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AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Recipients - Spring 05

 

Jeffery Gibson, painter, "My paintings use acrylic inks, oil paint, and pigmented silicone to describe a conceptual space that I call The Infinite Anomaly. The most recent paintings suggest an untamed landscape and the animated forms that inhabit this environment. The gestural and dimensional marks seem to crawl, sit, and slither across the surface. They merge with each other and spark new growth like an unstoppable weed or a deadly virus."

 

 

 

Adam Henry, multi-disciplinary, "The core of my investigation is a fascination with our system-oriented society. The work revolves around a process of splicing together various modes of systemic representation such as cartography, perspective, diagrams, and signage."

 

 

 

 

Eunjung Hwang, video and installation, "My projects start from creating a variety of characters which root in dreams and subconscious images. The characters unfold narratives by their fantastic reality following a structure of interwoven dream logicÉwhich is full of whimsical imagery looping through a series of imaginary narrative cycles of infantry, dream, death and the beyond."

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Najarian, sculpture, "I create sculptural fabric constructions that I invite the viewer to touch, reach into, or climb completely inside, encouraging a rich sensual experience that is as much haptic as it is retinal. The site of this haptic experience creates a blending of viewer and art object."

 

 

 

Nina Buxenbaum, Nina's work focuses on exploring notions of identity, race, and images as a means of investigating themes of changing personal identities. through investigation of objects we collect, Ms. Buxembaum seeks to reveal secrets through exploration of our material culture.

 

 

 

The selected artists demonstrated both artistic excellence and a desire to develop a creative relationship with the surrounding community of the Lower East Side. The 6-month residency takes place in the CSV Center located at 107 Suffolk Street in Lower Manhattan.

 

Panel members were:
Nicolas Dumit Estevez (performance artist/recipient of LES/RSP-03),
Abigal Child (filmmaker),
Susan Spencer Crowe (Sculpture),
Edwin Ramoran (curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts),
Nancy Friedemann (painter, AAI)

We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals who helped make this essential program possible: the John Herzog Family Fund, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Panel participants, and the AAI members who dedicated their time and energy to make this program happen.