Past Residents

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Past Resident
2019: Yoko Ono, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

Artist

Martha Skou

Martha Skou is an interdisciplinary artist who moves freely between audible and visual worlds. Both analytical and experimental, her work toys with opposites in color, shape and/or sound. She has created personal universes surrounding her work both in her collaborations and solo projects. Her language is abstract and atmospheric, with compositions in spatial formats as well as two-dimensional media.

Martha Skou has exhibited her work at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Telfair Museums, Savannah; and Pioneer Works, New York, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Fall Open Studios 2018

November 9–November 10, 2018

2018 Summer Open House

July 31, 2018, 6–9pm

Spring Open Studios 2018

April 27–April 28, 2018

Martha Skou and Louise Foo, Earth, Water, Fire, 2017, wood, conductive ink, and electronics, 18 × 18 in. (45.72 × 45.72 cm)

Martha Skou, Aldante, 2017, textile installation, 200 × 55 in. (508 × 139.7 cm)

Martha Skou, Largo, 2017, textile installation, 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)

Martha Skou and Louise Foo, City Birds and Duet, 2017, wood, conductive ink, and electronics, 50 × 50 in. (127 × 127 cm)

Ground Floor Residents

Sarah Zapata

Large-scale installation compromised of textiles.

United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Hartfield Foundation

Ground Floor

Sasha Wortzel

water meanders through a sawgrass marsh beneath a blue sky and clouds

United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council District 34, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso

Ground Floor

Simon Liu

Hong Kong, United States

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation

Ground Floor

Canada

Past Resident
2018: Canada Council for the Arts

Artist

Yann Pocreau

Yann Pocreau’s research has been focused on the narrative contributions suggested by light when it is staged in specific places. In his most recent projects, he puts forward traces of light and it’s presence as a subject. Though he works mostly with photography, Pocreau has experimented with other media, such as installation, animation, and sculpture, as he developed a series of interventions and works around artificial light, its materiality and its essential contribution to the artist’s photographic thought.

Yann Pocreau has exhibited work at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal; Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France; and Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, among others.

Events & Exhibitions

Living Room: UIT (Use it together)

February 12–May 10, 2019

Artists at Work: Stine Marie Jacobsen and Yann Pocreau

November 20, 2018, 6:30–8pm

Fall Open Studios 2018

November 9–November 10, 2018

Yann Pocreau, Impermanence 1, 2017, digital proofs and photograms, 33 × 20 × 2 in. (83.82 × 50.8 × 5.08 cm)

Yann Pocreau, Answer to Painting 1, 2 and 3, 2017-18, digital proofs and photograms, 52 x 42 x 3 in. each

Yann Pocreau, Archeology, 2017, bronze and steel, 92 × 111 × 110 in. (233.68 × 281.94 × 279.4 cm)

Yann Pocreau, The Light / The Time, 2016, 772 light bulbs found in a hospital and a controller system, dimensions variable

Yann Pocreau, Catherdral, 2013, blue back paper, light system, and intervention, 552 × 152 in. (1402.08 × 386.08 cm)

Residents from Canada

Antonietta Grassi

Canada

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Studio #208

Stanley Wany

Ase (pronounced “ah-sheh”; also spelled ashe) Yoruba words often have multiple meanings: Ase is generally defined as “the power to make things happen” and also refers to the spiritual life force that flows through things, much like the Chinese concept of chi. Deepening the exploration of my relationship with my ancestors, Ase, a drawing that measures almost two meters high by three meters long. For this piece, charcoal, a medium with archaic roots, is used to evoke powerful waves crowned by troubled sky. Towards the bottom of the drawings, the waves melt into abstraction, dripping onto the white surface of the paper. The title Ase, referring to Yoruba culture, embodies my ongoing relationship with my ancestors, those who perished in the sea as well as those with whom known ties have been cut by the transatlantic slavetrade. When creating this work, I also reflected on what it meant to be Black in the Americas and how my identity had been defined by the dominant society. I turned to the writings of Stuart Hall, Franz Fanon as well as of Edouard Glissant, whose concept of “creolisation” serves as a focal point in my practice going forward.

Canada

Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Studio #222

Kara Springer

A hanging wall work consisting of deep purple prints of high resolutions scans of clay hanging over a poplar wood rod mounted on the wall.

Canada, Barbados

Canada Council for the Arts

Studio #305

Austria, Germany

Past Resident
2018: Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria

Artist

Benjamin Hirte

Benjamin Hirte uses a combination of objects and text within his works to examine themes of semiotics, slang, and metaphor within cultural histories.

Benjamin Hirte has exhibited work at Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museo Canonica, Villa Borghese, Rome; and Leopold Museum, Vienna, among others.