Past Residents
Past Resident2021: ARTWORKS
Ιris Touliatou
Ιris Touliatou (born 1981, Athens, Greece) engages in a conceptual practice, which transposes the political, environmental and affective, and employs various mediums necessary for each intervention. Manifesting in sculpture, photography, sound, scent and text, her work often draws on found objects and creates open forms and shared experiences, to comment on time, intimacy, transience, mortality, economies and states of being.
Ιris Touliatou has exhibited work at The 7th Athens Biennale, Greece; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Greece; and Palais de Tokyo, France, among others.
Ιris Touliatou, UNTITLED (STILL NOT OVER YOU), 2021, ceiling light fixtures foraged from defunct offices in Athens, aluminium frame, fluorescents, wires, and cable, 33 × 60 × 3 in. (83.82 × 152.4 × 7.62 cm)
Ιris Touliatou, EMOTIONAL INFINITY (THE SOUND OF THEM COMING BACK AMPLIFIED AND LOOPED), 2020, Oscillating fans, replicated sets of keys, dimensions variable
Ιris Touliatou, UNREHEARSED PORTRAIT (WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE BACKGROUND) SERIES, 2019, Portrait taken at commercial photography studios (ongoing series) digital chromogenic print, glass, wallet size
Ιris Touliatou, SONG, 2007-2021(ongoing), Attempts to forge Ana Mendieta’s signature, ink on various media, dimensions variable
Ιris Touliatou, TO LAURIE, 2021, Website, laurieparsons94@gmail.com Unread email inbox, newsletter subscriptions, endless thread of thoughts and count / sound of email, dimensions variable
Residents from Greece
Past Resident2021: Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Sarah Zapata
Through textiles, Sarah Zapata examines how her personal experience points to larger societal constructs, intersecting theories of gender, cultural identity, and spirituality. As the daughter of an evangelical Christian mother and a Peruvian father, ethnicity and religion were at the center of her family dynamics during her upbringing in Texas. Zapata’s Peruvian heritage attracted her to textiles from a young age. The material’s malleability and historical context, in turn, pushed her in the direction of her current artistic practice.
Sarah Zapata has exhibited work at Performance Space New York; MATE Mario Testino Museum, Peru; and Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, among others.
Sarah Zapata, Living in Our Own Time (3 gargoyles), 2021, handwoven natural and synthetic fiber, panel, dimensions variable
Sarah Zapata, The Taxing of a Fruitful Procession, 2020, natural and synthetic fiber, handwoven cloth, hand tufted cloth, ceramic, dimensions variable
Sarah Zapata, A Famine of Hearing, 2019, natural and synthetic fiber, handwoven cloth, hand tufted cloth, wood., dimensions variable
Sarah Zapata, Standing on the Edge of Time, 2019, natural and synthetic fiber, handwoven cloth, wood, dimensions variable
Sarah Zapata, To Teach or To Assume Authority, 2018-2019, natural and synthetic fiber, handwoven cloth, wood
Residents from United States
Past Resident2021: 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 the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
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 e-flux, Ann Arbor Film Festival; Oberhausen International Short Film Festival; CROSSROADS presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Channels Festival International Biennial of Video Art, Melbourne; CPH:DOX; Microscope Gallery, New York and AC Gallery, Beijing, and the Dowse Art Museum, New Zealand, 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.
Events & Exhibitions
Homecoming Outdoor Screening
August 20, 2021, 8–9:30pm
2021 Summer Open House
July 28, 2021, 3–9pm
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
Alison Nguyen, my favorite software is being here, 2020-2021, single channel video, stereo sound, 19 min
Alison Nguyen, my favorite software is being here, 2020, single channel video, muslin projection screen, custom carpet and furniture, mylar ceiling, stereo sound, 19 min., loop
Alison Nguyen, Andra8 Lecture-Performance #1, 2020, online performance, Instagram Live, 14 min.
Alison Nguyen, every dog has its day, 2019, single channel video, MDF projection screen, carpet, stereo sound, 6:39 min., loop
Alison Nguyen, Dessert-Disaster, 2017-18, double channel video, color, quadraphonic sound, 3:54 min., loop
Ground Floor Residents
Tamen Pérez
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
Azita Moradkhani
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 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 the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha
James Beckett
New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha