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AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Recipients - Fall 07 (June 07 - November 07)

 

 

Jane Benson,

Jane Benson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is about material and identity transformation and the atavistic tension between natural and artificial forms of beauty. Benson appropriates design of culturally significant objects in order to question their original conditions and purpose.

 

 

 

Julie Anne Mann,

Julie Anne Mann plans to use her time in the residency to complete two large works, Madame and The Lovers, which are to be included in a new series of silver leafed panels based on photographs taken in Washington State. Ms. Mann's work reflects the dichotomies found in life, hope and despair, life and death or the reality of our precarious ecological relationships.

 

 

 

 

Alice O'Malley,

Over the past seven years, Alice O'Malley has collaborated with scores of downtown New York artists to create a photographic archive for the turn of the century. The pictures were made with a 4x5 camera, black & white film and natural light. During this studio residency, Ms. O'Malley intends to revision this collection, Rare Orchids, as a digital installation. In addition, she will begin a series of portraits of "handsome women" loosely based on the work of Romaine Brooks.

 

 

 

Claire Watkins,

Claire Watkins is an installation artist whose curiosity of the minutia and delicate actions of everyday life form the foundation from which she creates new work. The digestive system turns food into eyelashes. Neutrons fire in your hand with the memories of your life. Electricity has a visual presence in Ms. Watkin's work, and the machines that she builds reflect her awe and wonder of the energy around her.

 

 

 

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:
Katherine Brinson (Curatorial Assistant, Guggenheim Museum)
Christopher Lew (Curatorial Assistant, PS 1, MOMA)
Barbara Monoian (Lower East Side Gallerist, and visual artist)
Cat Chow (Artist, Rotating Studio Program Recipient/06)
Carlos Ancalmo (Artist, Long Term Studio Program Recipient)

The LES-RSP is made possible through the generous support of the following: The National Endowment for the Arts, The Greenwall Foundation and through the dedication and support of its members and interns. AAI is grateful for the continued support of the New York Foundation for the Arts and the City of New York.