Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Vision Fund2022: Vision Fund
Darian Longmire
Darian Longmire remixes images from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) and re-invents them into new color ways. He explores painting, drawing, printmaking and mixed media, from an abstract point-of-view. He uses physics and space travel are used as a cite for abstraction and political commentary.
Darian Longmire has exhibited work at Opalka Gallery; Albany Center Gallery; and State University of New York at Albany all Albany, New York, among others.
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 1, 2020, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 48 × 32 in. (121.92 × 81.28 cm).
Darian Longmire, Convoluted Magnetism Selection 2, 2021, mixed media painting and collage on panel, 36 × 24 in. (91.44 × 60.96 cm).
Darian Longmire, Black Spectrum 1, 2020, mixed media on museum board, 16 × 20 in. (40.64 × 50.8 cm).
Darian Longmire, Satellite Abstraction 3, 2019, collage on paper, 24 × 32 in. (60.96 × 81.28 cm).
Darian Longmire, Passing Through, 2021, mixed media on mulberry paper, 47 × 20 in. (119.38 × 50.8 cm).
Residents from United States
Past Resident2022: The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund
Steven Anthony Johnson II
Steven Anthony Johnson II uses the language of drawing, animation, and photography to make peace between the religious, intellectual, and humanistic ideals in relation to “Otherness” and Blackness. The artist attempts to create a modern sense of realism by utilizing traditional techniques with abstracted senses of temperature and value.
Steven Anthony Johnson II has exhibited work at Field Projects, New York; Inbreak, Los Angeles; and Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, among others.
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Annie Mae, 2021, charcoal and graphite on mounted paper, 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.78 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Had I dreams anymore they would be of a world I hope you would possess, 2021, charcoal, graphite, and watercolor on mounted paper, 9 × 12 in. (22.86 × 30.48 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Weeping May Endureth For a Night, 2021, charcoal, graphite, and watercolor on mounted paper, 12 × 9 in. (30.48 × 22.86 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, Three, 2020, ballpoint and ink on paper, 6 × 4 in. (15.24 × 10.16 cm).
Steven Anthony Johnson II, One, 2021, charcoal, graphite, and wax pencil on mounted paper, 24 × 18 in. (60.96 × 45.72 cm).
Residents from United States
Petrina Dacres
Petrina Dacres is an independent curator and founding member of Tide Rising Art Projects, an organization created to support and promote contemporary Caribbean art and film. Her work and research focus on Caribbean art; African diaspora art; public sculpture and memorials; and memory studies.
Petrina Dacres has organized exhibitions at The Clemente Art Center, New York; The National Museum, Jamaica, Kingston; and National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, among others. Dacres is the Head of Art History at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica.
Tide Rising Art Projects, Transformation: Images and Objects in Relation, 2021, exhibition poster.
Tim Barringer and Wayne Modest, Victorian Jamaica, 2018, "Keeping Alive Before the People's Eyes This Great Event': Kingston's Queen Victoria Monument," book essay.
Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, EN MAS: Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, 2016, "The Poetics of Death and Visibility: Introducing Ebony Patterson's Invisible Presence, Bling Memories," catalogue essay.
Petrina Dacres, Uprising: Morant Bay, 1865 and its Afterlives, 2015, National Museum of Jamaica, Kingston.
Petrina Dacres, Edna Manley: Into the Sun, 2015, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica.