Past Residents

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Past Resident
2019: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation

Artist

Sophy Naess

Sophy Naess is a multimedia artist based in New Haven who works with painting, printmaking, weaving, and writing.

Sophy Naess has exhibited work at 321 Gallery, Brooklyn; 17ESSEX, New York; and Växjö Konsthall, Sweden, among others. She is a lecturer in the Painting and Printmaking program at Yale University School of Art, and Director of Chateau d’Eau, an exhibition platform for artist designed fragrances.

Sophy Naess, Untitled (To Plumb), 2017, handwoven cotton fiber, 68 × 96 in. (172.72 × 243.84 cm)

Sophy Naess, Slow Thing, 2018, handwoven silk and cotton fiber, 98 × 120 in. (248.92 × 304.8 cm)

Sophy Naess, Jämtlands Giverny, 2018, handwoven cotton fiber, 180 × 108 in. (457.2 × 274.32 cm)

Sophy Naess, All The Things You Are, 2017, oil, acrylic, gouache, and paper on canvas, 13 x 11 each

Sophy Naess, a Tergo, 2016, handwoven silk and cotton fiber, 130 × 96 in. (330.2 × 243.84 cm)

Residents from United States

Frank WANG Yefeng

United States, China

ISCP Alumni Fund

Studio #303

Efrat Hakimi

A table top arrangement of paper, cutout images, ephemera, and tools used in bookbinding.

United States

Artis

Studio #301

Bryan Fernandez

United States

The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund

Studio #216

Turkey, The Netherlands

Past Resident
2019: ISCP Alumni Fund
2016: SAHA Association

Artist

belit sağ

belit sağ’s ongoing artistic and moving image practice largely focuses on the role of visual representations in the experience and perception of political conflicts and violence in Turkey, Germany, and the Netherlands. Recent works include a video piece that centers around the concepts and practices of conserving, conversing, absences and re-enactment.

belit sağ’swork has been exhibited in international art spaces including PEER UK and LUX, London; EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam; and documenta 14, Kassel, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Matilda Aslizadeh and belit sağ

July 2, 2019, 6:30–8pm

belit sağ, Tomáš Rafa and Siddhartha Mitter on Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary

January 23, 2018, 6:30–8pm

Concrete Truth: Art and the Documentary

October 24, 2017–February 16, 2018

Spring Open Studios 2016

April 29–April 30, 2016

belit sağ, cut-out, 2018, video, 4 min

belit sağ, what remains, 2018, video, 7:10 min

belit sağ, (Against) Randomness, 2017, video, 2:20 min

belit sağ, disruption, 2016, video, 5 min

belit sağ, Ayhan and me, 2016, video, 14:30

Residents from Turkey

Alper Aydin

Throughout history, domes—the components of buildings pointing to the sky—have been identified as the source of spirituality and able to deliver the images, narratives, and messages of the skies. In this work, two large-sized satellite dishes whirling around their axes stand level with the audience and, with their controlled rotation, get in a loop akin to the movement of the planet, the sun, and the moon, formation of months and years. One of the dishes of these two technical systems holds the ornaments and the Arabic calligraphy of the dome of Hagia Sophia. The other one carries the dome of parecclesion of Chora Monastery depicting the Virgin and Child and the angels. The forms and the ornaments of these small representations of the vault of heaven have been adapted to the antenna systems used to communicate, observe, and receive signals. The micro vaults of heaven are placed next to people instead of above. They unite with the sky in the open air. This work directs people’s gaze to outer space, the unknown, and the infinitude of imagination and reflects hope about the future.

Turkey

SAHA Association

2024

Eda Gecikmez

Turkey

SAHA Association

2023

Sümer Sayin

Stone found on a beach, its photograph and stone made of ceramic. The handmade stone is sculpted by hand with clay looking at the photo as a reference, then fired to a stoneware temperature.

Turkey, Germany

SAHA Association

2022

Norway

Past Resident
2019: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Artist

Helene Førde

Helene Førde is an interdisciplinary artist working with installation, sculpture, sound, mechanical or interactive elements, and performance. She uses a site sensitive approach throughout her practice. Førde is interested in exploring perception, awareness, memories, context, and the particular history and character of a space. Her recent works also reflect on cultural history, traditions and patterns of living, in the face of new times, change and prevailing politics.

Helene Førde has exhibited at Galleri F 15, Moss Norway; Møre & Romsdal Art Center, Molde, Norway; and has shown work as part of Bonn Hoeren, Bonn, Germany, among others. She is the winner of the sound art competition Sonotopia 2015.