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AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program Recipients - Spring 09

 

Christopher Clary

 

 

At an early age homos learn how to project what others want, so being isn’t so much a natural state but a conscious act. Christopher Clary exposes such moments of intimacy, sadness, humor, lust, even boredom for the camera in his portraiture turned striptease. Whereas the printed image is covered up and sometimes fragmented using family albums. So in action, a flipbook remains in a perpetual state of becoming. www.christopherclary.com

 

Mike Estabrook

 


 

My work uses dark psychological and political themes as a source of personal expression. I express these things in a language that is psychedelic, monstrous and funny.

Most of my work falls into two basic types: Works that play with the appropriation and subversion of politically loaded materials or images, and those that are an expression of my own personal visual language. I employ a wide range of media in all of these works, but in general, the first category is more often painting, video or animation, and the second category is mostly drawing. http://www.artcodex.org/mike_estabrook/

 

Min Oh

 

Let me tell you Min Oh's three secrets in public. First, she picks up little particles of everyday life — finding moments where our reasonable and unreasonable parts work together. Second, she weaves stories with them — the stories with two qualities conflicting, but at the same time, keeping weird balances — sweet but disturbing, naive but violent, rational but personal. Last, she bothers people to make them laugh with her stories. 

For more secrets: www.min-oh.net


 Oraib Toukan

 


"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society- to retreat ahead of it"

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, 1975. 

The Middle East Auction is set in 2012 and will be auctioning off Middle Eastern countries as whole-nation purchasable territories at 99-year leaseholds.  The project is based on researching, studying and appropriating the language of the property development market, of contemporary art auctions, and of working with an economist at the Bank of England to arrive at real data. The rise of the corporate real estate market and its associated language and imagery prompted this project. www.oraibtoukan.com

 

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:


Christopher Ho(Artist)

Monica Lorduy(Art Advisor)

Julie Ann Mann(Fall 07, Rotating Studio Program Resident)

Bill Massey(Long Term Studio Resident)

Lauren Rosati(Assistant Curator, Exit Art)

 

This program is supported in part, by public funds by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. We would also like to thank the following organizations and individuals who helped make this essential program possible; the Panel participants, Zeina Assaf, Program Manager, Lisa Hanson, Arielle Kilgore, Kristina Rohde, Program Assistants

and the AAI members who dedicated their time and energy to make this program happen.