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AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Recipients - Fall 06

 

Ernest Concepcion,
Ernest Concepcion's ongoing series "The Line Wars". convey his commitment to perpetually create anything imaginable engaged in conflict. The images are based on the entertainments of childhood and adolescence: video games, action figures, strategy board games- always two forces opposing one another. Each panel encapsulates a single battle. When viewed together, they take on epic proportions. "The Line Wars" is a celebration of making impulsive, nonchalant drawings, as well as a highly personal journey into nostalgia and an homage to geekdom.

The Line Wars. Ink on Paper+Audio. 2004. 54x120in.

 

 

Rachel Frank,
Rachel Frank is currently working on a series of large-scale animals sewn out of cloth and painted. Her work explores death and violence in one form or another. Ms. Frank often depicts animals such as wolves or horses that have characteristics or social organizations. This recent body of work explores both personal and public narratives.

Scaffold. Mixed Media. 2005. 19x78x57in.

 

 

Fay Ku,
Fay Ku focuses on issues of socialization within a narrative framework. The images come from memory, imagination and stories. The works on paper are about the capacity to think and give public meaning to the private, imaginative inner world. Though the images may be fantastic and/or personal, they resonate because Ms. Ku's view of the world and how she perceives it.

Part Reptile. Mixed Media on Paper. 2005. 36x50in.

 

 

Adam Smith,
Adam Smith creates large-scale dolls and places them in narratives that draw upon the available environment. The dolls are presented in an uncanny, in-between world that seems to run parallel to our own. They double as a foil for our own self-consciousness, comprising exaggerations of our flaws without our embarrassment over them. They are poised and collected with expressions indicating that they understand while withholding judgment.

Dolls. Installation. 2005. Dimensions variable.

 

 

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:
Ari Hiroshige (Curatorial Department, Queens Museum of Art)
Yukie Kamiya (Adjunct Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art)
Dolores Zorreguieta (Program Director, Franklin Furnace)
Chitra Ganesh (Mixed-Media artist Rotating Studio Program Recipient/Fall 05)
Steve Mumford (Mixed-Media artist Long Term Studio Program Recipient)

We would like to thank the following organizations and individuals who helped make this essential program possible: The NEA, 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.