Current Residents

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Current Resident: Mar 1, 2022–May 31, 2022

Studio #203

Sümer Sayin

Sümer Sayin works with transformed objects as sculptures to investigate how we perceive our environment and how we can create alternative realities. Through playful visual interventions, Sayin creates conceptual and contextual alterations. She transforms systems, tools, and objects that are used to define our surroundings, movements or presence in one way or another to create poetic meanings and visible connections.

Sümer Sayin has exhibited work at R E I T E R, Berlin; Depo, Istanbul; 2015 Lyon Biennial, Jeune Création International, Lyon, among others.

sumersayin.com

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Stone found on a beach, its photograph and stone made of ceramic. The handmade stone is sculpted by hand with clay looking at the photo as a reference, then fired to a stoneware temperature.

Sümer Sayin, Your Untitled Stone, 2020, stone, sculpture, and c-print photo, dimensions variable

Sümer Sayin, Action Plan, 2018, wood, ropes, and hooks, dimensions variable

The mirrors cut out exactly in the shape of DEPO's former window, are placed on the wall with light projected onto them, creating reflections on the ground and giving the illusion of light coming through the window.

Sümer Sayin, It Is Still Light Outside, 2018, mirrors and spotlight, 50 × 35 in. (127 × 88.9 cm)

Sümer Sayin, Access, Your Personal Key, 2018, 3D print (alumide) and catalog, dimensions variable

Sümer Sayin, What If, 2017, Installation, lifebuoy and plexiglass boards

Residents from Turkey

Baris Gokturk

Monument III is based on a photograph I saw on the wall of a working-class restaurant in Ankara, Turkey. The photograph shows an equestrian statue of Ataturk, the founder of republic, right before it left the foundry.

Turkey, United States

SAHA Association

2021

Volkan Kızıltunç

Turkey

SAHA Association

2019

belit sağ

Turkey, The Netherlands

ISCP Alumni Fund

2016

Canada

Current Resident: Apr 1, 2022–Jun 30, 2022

Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council for the Arts

Studio #204

Artist

Tyler Los-Jones

Tyler Los-Jones produces objects and images from his home in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta. Interested in the role photography plays in the production and the fulfillment of our expectations for environments, the work he had produced over the past decade aims to complicate inherited assumptions of environments by bringing the unnatural aspects of the western conception of nature to the forefront.

Tyler Los-Jones has exhibited work at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown; and Norberg Hall, Calgary, among others.

tylerlosjones.com

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Folded Photographic net of alpine wildflower field featuring Arnica, Aster, and Castilleja flowers. The photograph has been printed, folded, and knit into the form of a net. The pattern of the net reflects the petal pattern of the flowers in the original image.

Tyler Los-Jones, The knots of the net; Arnica / Aster / Castilleja , 2021, folded archival inkjet print, adhesive, 31¹/₂ × 80¹/₄ in. (80.01 × 203.83 cm)

Detail of a folded Photographic net of alpine wildflower field featuring Arnica, Aster, and Castilleja flowers. The photograph has been printed, folded, and knit into the form of a net. The pattern of the net reflects the petal pattern of the flowers in the original image.

Tyler Los-Jones, The knots of the net; Arnica / Aster / Castilleja , 2021, folded archival inkjet print, adhesive, 31¹/₂ × 80¹/₄ in. (80.01 × 203.83 cm)

A folded Photographic net featuring bright pink Moss Campion flowers. The photograph has been printed, folded, and knit into the form of a net. The pattern of the net reflects the petal pattern of the flowers in the original image.

Tyler Los-Jones, The knots of the net; Moss Campion, 2021, folded archival inkjet print, adhesive, 17³/₄ × 17³/₄ in. (45.08 × 45.08 cm)

A folded Photographic net of wild Shooting Star flowers. The photograph has been printed, folded, and knit into the form of a net. The pattern of the net reflects the petal pattern of the flowers in the original image.

Tyler Los-Jones, The knots of the net; Shooting Star, 2021, folded archival inkjet print, adhesive, 25¹/₄ × 24¹/₂ in. (64.13 × 62.23 cm)

Detail of a folded Photographic net of alpine wildflower field featuring Glacier Lilly, Western Anemone, and White Geranium flowers. The photograph has been printed, folded, and knit into the form of a net. The pattern of the net reflects the petal pattern of the flowers in the original image.

Tyler Los-Jones, The knots of the net; Glacier Lilly / Western Anemone / White Geranium, 2021, folded archival inkjet print, adhesive, 37¹/₄ × 36¹/₄ in. (94.61 × 92.07 cm)

Residents from Canada

Taryn Kneteman

A charcoal bath bomb shaped like an anatomical heart is gently held by a gloved hand.

Canada

Alberta Foundation for the Arts

Studio #216

Joani Tremblay

Canada

Canada Council for the Arts

Studio #301

Chris Andrews

A gallery with concrete floors and white walls. A metal handrail sculpture is in the foreground. A monitor on the wall behind it shows a video work and a fountain sculpture in the far corner.

Canada

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

2021

United States

Current Resident: Dec 1, 2021–May 31, 2022

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

Studio #205

Artist

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang creates multi-media sculptures and installations that explore the absurdity and violence inherent in both human nature and identity construction. The artist’s own Puerto Rican background, along with the historical and material culture of the Caribbean region, serve a prism through which he synthesizes ideas around race, nationality, tradition, and socioeconomics through visual representation.

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang has exhibited work at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, MoMA PS1, and El Museo del Barrio, all New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

2022 Spring Open Studios

April 22–April 23, 2022

Zemi is a teddy bear made out of recycled US army uniforms. The surface of the bear is entirely covered with silver-grey zinc and gold beads, pearls and lapis lazuli stones. It was inspired by the Beaded Zemi in Rome's Pigorini Museum, one of the finest surviving examples of Taino art produced before the disappearance of this culture in 16th century. Tainos were the principal inhabitants of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Florida before the settlement of the region by Spanish colonists. Similar to a fetish object, the Beaded Zemi represents a supernatural character with coexisting Taino, African and European features.

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Zemi, 2017, recycled United States military uniforms, lapis lazuli beads, turquoise beads, pearl beads, zinc beads, metal beads, gold plated beads, thread, and zipper, 22 × 24 × 13¹/₂ in. (55.88 × 60.96 × 34.29 cm)

Truth consists of an airtight receptacle filled with an ongoing archive of Weird but True columns from New York tabloids. It’s a physical ‘hard drive’ that comments on the fragility of preserving history on digital servers, databases and clouds that depend on unsustainable sources of energy.

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Truth, 2020, desiccator, newspaper clippings, and plexiglass column, 26 × 56 × 9 in. (66.04 × 142.24 × 22.86 cm)

I have made a series of artworks using recycled military uniforms as a canvas or support for responding to our recent American wars. These artworks were inspired by a subculture among American combat veterans where ex-service members deconstruct and transform their uniforms into artworks as therapy for PTSD. I was interested in expanding this practice as a way to honor the collective memory which transcends borders of the nation-state and honors the mutual bonds of war among all sides.

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Blood Ocean, 2019, recycled United States military uniforms, coral, lapis lazuli beads, turquoise beads, mother of pearl beads, jade beads, imitation pearls, military buttons and pins, enamel pins, safety pins, cotton thread, and wood, 52 × 76 × 2 in. (132.08 × 193.04 × 5.08 cm)

Bug consists of a weatherproof hard-case for electronic equipment commonly used in the military. A traditional pattern stitched by an Afghani artisan on the back of a military shirt is stretched across the case. A digital microscope is focused on a microchip embedded inside.

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Bug, 2018, recycled United States military uniform, digital microscope, motherboard, cotton thread, and weatherproof protective hard case, 20 × 22 × 17 in. (50.8 × 55.88 × 43.18 cm)

Blotter is another airtight desiccator box filled with an archive of the NYPD daily blotter clipping which ended its daily run in the printed paper in 2017.

Ignacio Gonzalez-Lang, Blotter, 2017, desiccator, New York Police Department daily blotter clippings, and plexiglass shelf, 8¹/₂ × 14 × 7 in. (21.59 × 35.56 × 17.78 cm)