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AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Recipients - Spring 07

 

 

Paolo Bertocchi,

Paolo Bertocchi is an installation and performance artist whose work relates directly with the performer's body, sometimes encompassing it or being manipulated by it. Mr. Bertocchi's installations draw the audience in to question both the endurance of the performer/artist and outside cultural institutions. The performer's gestures are slow, calculated and precise. In this condition the human being is at the same time both present and absent, man and object, in a circling of two extremes.

 

 

 

Haegeen Kim,

Haegeen Kim works with graphite or colored pencils on paper depicting both faces and figures. Ms Haegeen's recent series focuses on portraits of young artists mostly, living in New York. She begins by photographing her subjects individually, wearing their normal street clothes and posing naturally. She then draws the images in a straightforward manner, adding animals to amplify the emotion of the subject.

 

 

 

Stephanie Lempert,

Stephanie Lempert questions and examines the different methods of communication and the various roles that communication plays in our society. By concentrating on the deconstruction of conversation and the analysis of the different methods depicting conversation, her work draws attention to the way in which various cultures interpret language. Ms. Lempert approaches her subject matter through object making, video and installation.

 

 

 

Dulce Pinzon,

Dulce Pinzon has found inspiration for her photography in feelings of nostalgia, questions of identity, and political and cultural frustrations. Ms. Pinzon's latest project "The Real Story of the Superheroes" comes full circle to reintroduce the Mexican immigrant in New York in a satirical documentary style featuring ordinary men and women in their work environment donning superhero garb, thus raising questions of both our definition of heroism and our ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that fuels our ever consuming economy.

 

 

 

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.