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Past Resident
2022: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

Artist

Ying Chiun Lee

Ying Chiun Lee is a glass and film artist whose process-driven work investigates human sexuality. Her practice focuses on the subtle details and movements of glass during its making. By utilizing these observations, she creates glass sculptures, installations, performances, and videos that speak on the fantasy of intimacy.

Ying Chiun Lee has exhibited work at GMTF Film Festival, Lybster; City Art Space and Joy Gallery, both Rochester, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Artists at Work: Ying Chiun Lee with Junghyun Kim

July 28, 2022, 6–7pm

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

This piece of work portrays my experience of living through the pandemic as a foreigner in the US. The video consists of two scenes; The first scene is a view through the bottom of the glass tank. Catching the moment of molten glass dropped into the water and broke within several macro-explosions. The second part of the scene is an uranium glass object with gold leaf scattered on the top. Then two amorphous blobs of hot glass come into the frame. They dance around the object seductively. The audio is composed of a mixture of electronic sounds, news broadcasts regarding Covid, and cicada sounds from rural Taiwan.

Ying Chiun Lee, Home?, 2021, single-channel video, 1:32 min.

Ecstasy is a slow-motion video of molten glass. In the scene, the background is dark while the glass is illuminating the surrounding with heat. The molten glass on the end of a rod is turning slowly. The speed of the turning is not fast enough to keep the glass from falling. A wooden paddle comes into the frame from the left, slapping and pushing the glass from dropping. When the glass and wood meet, the heat burns the wood thus creating sparks. Sometimes the wooden pat stays longer on the glass, gently lifting the weight of the glass. As the two materials touch, the heat begins to light up the wooden paddle, creating a bigger flame than the sparks. The video is accompanied by the background sound of white waves crashing on shores.

Ying Chiun Lee, Ecstasy, 2020, single-channel video, 1:11 min.

Seduction is a short film. The video switches between two scenes. One scene focuses on the surface of the leaf while another focuses on the stem of the leaf. In both parts, a borosilicate glass lingers around the leaf, turning constantly from falling. When the glass gets closer to the subject, the heat dries out its moisture. During the interaction, the vapor process makes the leaf move up and down. This video comes with the background sounds of human breathing and bed sheet rustling.

Ying Chiun Lee, Seduction, 2021, single-channel video, 1 min.

The Teahouse is an installation with found objects, glass, and video projections. The piece is approximately the size of a three feet cube. It was set up in the City Art Space in downtown Rochester. On the site, the installation was surrounded by four layers of white sheers hanging down from the ceiling. On the white sheer fabric, a short film was projected. With the translucency of this material, the film projects through one fabric to the other side, casting a blurred image of the video. In between each fabric, there was a gap that allowed people to walk into the installation. Inside the white cube, there were nine white low pedestals. Eight of them had objects or words on them, and only the one in the middle remained empty. These were the objects that were shown in the video.

Ying Chiun Lee, The Tea House, 2021, mixed media, 42 × 42 × 42 in. (106.68 × 106.68 × 106.68 cm)

In this picture, a person is sitting on the toilet, hands holding a cell phone. A heavy glass object is rested on the gap between the two legs. This object has a rough texture on the outside that looks like rocks. On the inside, it seems smooth and glossy. The side that is facing up has an opening that shows the object is neither solid nor filled. The intimate connection between the object and skin is actually cold, heavy and rough.

Ying Chiun Lee, Living with a Hole , 2021, photographic print, 45 × 53 in. (114.3 × 134.62 cm)

Residents from Taiwan

Alice Nien-Pu Ko

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2022

Yi Kuo

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2022

Erica Yu-Wen Huang

Taiwan

Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

2020

United States

Past Resident
2022: The Kettering Family Foundation

Artist

Sydney G. James

Sydney G. James’ work consists of figurative paintings and drawings on a multitude of surfaces of which are a direct reflection of her. Using paint, graphite, and in some cases actual footprints of viewers and passerby, the current and evolving body of work that she has created consists of images of “strong” black women in vulnerable scenarios that may be figurative or literal. These portraits and murals seek to reposition this narrative of the Black woman’s visibility.

Sydney G. James has exhibited work at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit; University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, Ann Arbor; and M Contemporary Art, Ferndale, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Vibrant Painting of a Black Woman relaxed while holding a Tea cup.

Sydney G. James, Serving Tee, 2021, mural, latex, and aerosol paint, 192 × 480 in. (487.68 × 1219.2 cm)

Sydney G. James, I Am Efya, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 48 in. (152.4 × 121.92 cm)

Vibrant Painting of a Black Man in thought

Sydney G. James, The More it Glows, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 48 × 60 in. (121.92 × 152.4 cm)

Vibrant Painting of a Black Woman with her hands held high while holding paperwork blocking entry to red silhouetted people seemingly surrounding her,

Sydney G. James, You Shall Not Pass, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 53 × 60 in. (134.62 × 152.4 cm)

Vibrant portrait of a Black woman posed in the position of the classic

Sydney G. James, Girl with the D Earring, 2020, mural, latex, and aerosol paint, 1296 × 960 in. (3291.84 × 2438.4 cm)

Residents from United States

Hellen Ascoli

This interactive sound table is an exploration of the relationship between text and textile, particularly through the oral tradition.

United States, Guatemala

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

Studio #302

Andrew Ross

Escher once asked, “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” The Dutch artist might have ignored the fundamentals of gravity, but Andrew Ross takes them head on, laying out a narrative where gravity is a character as real as the mole or ant. Ross’s exhibition—with its creatures, exotic garden, and reclining man admiring an apple —distorts what could otherwise be seen as a kind of pastoral. Using the language of display (plinths, pedestals, trusses), Ross teases out the purgatory between what we experience and what we know: the heavens, the earth, and the scafolding that connects them. The many faces of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson found in Ross’s flowers One suspects Tyson would admire the way that Ross’s universe, situated in the double helix of fact and ction, gives body to the forces we usually take for granted. His Untitled (Figure), a nod to the Newtonian myth, locates us in a moment of wonder when daydreams collide with reality. The ceiling and floor collapse and leave us with a divine sense of self- awareness. In the words of Tyson: “We are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us.” — Kat Herriman, Artforum Critic's Pick

United States

Celebrate the Studio

2023

Meghana Karnik

Exhibition view of TITLE TBD, a group exhibition featuring work by ⚙️️Admin, Adult Kindergarten, Thomas Barger, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, GenderFail, Jeff Kasper, Ariane Loze, Natalia Nakazawa, Emily Mae Smith and presented at The Cleveland Institute of Art's Reinberger Gallery.

United States

Artis

2022

Portugal, Spain

Past Resident
2022: Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)

Artist

AnaMary Bilbao

AnaMary Bilbao articulates documentation from photography, drawing, sound, and moving images. Through the combination of these elements and references, she seeks to start fictional narratives that put into question the idea of a single truth. As the artist states, “there is no truth beforehand, only connections, interruptions, and incompleteness – a piece can never end in itself.”

AnaMary Bilbao has exhibited at ARCOmadrid, Madrid; Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and Leal Rios Foundation, both Lisbon, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

AnaMary Bilbao, Blast effects, 2021, 35 inkjet prints on cotton paper

AnaMary Bilbao, J’avale la vague qui me noie le soleil de midi Date: , 2021, inkjet prints, slide projections, and video

AnaMary Bilbao, Como interromper a eternidade? (Intervalos para a dúvida) [How to cease eternity? (Gaps for doubt)], 2019, 6 inkjet prints on cotton paper 320gr 16mm film, and sound, 2:53 min, loop

AnaMary Bilbao, Todas as formas sublimes são transitórias [All sublime forms are transitory], 2018, inkjet print on Japanese paper, 433/8 × 59 in. (110.24 × 149.86 cm) each

AnaMary Bilbao, Renascimento por transformação II (Rebirth through transformation), 2018, Inkjet print on Japanese paper, 65 × 43³/₈ in. (165.1 × 110.24 cm)

Residents from Portugal

Henrique Pavão

BRONZE, IRON, STEEL, WOOD, 16MM FILM PROJECTOR, LOOPER, 16MM FILM (B/W, SILENT, 2’25”, LOOP) VARIABLE DIMENSIONS INSTALLATION VIEW, ‘SEA OF TRANQUILITY’, FRAME SECTION AT FRIEZE NY AT THE SHED, NEW YORK

Portugal

Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)

2022

Ana Manso

Portugal

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

2022

Claudia Ulisses

Portugal

Anonymous

2010