Current Resident: Jan 1, 2021–Jun 30, 2021
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
Studio #304
Artist
Maria D. Rapicavoli
Maria D. Rapicavoli works across film, photography, and site- specific installation. Her work explores conditions of power, alienation, invisibility, and displacement through a critique of global economic and political systems. Drawing on her native Sicily as a place of departure and arrival, Rapicavoli explores the sea and the sky as sites of transit where individual narratives intersect with international politics. She seeks to make tangible the ways structures of power, taking place out of sight, impact our everyday lives
Maria D. Rapicavoli has exhibited work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Palazzo Reale, Milan; and Whitechapel Gallery, London, among others.
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2014NCTM e l'arte
Maria D. Rapicavoli, The Other: A Familiar Story, 2020, two channel video installation, 19:40 min.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, If I am In Pieces Is It Easier To See?, 2020, handmade glazed white ceramic.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, I Due Mari (The Two Seas), 35 handmade glazed ceramic vases, sea water, dimensions variable.
Maria D. Rapicavoli, A Starry Messenger, 2019, hand-carved white alabaster, glass lenses, transparency film, plexiglass, steel, 8 × 2 × 41/2 in. (20.32 × 5.08 × 11.43 cm).
Maria D. Rapicavoli, Crooked Incline, 2018, 100 porcelain pieces, plastic strings, dimensions variable.
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, 2020–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, Hartfield Foundation, Mondriaan Fund, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Wieteke Heldens
Wieteke Heldens works primarily with painting. She uses personal experiences and thoughts and turns them into abstract concepts. Heldens creates all her work according to a self-devised algorithm by giving herself instructions based on a starting position and works towards the desired result. It is her way of getting a grasp on everything happening around us.
Wieteke Heldens has exhibited work at Kunst Museum Den Haag, The Hague; Royal Palace Amsterdam; Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, among others.
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Wieteke Heldens, And Still No More Color, 2018, marker on canvas, 62 × 177 in. (157.48 × 449.58 cm).
Wieteke Heldens, Of Course, Off Course, 2018, marker on canvas, 69 x 26 in. and 44 x 87 in.
Wieteke Heldens, The Legend 4, 2017, mixed media on canvas, 47 × 70 in. (119.38 × 177.8 cm).
Wieteke Heldens, With Blue Content, 2018, marker on brown bag, 15 × 17 in. (38.1 × 43.18 cm).
Wieteke Heldens, It's Like, You Know, 2019, oil on canvas, 43 × 71 in. (109.22 × 180.34 cm).
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, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
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, Hartfield Foundation, Joseph Robert Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Carlos Franco
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, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha