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

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.

McQuilkin is a professor of art at New York University. Recent exhibitions include the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Museo Reina Sofia, Centre Pompidou and MoMA PS1.

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

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

Artist-in-Residence: Nadja Marcin

//KIDS//, video-still, Blu-ray, 13.34 min, New York 2012

Nadja Verena Marcin is a German performance artist, based in New York City. Internationally recognized as one of today’s premiere New Genre artists, she focuses on human behavior, elemental emotions, and psychological responses linked to role-playing through video, performance and photography.

Love's Surrogates, live performance, 23.48 min, Elizabeth Foundation, New York 2010

Marcin received her MFA from Columbia University, New York. Her creations are exhibited in museums, art spaces/galleries and distinguished collections worldwide. Her work has been selected for grants, global biennials and film festivals, including: "KIDS", ZKM- Center for Art and Media, 2012; DAAD, New York, 2011;"German Photography Now", Jinsun Gallery, Seoul, 2011; “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow MOMA, 2010; ARTWORKinternational, Inc. Grant, 2010; Salon/Screening, ICA Philadelphia, 2010; Uncontrollable Flesh, Berkley Art Museum, 2010; Short-Term Deviation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2010; Kaunas Biennale, National Museum, 2009; Videonale 11 & 10, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, 2007/ 2005; Mediations Biennale, Poznan, 2008; Models of Self-Reflection, AZKM, Muenster, 2008; FIFA-Festival pour Film sur L’Art, Montreal, 2008; EJECT-Ex teresa arte actual, Mexico City; Fulbright Award, 2007; and Jumpnights, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 2007.

As in sciencefiction, video-still, Blu-ray, 6.34 min, Berlin 2007

For more information, please visit the artist's homepage.

Singing in the rain, video-still, Blu-ray, 4.22 min, Los Angeles 2008