Past Residents
Past Resident2023: Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Mandy Espezel
Mandy Espezel is an interdisciplinary artist working with paintings and site-specific installations. Espezel’s works engage in an intersectional feminist-phenomenological discourse and investigate visceral representations of anxiety, desire, humour, and failure. She explores how intuitive processes manifest bodily knowledge, while questioning the division of the material and the conceptual and addressing the authority of a hierarchical-binary-system.
Mandy Espezel has exhibited work at Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Canada; Trükimuuseum Gallery, Estonia; and Space Gachang Gallery, South Korea, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Spring Open Studios
April 21–April 22, 2023
Mandy Espezel, Body Longing, 2021, oil on canvas, craft paper, works on paper, and wall painting, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Mandy Espezel, Submerged, 2021, oil on canvas, 88 × 681/2 in. (223.52 × 173.99 cm). Courtesy of Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Photo by Blaine Campbell.
Mandy Espezel, installation view of "Drip and Tickle: nothing ever is not true, nothing ever is always real," 2019, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Space Gachang Gallery.
Mandy Espezel, slipping into & against, 2018, mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of Studio PRÁM.
Mandy Espezel, Paper Fort, 2017, mixed media. Courtesy of Harcourt House Gallery.
Veronika Eberhart
Veronika Eberhart is a visual artist and musician based in Vienna. In her research-based practice, she seeks formal translation to her work through her transdisciplinary approach to video, sound, performance, and sculptural installations. She uses media to negotiate conceptual issues with the sensitivity of feminist and art historical artistic practices.
Veronika Eberhart has exhibited work at The MAK Center, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; and Belvedere 21, Vienna among others.
Veronika Eberhart, Dissident Blind (sinking), 2022, wood and screws, 82 × 86 × 51 in. (208.28 × 218.44 × 129.54 cm).
Veronika Eberhart, Untitled, 2022, exposed aggregate concrete, 8 × 28 × 11 in. (20.32 × 71.12 × 27.94 cm).
Veronika Eberhart, Dissident Blind (leaning), 2022, wood, screws and polyester, 87 × 66 × 110 in. (220.98 × 167.64 × 279.4 cm).
Veronika Eberhart, Garten sprengen, 2022, film, 12 min..
Veronika Eberhart, 9 is one and 10 is none, 2017, film, 22 min..
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2023: Vision Fund
Nathaniel Donnett
Nathaniel Donnett’s interdisciplinary practice explores imagination, notions of being, the in/exterior, and race through metaphysical and phenomenological spaces. Through abstraction and vernacular forms as language, his work challenges traditional modes of timeline narratives. Donnett recontextualizes materials and meaning by delving into subjects rooted in sociopolitical-cultural concerns and liminal spaces.
Nathaniel Donnett has exhibited work at Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Texas; Virginia Museum of Fine Art; and Project Row Houses, all in the United States, among others.
Nathaniel Donnett, Veil, 2022, backpacks, duct tape, tambourine jingles, fabric, plastic trash bags and sound, 48 × 96 × 90 in. (121.92 × 243.84 × 228.6 cm).
Nathaniel Donnett, To Know a Veil Yearbook , 2022, book, 81/2 × 11 in. (21.59 × 27.94 cm).
Nathaniel Donnett, in the break lies an invisible in-between that allows us to experience a spatial uncertainty, 2023, drums, mixed media, fabric, wood, LED lights and audio, dimensions variable.
Nathaniel Donnett, Birth of the Universe, 2021, drum, asphalt, tv/radio antenna and LED lights, 5 × 51/2 × 2 in. (12.7 × 13.97 × 5.08 cm).
Nathaniel Donnett, When You Start to Build a Wall, You First Start With Yourself, 2022, drywall, house paint, earring studs, books, incense, tamabourine jingles and LED light source, 90 × 101 in. (228.6 × 256.54 cm).
