Current Resident: Sep 1, 2020–Dec 31, 2020
Vision Fund
Studio #303
Artist
Lauren Kelley
Lauren Kelley is a storytelling 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
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 Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland
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.
Events & Exhibitions
2020 Summer Open Studios
August 25–August 26, 2020
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, 2020
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
Civan Özkanoğlu
Civan Özkanoğlu’s interdisciplinary work traces the everyday. He is interested in seemingly mundane stories and daily absurdities and how they converge in public space, mass media, the art world, and in the realm of politics and collective memory. His practice has increasingly moved from photography to other visual, sculptural and performative interventions that tend to the conceptual tensions within artistic production and the exhibition forms it enables.
Civan Özkanoğlu has exhibited work at SALT, Istanbul; National Academy Museum & School, New York; and Istanbul Modern, among others.
civanozkanoglu.comEvents & Exhibitions
2020 Summer Open Studios
August 25–August 26, 2020
Civan Özkanoğlu, As We All Know, 2016, performance.
Civan Özkanoğlu, In Person, 2014, photography.
Civan Özkanoğlu, Deleuze This Deleuze That, 2015, neon installation.
Civan Özkanoğlu, Ilan Olunur, 2018, text installation.
Civan Özkanoğlu, Non Guilty, 2012, photography.
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
Habby Osk
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
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