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AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Recipients - Fall 05

 

Session 1: June - November 2005

 

Chitra Ganesh, Untitled, ink on velum, 17 x 14 inches each, 2005

Chitra Ganesh,
Through the use of drawing, sculpture, installation, and mixed media, Ms. Ganesh draws from a broad range of images, including Greek and Hindu mythology, 19th century portraiture and Bollywood and zine culture, to explore how memories and their repression shape moments of both personal and social crisis. During the residency. Ms. Ganesh will continue work on, Amnesia's Ravels, a comic book that creates an alternate mythology.

 

 

Linda Griggs, Scarlet Runner, oil on mounted canvas, 19 x 26 inches, 2003

Linda Griggs,
Influenced by traditional Dutch Still Life style of painting, Ms. Griggs, recreates bizarre, funny and true stories. However, rather than the traditional moralizing tone that Dutch Still Life's portray, Ms. Griggs subjects depicting class, race and death in rural America contain more of a demoralizing tone. These intimate stories, however, are lightened by the relaxed wit and wry humor of Ms. Griggs.

 

 

Rune Olsen, For Everthing I Long to Do, graphite on paper, 51 x 57 inches, 2005

Rune Olsen,
Desire and the physical expression of attraction converge in the sculptures of Rune Olsen. Mr. Olsen's skilled use of simple materials, tape, markers, newspaper and wire, to replicate animals in a variety of interactions, bring to life the tension between authority and complacency, the urge to create and the urge to destroy.

 

 

Nola Romano, The White Rat, acrylic on board, 11 3/4 x 30 inches each, 2005

Nola Romano,
a painter, uses the single character of a "girl " in each of her paintings to represent different aspects of her personality: mean, popular, clumsy, cunning or shy. The "girl ", slightly behind the times, is appealing, yet not quite admirable. The "girl " in the painting is surrounded with images that help narrate the story: animals, (that represent male characters), toxic clouds, a dilapidated monster suit, or a disposable camera.

 

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 will take place in the CSV Center located at 107 Suffolk Street in Lower Manhattan.

Panel members were:
Hugo Bastidas (Painter, Teacher, Arts Students League and New Jersey University),
Lisa Levy (performance/ conceptual artist and curator),
Livia Straus (Founder and President, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art),
Tumelo Mosaka (Assistant Curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art),
Mary Ting (Mixed-Media artist Rotating Studio Program Recipient/04),
Charlie Friedman (Mixed-Media artist Long Term Studio Program Recipient),

For AAI:
Suzanne Varni LES-RSP Program Coordinator, and AAI Member Artist
Lauren Rumley Assistant to the Coordinator
Mike Taylor Tech Services
Kylie Heidenheimer, Chang-Jin Lee AAI Member Volunteers
Suzanne Varni, Carlos Ancalmo, Paul Clay, Kylie Heidenheimer, Chang-Jin Lee, Shelly McGuinness RSP Committee

We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals who helped make this essential program possible: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 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 valuable program a reality.