 × 21.59 cm).
Lauren Kelley, Video Still-Telephone, 2014, multi-channel video, 17 sec.
Residents from United States
Current Resident: Jul 1, 2020–Jun 30, 2021
Toby Devan Lewis
Studio #305
Artist
Pamela Council
Pamela Council is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist creating fountains for Black joy. Guided by material, cultural, and metaphysical quests, Council’s practice embodies a darkly humorous and inventive Afro-Americana camp aesthetic she refers to as BLAXIDERMY. Through this lens, Council uses sculpture, architecture, writing, and performance to shed light on under-examined and under-valued narratives.
Pamela Council has exhibited work at Studio Museum in Harlem; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and African American Museum in Philadelphia; among others.
Pamela Council, Red Drink: A BLAXIDERMY Juneteenth Offering, 2018, concrete, fiberglass, and Big Red Soda, 144 × 120 × 120 in. (365.76 × 304.8 × 304.8 cm).
Pamela Council, BLAXIDERMY Pink, 2019, Lusters Pink Lotion, spinning oral sex toy, chocolate fondue fountain, rhinestones, paint, runner rug, carpet, and framed silicone on panel.
Pamela Council, wtf is juice/gw smile, 2016, sugar, water, purple, Listerine, George Washington's raggedy ass slaves' teeth dentures, gold party foil, Grapeade cans, lights, fountain, and silk velvet with surface devoured by the artist, 65 × 100 × 48 in. (165.1 × 254 × 121.92 cm).
Pamela Council, Swag Surf (Suite), ongoing.
Pamela Council, Fountain of Your Youth, 2017, plastic pony beads, motor, plastic, fabric, optic yellow tennis ball felt, pool noodles, nylon, and sneaker rubber.
Residents from United States
Current Resident: Jan 1, 2019–Dec 31, 2021
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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Hartfield Foundation
Alison Nguyen
Alison Nguyen’s work explores the ways in which images are produced, disseminated, and consumed within the current media landscape, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent, she re-articulates mainstream visual language in video, installation, and new media works.
Alison Nguyen received her B.A. from Brown University. She has presented work at Ann Arbor Film Festival; CROSSROADS presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, Melbourne; Microscope Gallery, New York and AC Gallery, Beijing, and OK Corral, Copenhagen, among others. Nguyen has participated in residencies and/or been awarded fellowships from The Institute of Electronic Arts, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center, and BRIC. She has been awarded grants from The Foundation for Contemporary Art, NYSCA and The New York Community Trust. In 2018, Nguyen was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
alisonnguyen.comEvents & Exhibitions
2020 Fall Open Studios
November 17–November 18, 2020
2020 Summer Open Studios
August 25–August 26, 2020
Artists at Work with Alison Nguyen: ‘my favorite software is being here,’ a lecture performance on Instagram Live
May 12, 2020, 4–5pm
2019 Fall Open Studios
November 15–November 16, 2019
Ungrounded
October 8–December 6, 2019
Alison Nguyen, Dessert-Disaster, 2017-18, HD double-channel video installation, color, and sound, 3:54 min., loop.
Alison Nguyen, Dessert-Disaster, 2017-18, HD double-channel video installation, color, and sound, 3:54 min., loop.
Alison Nguyen , Andra8: my favorite software is being here, 2020, HD single-channel video, 10 min, loop.
Alison Nguyen, every dog has its day, single channel installation documentation, HD video, 54 x 96 x 15 in. MDF projection screen, 8’x10’ carpet, stereo sound, 6 minutes 39 second loop, 2019.
Alison Nguyen, you can't plan a perfect day sometimes it just happens, 2017, HD single-channel video on wood and muslin screen, 8:24 min, loop, 66 x 120 x 15 in.
Ground Floor Residents
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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation
Svetlana Bailey
Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation
Wieteke Heldens
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 Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Hartfield Foundation, Mondriaan Fund