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Past Resident
2023: ARTWORKS

Artist

Sofia Stevi

Sofia Stevi is an artist living and working in Athens. Her paintings depict flowing interpretations of materiality in a universe where dreams are a construct of everyday experiences, bodies are in flux, chance takes on permanent substance, and time and space collide.

Sofia Stevi has exhibited work at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; Onassis Foundation Stegi, Greece; and The Benaki Museum, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world)

Sofia Stevi, The Guardian, 2023, acrylics on cotton fabric, wall painting, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world), 2023, three double sided paintings, acrylic on cotton fabric, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, Song without an ending, 2022, ink and actylic on cotton fabric, handpainted cotton and leatherette pillows, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, Turning forty winks into a decade, 2017-2018, mixed media, dimensions variable

Sofia Stevi, Spine Books (Skoliosis 004, Skoliosis 002, Kyphosis 001), 2009, mould-made cotton paper and thread, dimensions variable

Residents from Greece

Antonis Pittas

Greece, The Netherlands

Mondriaan Fund

Studio #219

Raffaela Naldi Rossano

Italy, Greece

The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Directorate-General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture

2024

Iria Vrettou

‘Daemonic Ecran Vivant’ is a moving portrait based on the concept of Tableau Vivant. The piece operates on specific hand drawn animated loops. The emphasis is placed on the movement of bodies, human, non-human, and more-than-human. It investigates how such movements can be perceived as dance for various concepts & species and the atmospheres that these create. If we consider life cycles as an expression of symbiosis then we can easily discern a ritual of perpetual transformation: the choreography of life. Image #2

Greece

ARTWORKS

2022

South Korea

Past Resident
2023: DOOSAN Art Center

Artist

Sol Enae Lee

Sol Enae Lee’s work is centered on translation and language semantics, articulating things that cannot be stated in words. She investigates performative and often ephemeral aspects such as movement, music, and light to reflect the constraints of language. Text functions as a point of departure for her work and goes through a continual translation process across multiple media in order to embody texts indifferently and open up spaces.

Sol Enae Lee has exhibited work at Bradwolff Project, The Netherlands; BAK basis voor actuele kunst, The Netherlands; and Venice International Performance Art Week, Italy, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

The installation view of two sound-image converts devices and spectrograms for performance. Of those two devices, one is made of a mirror, vibration speaker and laser light and the other is made of a metal cup with a rubber lid and laser lights combined on a flat wooden stick which is hung like a swing.

Sol Enae Lee, so you should play on a swing-Project Fire is Scary, 2021, installation view, sound-image converts devices devices and spectrogram for the performance

The performer is sitting on the ground and reading the text to the device, which shows the vibration of the voice. The device is made of a metal cup with a rubber lid and laser lights combined on a flat wooden stick hung like a swing.

Sol Enae Lee, so you should play on a swing-Project Fire is Scary, 2021, performance, sound-image converts devices devices and spectrogram for the performance, 15 min

Two old printer parts have two roller bars and one handle to rotate the rollers to make the papers out. Printed spectrograms are installed between the rollers, and leftover spectrograms are connected and shaped paper-roll aside. There is a white wooden panel describing the score for using devices and spectrogram with a phone app.

Sol Enae Lee, Fire is scary-Project Fire is Scary, 2020, spectrogram reading performance, two parts of an old printing machine and score

The diagram on the wall contains simple shapes, arrows, and text. One visitor is passing by, reading the poster booklet of the project

Sol Enae Lee, 35 word, 2020, wall drawing and poster-booklet

The stair image posters in the space stick vertically on the wall from the bottom to the ceiling. The real stairs are next to the wall, and one performer is reading the instruction standing on the stairs to the other performer, who wears a glitter hat with stars stuck on it. The hat-wearing performer is jumping in front of the stairs.

Sol Enae Lee, 35 word-Pieces of Choreography to Fly, 2020, performance

Residents from South Korea

Sungsil Ryu

Image of a text advertisement in Korean for a video series by BJ Cherry Jang. The text mentions

South Korea

DOOSAN Art Center

2024

Heemin Chung

South Korea

DOOSAN Art Center

2024

Winter Gyeoul Kim

South Korea

DOOSAN Art Center

2024

United States

Past Resident
2023: Vision Fund

Artist

Alicia Grullón

Alicia Grullón is a Bronx-based artist and organizer. Grullon’s social practice work extends to exploring how people relate to land in order to rally a transformation of our living by using performance and self-portraiture as a critique on the politics of presence, an argument for the inclusion of underinvested communities in political and social spheres. She is a Moore College of Art and Design Walentas Fellow for 2020-2022, and teaches at Queens College.

Alicia Grullón has exhibited work at Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University; Bronx Museum of the Arts; and BRIC Arts Media House, all in New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Miatta Kawinzi and Alicia Grullón

November 28, 2023, 6–8pm

2023 Fall Open Studios

November 10–November 11, 2023

Grullón’s self-portrait series, “From March to June: At Home with Essential Workers” is a continuation of her process using visual and embodied performative practices to create alternatives in archiving history. These self-portraits were created in her home in New York City during the Covid-19 quarantine. In this body of work, she simultaneously documents her time at home and current affairs affecting the nation.The titles refer to dates the images were taken and news articles from that time regarding the treatment of essential workers and incarcerated people during the pandemic.

Alicia Grullón, March 31, 2020: Rikers Island Prisoners Are Being Offered PPE and $6 an Hour to Dig Mass Graves, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 30 in. (152.4 × 76.2 cm)

April 13, 2020: NYC death toll jumps by 3,700 after uncounted fatalities are added, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)

Alicia Grullón, May 4th, 2020: We call workers ‘essential’ – but is that just referring to the work, not the people?, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)

Alicia Grullón, May 8th, 2020: US Postal Service warns coronavirus pandemic threatens its survival, 2020, archival color dye sublimation print, 60 × 36 in. (152.4 × 91.44 cm)