Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Kakyoung Lee
Kakyoung Lee’s moving images are focused on the repetitive nature of personal daily life. The monotonous daily ritual is deconstructed and reconstructed in a fresh configuration in which nothing is the same and all things are in continuous flux. Lee combines hundreds of hand drawn images and prints to construct a moving image that reflects the sequence of activities in ordinary life and alludes to her search for her identity in the different geographic and cultural milieus through which she has passed in the travels between her two home countries, South Korea and the United States.
Kakyoung Lee (born 1975) works with moving images, prints, drawings, and installations. She received a BFA from Hong‐Ik University, Seoul, and a MFA from Purchase College, NY. Lee has exhibited widely in Korea and the United States including the Drawing Center; the Lower East Side Print Shop; the Queens Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Seoul Arts Center. Lee has participated in residencies at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Brooklyn; Yaddo, Saratoga Springs; the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH; the Lower East Side Printshop, New York; and the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, New York. Lee is a recipient of awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant (2010), the Korea Arts Foundation of America Award for Visual Arts (2010), and the AHL Foundation Award in New York (2009). Lee’s works are in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Library of Congress, Washington D.C., among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Kakyoung Lee and Jean-Michel Ross
January 24, 2012
Kakyoung Lee, Jamaica Station - 1110, 2011, HD moving image, graphite on paper, B/W, and sound, 0:46 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Walk - 2010, 2010 , HD moving image, 198 prints, drypoint on Hahenmuhle copperplate, bright white, B/W, and sound, 1:00 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Grand Central - 0211, 2011, HD video, color, and sound, 3:27 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Days in New York - Horizontal, 2011 , 5 channel HD moving image, graphite on paper, B/W, and sound, 1:40 min. Courtesy of the artist
Kakyoung Lee, Untitled - Grand Army Plaza.Brooklyn.NY.03.09., 2009, HD moving image, 156 Prints, B/W, and sound, 0:37 min. Courtesy of the artist
Residents from South Korea
Past Resident2011: Wallace Arts Trust
Sam Mitchell
Borrowing the visual style of kids’ comics and cartoons, as well as from the underworld of tattoos, Sam Mitchell’s provocative paintings often have playful or dark subject matter. With a knack for pitching uncanny combinations and elements together, Mitchell’s works are delicately and deftly painted but have a seething undercurrent that takes you by surprise. Mitchell paints in reverse on Perspex; and like the cell of a cartoon or a tattoo on the body, the images cut down to just the essential storytelling elements. The world depicted in Mitchell’s work has a childlike reality—the salient parts are deeply observed and rendered in meticulous, loving detail.
Sam Mitchell was born in Colorado Springs and currently lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. Mitchell has exhibited widely throughout New Zealand, and is represented by Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland.
Sam Mitchell, Flora, 2011, Watercolor on digital print , 161/2 × 233/8 in. (41.91 × 59.37 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Sam Mitchell, Bas Bleu (A Literary Woman), 2011, Acrylic on perspex, 393/8 × 393/8 in. (100.01 × 100.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Sam Mitchell, Glam, 2011, Acrylic on perspex, 311/2 × 311/2 in. (80.01 × 80.01 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Sam Mitchell, Janus, 2010, Acrylic on perspex, 411/2 × 313/4 in. (105.41 × 80.64 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Sam Mitchell, Lincoln and friends, 2010, Watercolor on found paper, 81/4 × 53/4 in. (20.95 × 14.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist
Past Resident2011: Institut Français
Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based artist collective, founded in 2004. After lifting her name from a popular brand of school notebooks, Claire Fontaine declared herself a “readymade artist” and began to develop a version of neo-conceptual art that often looks like other people’s work. Working in neon, video, sculpture, painting and text, her practice can be described as an ongoing interrogation of the political impotence and the crisis of singularity that seem to define contemporary art today. But if the artist herself is the subjective equivalent of a urinal or a Brillo box – as displaced, deprived of its use value, and exchangeable as the products she makes – there is always the possibility of what she calls the “human strike.” Claire Fontaine uses her freshness and youth to make herself a whatever-singularity and an existential terrorist in search of subjective emancipation. She grows up among the ruins of the notion of authorship, experimenting with collective protocols of production, détournements, and the production of various devices for the sharing of intellectual and private property.
Recent shows include Future Tense, El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F.; Economies, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; No Family Life, Air de Paris, Paris; Fighting Gravity, Regina Gallery, London and Moscow; P.I.G.S., MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain; Where Do We Migrate To?, Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, Baltimore; PhotoMonth, Bunker Stuzki Contemporary Art Museum, Krakow; Network, Mastermind, Casablanca; and Relationship Building, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna. Claire Fontaine is represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art and Metro Pictures, New York; T293, Napoli and Rome; Galerie Neu, Berlin; and Galerie Chantal Crousel / Air de Paris, Paris. She is now preparing a catalogue with Buchhandlung Walther König.
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
Claire Fontaine, P. I. G. S., 2011, Production stills, Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and MUSAC, Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
