Past Residents
Past Resident2018: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Sonia Louise Davis
Sonia Louise Davis engages improvisation across installation, writing, weaving and performance. In her practice, Davis creates experimental scores using an invented graphic notation. Her work is deeply informed by critical race and feminist theory as well as her training as a jazz vocalist.
Sonia Louise Davis was born and raised in New York City. In September 2016 her large-scale collaborative performance shake the stars with your song premiered at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has exhibited work at Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York City; and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. This past spring her writing was published in Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University and alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program, Sonia lives and works in Harlem.
Sonia Louise Davis, a score to keep time / a score to lose time / but never yourself, in it, 2017, installation with wall drawing, and hand-woven tapestry, dimensions variable.
Sonia Louise Davis, blue nile (for alice), detail, 2017, hand-woven textile, natural and synthetic fibers, electroluminescent wires, and battery packs, 72 × 22 × 2 in. (182.88 × 55.88 × 5.08 cm).
Sonia Louise Davis, blue black twill, 2017, hand-woven textile, natural and synthetic fibers, electroluminescent wire, and battery pack, 16 × 20 × 2 in. (40.64 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm).
Sonia Louise Davis, color is the sound an object makes when light strikes, 2016, installation, gloss enamel and liquid watercolor on glass, neon tubes, and transformers, dimensions variable.
Sonia Louise Davis, duet blue + green, grid; black solo, journal, 2015, 2016, liquid watercolor on cold press paper; liquid watercolor in soft bound notebook, 11x15 in. each and 144 pages.
Residents from United States
Søren Thilo Funder
Søren Thilo Funder’s works are carefully crafted cinematic mash-ups of diverse cultural fields and social histories, integrating aspects of critical theory, literature, cinema, popular culture and counterculture. Through the use of cinematic narratives, mise en scène and video documents the artist aspire to propose new connections between historical, cultural and political matter and generate new potential spaces, third places, for political contemplation and counter-memory.
Søren Thilo Funder lives and works in Denmark. He has participated in international exhibitions at 19th Biennale of Sydney; Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; 12th Istanbul Biennial; Turku Art Museum; Critical Distance, Toronto; amongst others.
Søren Thilo Funder, Swerve (You’re Gonna Die Up There), 2016, 3 channel HD video, 10 min.
Søren Thilo Funder, First Citizen (House of the Deaf Man), 2013, HD video, 12 min, 30 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, DOWN WITH DOMESTIC TRASH (Rubber Plant), 2016, HD video, 7 min, 45 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, The Vanishing Table, 2014, HD video, 14 min, 13 sec.
Søren Thilo Funder, The Adaptation (No-thing me-lanch-oly ’bout us), 2014, 3 channel HD video, 15 min.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2018: Toby Devan Lewis
Doreen Garner
Doreen Garner’s work depicts the history of black bodies subject to scientific objectification, experimentation, humiliation and torture. She translates this documentation that she cannot unread into objects, videos, and performances that people cannot unsee. Unanesthetized surgeries and unwarranted medical experiments re-emerge in glass and silicone sculpture. These rubbery, transparent carcasses become objects of desire, glittered with wet silicon, latex, Swarovski crystals and hair.
Doreen Garner has exhibited her work at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C., and more.
Doreen Garner, Untitled: Strange Fruit, 2016, silicone, dressmaker pins, hair weave, surgical instruments, and twine, 20 × 15 × 11 in. (50.8 × 38.1 × 27.94 cm).
Doreen Garner, Layers, 2016, silicone, polyester fiber, cinderblock, carpet padding, and fiberglass insulation, 54 × 23 × 15 in. (137.16 × 58.42 × 38.1 cm).
Doreen Garner, Vesico Vaginal Fistula, 2016, silicone, wire, and hair weave, 22 × 11 × 11 in. (55.88 × 27.94 × 27.94 cm).
Doreen Garner, Pickled Pearl, 2015, glass, Swarovski crystals, Swarovski pearls, baking bundts, silicone, brass pipe, plumbing tube, and hair weave, 60 × 12 × 12 in. (152.4 × 30.48 × 30.48 cm).
Doreen Garner, NEO (plasm), 2015, glass, polyester fiber, Swarovski crystals, condoms, hair weave, pearls, glitter, polyurethane, urethane plastic, beads, petroleum jelly, hair ballies, zip ties, and epoxy putty, 36 × 24 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 × 60.96 cm).