April:Where Are They Now?

Many of our past Carriage House residents have been in the news lately. We're happy to share their accomplishments. Just click on their names to view their websites.

JASON HACKENWERTH stunned our audiences with his massive balloon sculpture that was featured in our TreeMendous show in 2010-11. He created the "T" for the this week's New York Times feature magazine--and he most recently collaborated on the Guggenheim's holiday version of Peter and the Wolf. See more amazing work on his website.

The New York Times "T"  published April 1...no fooling

MIKE CALWAY FAGEN, who appeared in our TreeMendous 2010-11 show, is featured in More Real Than Life, an exhibit at Southwestern College this month curated by Alexander Jarman. His collages, sculptures and installations continue to engage us.

SHIRLEY WEGNER, a Winter Studio Resident, is showing new work in Israel. Rock Pile Scissors, curated by Ravit Harari. opens at the Dana Art Gallery at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai. Shirley photographs constructed environments to comment on the volitile politics of the Middle East.

From her Landscape Series

CHUYEN HUYNH in showing new work at the Jamaica Art Center in Queens this month. The foundation of all her work is automatic drawing, which she uses to turn three-dimensional spaces like this storage area in her gallery into two-dimensional perspectives.

Danger: High Voltage, a work by Chuyen Huynh

YEON JIN KIM is a featured artist in Spaceship Grocery Store at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ, this month. She uses old-fashioned drawing techniques in new and inventive ways. Her recent work begins with hand-made scroll drawings, many feet in length, which she films in a single take--creating a fusion of dreams, fantasy and reality.

Still from Space Ship Grocery Store

DIANA SHPUNGIN was in a two-person exhibit at Drawing Now in the Louvre in Paris, presented by the Stephan Stoyanon Gallery in Manhattan.

Diana Shpungin's I Especially Love You When Your Are Sleeping

STEVEN MILLAR is a featured artist in Urban/Suburban at the Islip Art Museum from April 11 through May 27. Steven was a Project Resident at the Carriage House in 2007, when he created a room-sized installation based on arial maps of our village. Join us at the Islip Art Museum for a reception on Sunday, April 22 from 1-4 pm. Take a walk across the Brookwood Hall campus and visit our Winter Residents during our Open House at the Carriage House.

Variations from Urban/Suburban