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Invitation Open Studio Day
The current artists of the December residency program |
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Meghan Fulkerson, USA Brooklyn based printmaker/painter Meghan Fulkerson is looking to create an environment which represents her disorientation in a new city. She combines her figurative work with patterns that are a bit more psychedelic, to create an atmosphere of bubbling thoughts and inspirations that only a foreign land could bring about. She hopes to draw connections and glean new insights about the differences and similarities between New York and Berlin. Meghan Fulkerson on the web |
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Georgina Gratrix, South Africa Born in Mexico City (1982), Cape Town based artist Georgina Gratrix’s creative output includes drawing, printmaking and painting with a primary focus on portraiture. Her subject matter ranges from Hollywood ‘party-girls’ to re-mixing Old Masters. Drawing inspiration from both the sacrosanct icons of high art and vibrant popular culture, Gratrix uses portraiture to examine the cult of celebrity, aesthetic hierarchies within art history, and the role of painting within contemporary practice. Georgina Gratrix on the web |
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Scott Grow, USA My work attempts to interpret and explore the central issues of abstract painting and what abstract painting is and can be today. To rethink the boundaries of painting. Paintings that no longer want to be viewed as pictures. I am interested in the relationships of form, color, process and material, as they come to express concepts of presence and absence, intention and involvement. Through the arrangement of paintings and/or sculpture within a particular space, I wish to create an aesthetic experience in which people may take a moment to reflect on the purity of form and means, with in abstraction. Scott Grow on the web |
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Pearl Heneghan, Ireland When does body shed stop being us? Previously admired as part of the body, it is rejected as a fragment of self. A build up of excess body matter growing with time and movement and defining in form to create a new self separate to the body -The lonesome tumbleweed Pearl Heneghan on the web |
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Wai Kit Lam, Hongkong Wai Kit Lam continues to explore the notion of language in her last month residency in Berlin. And this time she collaborates with a London based Italian artist, Ivan Lupi. This new series entitled 'This is not a Portrait', Wai Kit Lam and Ivan Lupi reveal a condition of illusory idea about identity. It starts at a loss in translation while Wai Kit Lam was confused by the German names of cosmetic products. She spent a long time in front of the branches in a cosmetic shop, by only choosing and understanding the names if they are the right products she needed. In the end she wasted her time with something that is in fact not important in her life. So what is the importance of choosing and using cosmetic products; do they really help and represent our own self? Ultimately it fabricates us with fake identity. It is because those deceptive masks construct a self that is not belonged to our own, and that is only a superficial presentation of which our society constructs us. That is not a genuine self and with mask everyone has already lost his/her own identity. In truth we present and deceive not only to the others, but also to our own selves. Lam graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 1996. In 2003, she received her MFA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wai Kit Lam on the web |
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Amy Joy Watson, Australia In my recent art practice I have been thinking about real and imagined worlds co-existing. Familiar rocky scenes, snowy vistas and rickety wooden constructions find life in another existence, perhaps from our world or a place taken over by dreams, memories and imaginings. Here spaces collide with rock vessels birthing new landscapes and jewels and meteorites cracking open to reveal magical worlds within. These self-contained works are constructed worlds that the viewer can stand outside of and peer into. In these worlds, the slick and plasticised qualities of contemporary society are erased and replaced with an aesthetic reminiscent of aged photographs or shots from a 1940s set of encyclopaedia (rich resources for me). This aesthetic, in combination with delicate hand-stitching and slow-made segments of finely cut balsa, suggests a nostalgic re-valuing of customs and pastimes from our times past. Amy Joy Watson on the web |
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Christina Reginelli, USA Christina Reginelli is a brooklyn based artist. Her work deals with the push and pull of atmospheric space. It use symmetry and monotypes that are layered in conjunction with wet and dry media on paper. Due to the fact that she use monotypes, the predictability of my work is not in my hands. This chance action, she finds to be very compelling. She benefits from the chance action and reacts to what it gave her rather than react to her own marks. The content of my work is derived from the inkblot and psychological tests. The correlation is the idea of projection and how symmetrical ambiguous stimuli can generate an image for the viewer’s interpretation. Christina Reginelli on the web |
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Shirley Wiebe, Canada For December, Shirley Wiebe has chronicled her Berlin experience with a month long sketch. The mixed media drawing is an accumulation of impressions triggered by sights, occurrences, and dreamscapes. A fantastical odyssey unfolds on sheets of watercolour paper covering one wall of the studio. The staircase of last month’s focus evolves into a new sculptural form that accompanies the Month Long drawing – an entry point into its mystical realm, along with a soundscape. A series of monochromatic machine stitched drawings on tracing paper examine themes of ascent/descent. Shirley Wiebe on the web |