Nancy Barton is an artist, writer and educator with interests in collaborative and experimental art models, psychoanalytic theory, and opera; Her work has been shown at many venues including MoMA, American Fine Arts, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Her writing has been included in RealLife Magazine, Work and The Image, ed Griselda Pollock, ArtUS, and is forthcoming in Lacanian Ink. She has chaired the department of Art at New York University, and the Photography Department at Otis College of Art.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Our Director: Nancy Barton
Nancy Barton is an artist, writer and educator with interests in collaborative and experimental art models, psychoanalytic theory, and opera; Her work has been shown at many venues including MoMA, American Fine Arts, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Her writing has been included in RealLife Magazine, Work and The Image, ed Griselda Pollock, ArtUS, and is forthcoming in Lacanian Ink. She has chaired the department of Art at New York University, and the Photography Department at Otis College of Art.
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Nancy Barton
Location:
Prattsville, NY 12468, USA
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Artist-in-Residence: Jonathan Wang
WELCOME TO ALASKA (video still), 2011 |
Jonathan Wang is an interdisciplinary artist currently based nowhere. His work revolves around popular photographic/video practices, spectacle, and socio-spatial imaginaries. Jonathan was also the founder and director of FOTO Project Space, a non-profit artist-run photography space in Cape Town, South Africa that serves as a flexible platform for disadvantaged township-based artists.
PULL (video still), 2010 |
THE HINTERLANDS (video still), 2012 |
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Artist-in-Residence,
Jonathan Wang,
Photography,
Sculpture,
Video Art
Location:
Prattsville, NY 12468, USA
Monday, August 20, 2012
Artist-in-Residence: Carrie Pollack
Knit, 2009, Pigment Print on Linen |
Carrie Pollack describes her work as an investigation between the
notions of permanence and impermanence, as well as uncertainty and
contradiction. She deliberately intends her work to function “more as
conversations than as statements”. Her imagery can often appear both familiar
and unknown, spanning both abstraction and representation. She thinks of the
process of making of her work as the evidence of momentary fragments in a
constant state of transformation. These fragmented moments possessed a
mysterious complexity, revealing a different way of looking at the world around
us, becoming visual metaphors, parts of a language. She uses her work to
contemplate the complexity of the human experience.
Poster 1, Pigment Print on Linen |
Carrie
Pollack
(b. 1973, New York, NY; lives Brooklyn, NY) works at the nexus between
painting, photography, and digital media. Pollack has exhibited her work
throughout the United States, as well as in Germany, Belgium, and Mexico. In
January 2012, Pollack mounted her first solo exhibition Witness at Minus Space, a New York gallery specializing in
reductive abstract art on the international level, where she is currently
represented. She has been previously awarded residencies at Yaddo, Jentel,
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She holds an
MFA from the University of Iowa, an MA from New York University, and a BFA from
Alfred University.
Soft Sky, 2012, Pigmented Print on Canvas |
You can view more about Carrie here:
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Artist-in-Residence,
Carrie Pollack,
Drawing,
Painting,
Sculpture
Location:
Prattsville, NY 12468, USA
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Artist-in-Residence: Marisa Mandler
Machine Drawings, Bleach compounds on paper. 2011 |
Marisa Mandler is a multidisciplinary artist working across the mediums of drawing, sculptural installation, sound and writing. Through mark making, transcription and recording, everyday events and actions become documented gestures which speak to a larger narrative about the impossible human desire for control and perfection. Culling from a multitude of imagery and reference material, Mandler finds associative meaning and draws comparisons between the personal quotidian and a larger collective experience. Repetitive processes of investigation reveal the peripheral, conceptual and emotional underpinnings of Mandler’s subject matter. It is through these revelations that the significance of this “negative space” becomes apparent.
Today:153 Sheets, Re-pulped magazines. 2008 |
Today:153 Sheets, Detail. |
Mandler was born is Los Angeles, CA. USA in 1980 and currently works between Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany. She received a Bachelor of Science in painting from New York University in 2002 and a Master of Fine Arts from University of Southern California in 2008. She shows with Wohnmaschine Galerie in Berlin, Germany and has exhibited in numerous group shows in both Europe and North America. She has participated in various residencies, most recently the Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing in 2010 and Kunsttraject in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2009. In 2009 and 2010 Mandler was awarded with the Willard Grant in Berlin, Germany. Her work can be seen in the public collection of the Kupferstichkabinett at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
February 26, 2009, Pen on paper. 2009 |
Labels:
Artist-in-Residence,
Drawing,
Marisa Mandler,
Sculpture
Location:
Prattsville, NY 12468, USA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Artist-in-Residence: Alex McQuilkin
Alex McQuilkin is a Brooklyn based artist whose work revolves around the nature of stories, both fiction and nonfiction, and the faith that we, knowing or unknowingly, place in them. Her videos investigate dominant modes of how stories are relayed: from fairytales, myths and oral history, to visual art, literature and cinema, to sources that present themselves as historical fact. Pairing iconic film imagery with home video and voice-over narration with emotionally charged film scores, her video works explore the transmission of power-driven belief systems and their representation in popular culture.
Joan of Arc, video still, 2007, two-channel video installation |
In her more recent shift to drawing and sculpture, McQuilkin continues this investigation through her use of materials that reveal an inherent tension between the strength of belief systems and of their material surfaces.
For a full biography, images and videos, please see: www.alexmcquilkin.com
Untitled (Forever), 2008, collage on paper |
Untitled (Escape Route), Mixed media (hair, saliva, string), Installation View, 2008-2011 |
Labels:
Alex McQuilkin,
Artist-in-Residence,
Collage,
Drawing,
Sculpture,
Video Art
Location:
Prattsville, NY 12468, USA
Monday, August 13, 2012
Artist-in-Residence: James Woodward
Waiting for Claire, 2012 |
James Woodward is a New York-based artist working primarily in video and sculpture. Born and raised in Oakland, California, he's currently pursuing his MFA in Studio Art at NYU Steinhardt where he also teaches Digital Photography. Selected exhibitions and screenings include the Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Queens Museum, New York; The Museum of New Art, Detroit; White Box, New York; The Maysles Institute, New York, Benrimon Contemporary, New York and Camel Art Space, Brooklyn. His work has also been screened at the NADA Art Fair, Miami and can currently be seen in a group exhibition at the Place Gallery, Portland. He uses individual and cultural refuse and is interested in regression, elegiac fetish, the subconscious and authority of language.
Still from Anthem, 2011 |
Claire, 2012 |
Labels:
Artist-in-Residence,
James Woodward,
Photography,
Sculpture,
Video Art
Location:
Prattsville, NY 12468, USA
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Artist-in-Residence: Damien Davis
From Nippon, With Love: Kids Stuff (Illustrator Study), 2012 |
Damien Davis is a American artist, based in New York City.
Born in Crowley, Louisiana, at a young age his family moved to Marlboro, Massachusetts before ultimately settling in Phoenix, Arizona. It is because of these dramatic geographical shifts that his work is deeply rooted on ideas of race, culture, and representation. His work in digital print, drawing and sculpture is concerned in deconstructing cultural codes and iconography present in modern culture.
Born in Crowley, Louisiana, at a young age his family moved to Marlboro, Massachusetts before ultimately settling in Phoenix, Arizona. It is because of these dramatic geographical shifts that his work is deeply rooted on ideas of race, culture, and representation. His work in digital print, drawing and sculpture is concerned in deconstructing cultural codes and iconography present in modern culture.
Damien received his BFA from New York University, New York, And is currently a candidate in to receive his MA in Visual Arts Administration. Past exhibitions he has participated in include: Luxury, Takasago International Corporation, New York, 2012; Brucennial, New York, 2012; and Peace by Piece Old Japan Bank, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan, 2005
To see more of Damien’s work, be sure to visit his blog.
Labels:
Artist-in-Residence,
Digital Art,
Drawing,
Sculpture
Location:
Prattsville, NY 12468, USA
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