Blinnk...and you'll miss it. Janet Goleas has a great blog that details art on the East End of Long Island and anything else that captures her amazing mind. Click on her site for her latest posting about our Winter Studio Residents...insightful.... amusing...and right on.
Blinnk.blogspot.com
http://blinnk.blogspot.com/2012/04/surface-value.html
Friday, April 27, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
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.
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.
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.
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.
DIANA SHPUNGIN was in a two-person exhibit at Drawing Now in the Louvre in Paris, presented by the Stephan Stoyanon Gallery in Manhattan.
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.
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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Variations from Urban/Suburban |
Sunday, February 19, 2012
The Third Degree
GETTING TO KNOW YOU...
We asked our Winter Residents to answer a few questions about themselves, the artists they like, the music they listen to and the books they are reading.... It's all in the interest of science. And curiosity. And nosiness. But their answers are thoughtful and interesting. We're happy to share them.
What artists working today do you find interesting?
Hmm.... although some of the artists I love are still alive not all of them are still "working". My all time favorite artist is Robert Morris. His work is thoughtful, playful, simple, and concise. He also has this wonderful ability to make me laugh even though I am not sure it is always what the work intends. His work and writings has influenced my work greatly. He is a huge idol of mine.
Hanne Darboven, although recently passed away in 2009, is another one of my favorite artists. Her work really plays with the boundaries as art as a tool by which to conceptually organize information and personally explore the essence of time. She does this through the use of organized / systemized daily writings which ultimately become conceptual records of both physical time and personal experience.
Two, more contemporary, artists that interest me are Rachel Harrison and Paul Chan. Both these artists have a unique way of addressing the use of simple objects to create complex systems which create both humorous and thoughtful results. They both seem to uniquely exaggerate and elaborate on the use of the "ready made" and create a new position for it within contemporary conceptual sculpture.
What's on your current playlist?
My playlist is always changing but I guess repeat artists that I listen to because I know I will always be satisfied are: Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, The Cure, Frank Zappa, Wyclef Jean, Beastie Boys, and Mos Def. Strange mix, but it does always please me.
What books are you reading and recommend?
I have currently just started reading Hal Foster: The Return of the Real and John Ruskin: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization. They are two very different writers from to very different times, haha, but both have proven to be awesome so far :)! I am very excited to get further into each. My all time favorite books that I constantly return to for answers / inspiration are: 1. Robert Morris: Have I Reasons. 2. John Ruskin: On Art and Life. 3. Tolstoy: What is Art? 4. Umberto Eco: Travels in Hyperreality. 5. Lucy R. Lippard: Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object...
I also really enjoy the book Speaking of Art. It is a collection of transcribed audio interviews with several different artists over a 40 year period of time. It's just an all around great book to own. The interviews are insightful, inspiring, and feel really personal. Great for any art lovers book collection.
What is a Fun Fact about you that isn't on your CV?
I am actually quite good at hula hooping. I can even run short distances while hula hooping simultaneously. And I welcome any and all challenges to this fun fact and would be happy to prove my unique skill!
What artists working today do you find interesting?
I get really into an artist’s work when I feel I can somehow relate to its internal logic. I love work by Terry Winters, Sarah Sze and Yayoi Kusama because they all create these complex visual networks that appear to evolve in a self-similar way while maintaining surprising elements in mark making, materials and environments. Lately I’ve been looking at the work of Amy Sillman and Ida Ekblad a lot. There is an energy in their work that I find really compelling – something systematic yet spontaneous happening at the same time. The work hits me on a visceral and a cerebral level, which I like.
What's on your reading list?
I have two books from the series Documents of Contemporary Art hanging around in my studio: Painting and Failure, They’re packed with great essays and interviews.
I’m also reading Just Kids by Patti Smith(really good) and I’ve started re-reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 ( a favorite book).
And on your playlist?
Umm, my play list right now is a motley crew of musical acts: The Roots, Massive Attack, Miles Davis, New Order.
What's not on your CV?
Life before art school: I rode my bicycle from Canada to Mexico and raised money for Children’s Wish Foundation in Canada.
We asked our Winter Residents to answer a few questions about themselves, the artists they like, the music they listen to and the books they are reading.... It's all in the interest of science. And curiosity. And nosiness. But their answers are thoughtful and interesting. We're happy to share them.
AMANDA BUONOCORE
www.amandabuonocore.com
www.amandabuonocore.com
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| Amanda Buonocore in front of a wall she excavating, revealing work of past residents |
What artists working today do you find interesting?
Hmm.... although some of the artists I love are still alive not all of them are still "working". My all time favorite artist is Robert Morris. His work is thoughtful, playful, simple, and concise. He also has this wonderful ability to make me laugh even though I am not sure it is always what the work intends. His work and writings has influenced my work greatly. He is a huge idol of mine.
Hanne Darboven, although recently passed away in 2009, is another one of my favorite artists. Her work really plays with the boundaries as art as a tool by which to conceptually organize information and personally explore the essence of time. She does this through the use of organized / systemized daily writings which ultimately become conceptual records of both physical time and personal experience.
Two, more contemporary, artists that interest me are Rachel Harrison and Paul Chan. Both these artists have a unique way of addressing the use of simple objects to create complex systems which create both humorous and thoughtful results. They both seem to uniquely exaggerate and elaborate on the use of the "ready made" and create a new position for it within contemporary conceptual sculpture.
What's on your current playlist?
My playlist is always changing but I guess repeat artists that I listen to because I know I will always be satisfied are: Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, The Cure, Frank Zappa, Wyclef Jean, Beastie Boys, and Mos Def. Strange mix, but it does always please me.
What books are you reading and recommend?
I have currently just started reading Hal Foster: The Return of the Real and John Ruskin: The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallization. They are two very different writers from to very different times, haha, but both have proven to be awesome so far :)! I am very excited to get further into each. My all time favorite books that I constantly return to for answers / inspiration are: 1. Robert Morris: Have I Reasons. 2. John Ruskin: On Art and Life. 3. Tolstoy: What is Art? 4. Umberto Eco: Travels in Hyperreality. 5. Lucy R. Lippard: Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object...
I also really enjoy the book Speaking of Art. It is a collection of transcribed audio interviews with several different artists over a 40 year period of time. It's just an all around great book to own. The interviews are insightful, inspiring, and feel really personal. Great for any art lovers book collection.
What is a Fun Fact about you that isn't on your CV?
I am actually quite good at hula hooping. I can even run short distances while hula hooping simultaneously. And I welcome any and all challenges to this fun fact and would be happy to prove my unique skill!
SARAH ELISE HALL
www.sarahelisehall.com
www.sarahelisehall.com
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| Sarah Elise Hall in her studio. The canvas in the background covers the entire studio wall. |
I get really into an artist’s work when I feel I can somehow relate to its internal logic. I love work by Terry Winters, Sarah Sze and Yayoi Kusama because they all create these complex visual networks that appear to evolve in a self-similar way while maintaining surprising elements in mark making, materials and environments. Lately I’ve been looking at the work of Amy Sillman and Ida Ekblad a lot. There is an energy in their work that I find really compelling – something systematic yet spontaneous happening at the same time. The work hits me on a visceral and a cerebral level, which I like.
What's on your reading list?
I have two books from the series Documents of Contemporary Art hanging around in my studio: Painting and Failure, They’re packed with great essays and interviews.
I’m also reading Just Kids by Patti Smith(really good) and I’ve started re-reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 ( a favorite book).
And on your playlist?
Umm, my play list right now is a motley crew of musical acts: The Roots, Massive Attack, Miles Davis, New Order.
What's not on your CV?
Life before art school: I rode my bicycle from Canada to Mexico and raised money for Children’s Wish Foundation in Canada.
PAOLO FORTIN
www.paulfortin.com
www.paulfortin.com
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| Paolo in his studio with the beginnings of paintings. What fun fact about you is not on your CV? |
I think this is more dirty than fun, but I have the habit of enjoying a fine Cuban cigar every now and again on warm nights in the summer.
What’s on your current playlist?
Music is extremely important in my life and it fills every hour of my day. I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to experience frequent, seven to ten day drives across Canada and up into the western arctic. As the hours and miles roll along it is music that creates the soundtrack to the changing images that I witness and utilize in my artwork. While working in the studio, music is constantly playing. What intrigues me most about music is how it can trigger involuntary memory and set the stage for your emotional and creative output. Through music, I am able to embrace my own Proustian, "episode of the madeleine", and retrieve memories that, although inevitably partial, tend to embrace the essence of the past. These ideas of recollection, essence and the transitory play a large part in my artwork and therefore, my work as an artist and music are inexplicably linked.
The music I listen to changes with the mood and time of day. Playlists tend to be on random much of the time and because I listen to a diverse repertoire, a typical playlist can bounce around with much contrast. It's not improbable to go from Anthony Pappa to Sammy Naquin to Lucinda Williams to NOFX, and then possibly
The Winter Residency Begins
THE THREE AMIGOS
Our Winter Residents arrived a few weeks ago during the nano-second that actually was our winter this year. They have spent the past few weeks getting to know each other and setting up their studios. Although they use different techniques and have different styles, their work shares a common interest in exploring the surfaces--including the actual surfaces of the Carriage House walls.
Our Winter Residents arrived a few weeks ago during the nano-second that actually was our winter this year. They have spent the past few weeks getting to know each other and setting up their studios. Although they use different techniques and have different styles, their work shares a common interest in exploring the surfaces--including the actual surfaces of the Carriage House walls.
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| Amanda Buonocore, Sarah Elise Hall and Paolo Fortin get together in Sarah's studio |
Sunday, February 5, 2012
If You Think This Is Cold...
THIS IS NOTHING WHERE I COME FROM
Paolo Fortin, one of our Winter Studio Residents, wrote to us last week to tell us he would be a little late coming to Islip because it was snowing where he lives...near the Arctic Circle. We got his message during the middle of our own snowstorm on Long Island, which dumped 4 inches on the sidewalks leading to the Carriage House. Around here, that's our idea of a natural disaster. Four inches? That's not snow, according to Paolo. But let him describe his life in Inuvik, Canada, and his difficulty getting here in his own words:
My plan was to arrive in the afternoon on Feb. 1st. I have a flight booked via Newark but may have to re-schedule as I keep an eye on the weather this week. Weather in the western arctic at the moment is terrible. We've just endured a five day blizzard and the temperature has dropped below -40F. I was stuck for three days in Whitehorse trying to get back home to Inuvik while flight after flight was cancelled. I returned home to a six foot snowdrift in front of my door. The road out (yes, only one road - think "Ice Road Truckers"...) has been closed more than it has been open this winter. It's my hope that I can still get south in time to catch my Toronto to Newark flight on the 1st, but I have to admit that it's day to day with the weather. I will keep you updated on the progress of getting out of this isolated place. It sounds ridiculous I know, but its a reality up here.
Hopefully, Paolo and the dog sled team will arrive sometime this week!
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| Our snowstorm last week was beautiful while it lasted, which wasn't long. The snow melted the next day |
My plan was to arrive in the afternoon on Feb. 1st. I have a flight booked via Newark but may have to re-schedule as I keep an eye on the weather this week. Weather in the western arctic at the moment is terrible. We've just endured a five day blizzard and the temperature has dropped below -40F. I was stuck for three days in Whitehorse trying to get back home to Inuvik while flight after flight was cancelled. I returned home to a six foot snowdrift in front of my door. The road out (yes, only one road - think "Ice Road Truckers"...) has been closed more than it has been open this winter. It's my hope that I can still get south in time to catch my Toronto to Newark flight on the 1st, but I have to admit that it's day to day with the weather. I will keep you updated on the progress of getting out of this isolated place. It sounds ridiculous I know, but its a reality up here.
Hopefully, Paolo and the dog sled team will arrive sometime this week!
Meet Our Winter 2012 Studio Residents
GETTING BACK TO ESSENTIALS
Three emerging artists have moved into studios in the Carriage House this month. Jason Paradis, the curator of our studio residency program, selected the artists because all of them are exploring essence. Whether stripping away layers of paint or removing surfaces on sculptures, they are reducing their artistic practices to the essential elements.
You can get a preview of what they will be doing here in the next three months by clicking on their websites. Welcome to the Carriage House!
Amanda Buonocore is from Nassau County. Learn about her at: www.amandabuonocore.com
Paolo Fortin in from Canada and Suffolk County. Meet him at: www.paulfortin.com
Sarah Elise Hall is from Brooklyn. Follow her career at: www.sarahelisehall.com
Three emerging artists have moved into studios in the Carriage House this month. Jason Paradis, the curator of our studio residency program, selected the artists because all of them are exploring essence. Whether stripping away layers of paint or removing surfaces on sculptures, they are reducing their artistic practices to the essential elements.
You can get a preview of what they will be doing here in the next three months by clicking on their websites. Welcome to the Carriage House!
Amanda Buonocore is from Nassau County. Learn about her at: www.amandabuonocore.com
Paolo Fortin in from Canada and Suffolk County. Meet him at: www.paulfortin.com
Sarah Elise Hall is from Brooklyn. Follow her career at: www.sarahelisehall.com
Friday, February 3, 2012
Up In Smoke
BURNING AMBITIONS
The fire was not what what we expected. Here's a fun fact: it is hard to create a fire of matches--counterintuative but true. And finally, the deed was done.
Hong Seon Jang's installation at the Carriage House this December had visitors gaping in wonder. Made entirely of ordinary kitchen matches, Parasite resembled a huge tree branch. The piece was based on fractal proliferations that mimic cellular growth patterns, particularly malignant ones. The matches connote fever and imminent danger.
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| The installation was over 20 feet long, made of matches glued end to end. |
When the exhibit ended, the artist asked the staff to deinstall the work. What other way to do so than to assign Parasite to its logical fate? In a simple ceremony we called "Burning Sensation," Hong Seon's hours of labor went up in smoke.
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| Mary Lou and curator Sara Kinsey carried the matchstick tree outside. Catch Mary Lou's Vanna White moment in the video. |
The fire was not what what we expected. Here's a fun fact: it is hard to create a fire of matches--counterintuative but true. And finally, the deed was done.
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| Though difficult to light at first, when the matches finally caught fire the blaze was bigger than we bargained for. See the video for our startled reactions. Pierce Cohalan, who captured the ceremony on an iPhone, kept us all from panicking. |
Saturday, December 10, 2011
TreeMendous Makes a Debut
TreeMendous, our exhibition of projects by our studio residents, opened December 4 at the Carriage House and will be on view until January 6, 2012. Be sure to see these amazing works.
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| Las Hermanas Iglesias Glitter Grenade |
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| Ken Butler plays his Urban Piano, an interactive sound and light installation |
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| Hong Seon Jang's Parasite was made of thousands of kitchen matchsticks |
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| Gisela Insuaste Overgrowth A theme and variations becomes a room-sized sculpture |
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| Alessandra Exposito Untitled |
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| Noah Klersfeld A still from a video form his Chain Series: scenes along Canal Street |
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| Sara Kinsey's Frozen in Time contained ice sculptures and reflected on global warming |
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Meeting and Greeting Our Old Friends
CARRIAGE HOUSE RESIDENTS AT THE OMNI GALLERY
Artists who were recent Studio Residents at the Carriage House were included in a group exhibit at the Omni Gallery in Uniondale, NY. The exhibit was curated by our Carriage House director Jason Paradis and hosted through the generosity of Omni Gallery director, Dawn Lee. Jonathan Ehrenberg, Emily Noelle Lambert, Yeon Jin Kim, Graham McNamara and Rob Swainston contributed installations, drawings and prints.We were glad to see new work that arose from ideas developed in our Carriage House "incubator" at their reception last Sunday.
Videos from Johnathan Ehrenberg
Emily Noelle Lambert's Installation
Rob Swainston's Installation at Omni
Graham McNamara presented new work at Omni
Yeon Jin Kim installed a wall of drawings, many created at the Carriage House
Artists who were recent Studio Residents at the Carriage House were included in a group exhibit at the Omni Gallery in Uniondale, NY. The exhibit was curated by our Carriage House director Jason Paradis and hosted through the generosity of Omni Gallery director, Dawn Lee. Jonathan Ehrenberg, Emily Noelle Lambert, Yeon Jin Kim, Graham McNamara and Rob Swainston contributed installations, drawings and prints.We were glad to see new work that arose from ideas developed in our Carriage House "incubator" at their reception last Sunday.
Videos from Johnathan Ehrenberg
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| Moon Moth, a still from Ehrenberg's video |
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| Still from an Ehrenberg video, included in recent Islip Art Museum exhibit |
Emily Noelle Lambert's Installation
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| Emily Noelle Lambert and her installation at the Omni Gallery, made of scraps of some discarded paintings |
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| Emily's studio at the Carriage House during her residency |
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| Emiily's installation in her Carriage House studio |
Rob Swainston's Installation at Omni
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| Rob Swainston at the Omni in front of his installation |
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| Rob's Carriage House studio space. He experimented with reflecting mirrors. |
Graham McNamara presented new work at Omni
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| Graham McNamara's new work is based on Carriage House experiments with wood and resin. |
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| McNamara's recent series deals with mapping |
Yeon Jin Kim installed a wall of drawings, many created at the Carriage House
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| Yeon Jin Kim's and her wall of drawings at the Omni Gallery |
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| Yeon experimented with abstract and fantasy modes, and used drawing as a base for her videos. |
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Work from the Studio: Sarah Hardesty
BETWEEN THE REAL AND IMAGINED
During her Studio Residency, Sarah experimented with three-dimensional sculptures that protruded from walls or hung from the ceiling as mobiles. She made a new body of drawings and paintings that explored several themes she has worked on in the past, including images containing drawings of birds trapped in actual string affixed to her canvas, and abstractions based on string and wood constructions.
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| Sara Hardesty continued her exploration of assemblage fusing drawings and mixed media |
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| Sarah Hardesty: abstractions and constructions. |
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Work from the Studio: Diana Shpungin
MEMORY AND MEMORIALIZING
Diana Shpungin memorializes memory and loss in her drawings and sculptures. Her new body of work includes sculptures that are overlaid with polished graphite, mirror-like in their perfect finish. The pieces are often "repaired" with bandage wrappings, glue and string, then presented in off-kiltter ways that make familiar objects seem strange and puzzling.
Diana Shpungin memorializes memory and loss in her drawings and sculptures. Her new body of work includes sculptures that are overlaid with polished graphite, mirror-like in their perfect finish. The pieces are often "repaired" with bandage wrappings, glue and string, then presented in off-kiltter ways that make familiar objects seem strange and puzzling.
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| In Diana''s unfinished chair sculpture, the left side has been rewoven in paper, the chair leg repaired with bandages and glue. The chair appears precarious and unstable. |
Work from the Studio: Ellie Irons
INTERVENTIONS IN NATURE
Ellie Irons creates a variety of work, including installations that are based on her interventions and subtle additions to the natural world around her. During her Studio Residency, she fashioned a bright yellow vine from debris left by Hurricane Irene in the park at Brookwood Hall--where the Carriage House is located. She then attached the vine to an existing tree near our lake and photographed the process. Although the lake paths are heavily traveled, few visitors studied their environment close enough to notice the strange addition--the point of the work.
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| Yellow Vines in the Carriage House Park |
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| Unexpected composition: Our yellow ladder with Ellie's yellow vine |
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| Ellie filming her installation Ellie described her experience, posted an account to her blog and took some stunning photographs while she was in residence. Take a look and enjoy. Her blog post: Her photographs: And here's what she wrote: "I've never explored a small, suburban patch of wilderness with the same attention to detail I would use in a larger, more expansive "truer" wilderness. Proximity to the patchwork of small parks and forested lands in suburban Long Island has allowed me to develop a very specific relationship to these isolated patches of forest...watching the changing of the seasons, and working in direct relationship to those changing has been really valuable." "I've further developed my concept of working "site-responsively" during this stay (as opposed to "site-specifically"). I've heard the term "site-specific" a few times before, and found it compelling. My time in Islip has demonstrated to me that this descriptor really does fit the way I work. I came to the Carriage House with a plan to work in the studio space creating a large-scale evolving sculptural piece that I would film over time for a video project. I ended up doing just that, but my large-scale changing sculpture became the forest outside my door, rather than what I built inside. The work I did inside became a direct response to what I found outside in the landscape. The Carriage House grounds are a fascinatingly hybrid place- the interior structure of my studio was totally compelling, with lots of freedom to work directly with the architecture, and the roll up garage-style gate provided the kind of access between interior and exterior that I would love to have in all my workspaces...and direct access to the hybrid landscape outside (suburban park/miniature wildnerness/forgotten forest) was really stimulating for my working style." "I further developed/honed a theoretical relationship to my work that I've been struggling to pin down over the last year...the chance to integrate my studio process directly with a long term relationship to a local outdoor environment was really unique and invaluable for me." |
Monday, October 3, 2011
Meet Our Fall Residents
Carriage House curator Jason Paradis has selected three artists for our Fall residency program. Sarah Hardesty, Ellie Irons and Diana Shpungin will be working in Carriage House studios through October. All are working on different projects, but they share an interest in drawing. Meet them, and follow their progress.
Sarah Hardesty
See her work at: www.sarahhardesty.com
Ellie Irons
See her website and work at: www.ellieirons.com
Diane Shpungin
Follow her on her blog: http://dianashpungin.blogspot.com
Sarah Hardesty
See her work at: www.sarahhardesty.com
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| Sarah in her studio |
Ellie Irons
See her website and work at: www.ellieirons.com
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| Ellie in the midst of an installation project |
Diane Shpungin
Follow her on her blog: http://dianashpungin.blogspot.com
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| Diana with her friend |
Thursday, September 22, 2011
A look at the finished projects by the artists who participated in Site Specifics'11 at the Carriage House from June 4 through July 24.
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| Jongil Ma You started winding it up I followed, going around it. Ma's piece is made of strips of balsa wood that are tied together to form an intricate room-sized maze. His technique, which uses few nails, reflects traditional Asian building practices |
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| Chuyen Huynh Peek. Huynh created a space in which viewers feel displaced by false walls, curved surfaces and painted shadows. |
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| Sandra Eula Lee Seeing Forest and Trees. The artist's installation considers the various ways we experience landscape. Her central element features a common indoor plant surrounded by a sculptural bench inspired by the kind of seating found in urban parks and city streets. |
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| Emily Feinstein Mothers Pool. Feinstein's installation is based on a pool outside the nursing home in which her mother now resides. The piece is both a tribute and a reflection on mortality. |
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| Olivia Kaufman-Rovira Grass Beings, Plastic Hives. The artist made this piece of wheat grass, discarded water bottles and an intricate pvc watering system. While it points to current environmental concerns, it also reflects Rovira's optimistic belief in human ingenuity. |
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| Rob Carter CIRCVLVS. Carter's fuses the sound track from Ben Hur with scenes from NASCAR races to reflect on class and politics. |
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| Junko Sugimoto Islip Spring. The installation is made of thousands of paper cylinders of hand-dyed to reflect the season in which it was created at the Carriage House. |
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Site Specifics'11 in the Making
Senior curator Karen Shaw has invited 7 artists to create site-specific installations in the rooms of the landmark Carriage House Workspace. Artists included in this exhibit, which opens June 4, are Rob Carter, Emily Feinstein, Chuyen Huynh, Olivia Kaufman-Rovira, Sandra Eula Lee, Jongil Ma and Junko Sugimoto. Join us for an artists' opening reception on June 4 from 3-6 p.m. and for a closing reception on Sunday, July 24, from 1-4 p.m.
See how our artists are progressing by checking our blog in the next few weeks.
See how our artists are progressing by checking our blog in the next few weeks.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Our Residents Are Here
Our Winter Residents are here and are already working in their studios. The Carriage House Workspace encourages artists to take risks and advance their careers in the arts. Look at their websites to get a sense of what they have been doing in the past. And check our blog for details of their new thinking and new directions as they work in their studios.
Emily Noelle Lambert is working in Studio 1. That's the one with the heat!
See her work at: emilynoellelambert.net
Graham McNamara is in Studio 2. He is creating work that uses materials from the grounds and parks on the Carriage House campus. See his website: http://www.grahammcnamara.com/
Rob Swainston is working in Studio 3. For insight into his work, check his website: www.robswainston.com
Emily Noelle Lambert is working in Studio 1. That's the one with the heat!
See her work at: emilynoellelambert.net
Graham McNamara is in Studio 2. He is creating work that uses materials from the grounds and parks on the Carriage House campus. See his website: http://www.grahammcnamara.com/
Rob Swainston is working in Studio 3. For insight into his work, check his website: www.robswainston.com
Friday, January 28, 2011
Winter Residents Are Coming!
Our Winter Residents will begin working in the Carriage House studios on February 1. Check the Carriage House blog often for updates on their projects and progress.
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