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AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Recipients - Spring 06

 

Session 2: December- May 2006

Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua,

are artists whose work crosses disciplines, and actively engages the community. Often blurring the lines between work, play, manhood and boyhood, their process is elastic, crossing genres, mixing materials, and collaborating with others. During the residency, Mr. Bercowetz and Mr. Bua will work on a low-tech movie with local teen-agers collecting and re-enacting urban myths ad current neighborhood stories.

 

Amy Chan,

primarily works in gouache on paper, painting landscapes specific to her experience of growing up in the suburbs of Connecticut, where alternating slices of nature, suburban development and isolated historical remains closely border each other but seldom mix. Conjuring from memory mixed emotions of nostalgia, desire and discomfort, Ms. ChanÕs work portrays a landscape that is alternately funny, lonely and desperate.

 

 

Cat Chow,

She is a multi-media artist most recently working in Chicago. Ms. Chow's use of unconventional and common materials asks that the viewer challenge his or her presumptions about the usage of everyday items and how it relates to issues of social context and sexual identity. For the residency, Ms. Chow plans to develop a new body of work that incorporate the materials and resources available in New York, in particular the Lower East Side.

 

Jenny Rogers,

Ms. Rogers hilarious 2004 Video, entitled, Trick Saddle, sets a Spaghetti Western underwater to critique the absurdity of gender categories-"masculinity" staged as synchronized underwater cowboy ballet. During the film, scenes from the dying and desperate culture of Western Movies, the gun fight, the brawl, are played out as a series of ritualized stoic poses. Ms. Rogers will use the residency to begin an ambitious new project in collaboration with theater artist Clove Galilee. Together they will create a theatrical piece called Wickets that takes place in a shape-shifting surrealist painting.

 

 

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.