Artist-in-Residence: Paco Marcial

Si je suis un prototype   Sculpture. Resin, metal, epoxy automotive coating, leather, wood, oil can, variable dimensions, 2010

Paco Marcial studied painting at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and passed through the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, Netherlands. Paco won the National Painting Award through his work with Taller Documantación Visual collective.

Paco later moved to Japan where he worked for curator F. Nanjo. It was in Japan that he met the artist Jason Rhoades and began a friendship that led him to coordinate his studio in Los Angeles. After traveling the world he finally realized that he was a Sculptor.

Tu es Petrus  Painting. Watercolor / oil / graphite on paper and canvas, 7 x 5 in. 2008

In 2008 he founded the Scuderia Marchal in Modena Italy, over the mythical Preda Ringadora in front of the Palazzo Comunale. That same year, Paco relocated to Berlin, and then moved to New York City. Since then the Scuderia Marchal has sought to consolidate among the Champions.

Exhibitions Paco has participated in include:

2012 Crimes of the Future, Noth Side Art Festival Brooklyn, NY. 2010 Short - Term Deviation, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts at the Project Space, NYC. 2006 The Chowchillas in Collaboration with Jason Rhoades, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, MX. 2005 Transcontinental Nomadenoase, Galerie Nomadenoase at Art Basel Miami Beach (Courtesy of Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienne). The path of Moons and Planets, The Crazy Space at 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica CA. 2004 The Grocery List, Art 2102 at The Mountain Bar, Los Angeles CA. 2003 Yield, Echo Park

Film Center, Los Angeles CA. 2000 Pasaje Iturbide, Museum of Mexico City, MX. Salón Octubre Gran Premio Omni Life, Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico.

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

About Us...

The Prattsville Art Center is an Artists’ Residency and Workshop Project in the rural mountaintop community of Prattsville, New York. In the summer of 2011, flooding from Hurricane Irene devastated Prattsville; half of Main Street was literally washed away, and the population dropped from 700 to 400. Many townspeople lost everything, and the local population is now struggling to rebuild. Artists participating in the Prattsville Residency are asked to divide their time between their private studio work, and using their energies to help the town to recover; lending their creative vision and energy to developing a program of artists’ workshops for local youth and rehabilitating a studio building, which also houses the teaching and gallery space for the workshops. Exhibitions will be organized and publicized collectively by the artists, the workshop participants, and the town.