cameron clayborn - September 2023
cameron clayborn (b. 1992, Pine Bluff, Arkansas) lives and works in New Haven, CT. clayborn’s practice pulls from personal history and lived experience, creating multivalent sculptures that are tender and intimate, abject and erotic.
cameron clayborn at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.
cameron clayborn (b. 1992, Pine Bluff, Arkansas) lives and works in New Haven, CT. clayborn’s practice pulls from personal history and lived experience, creating multivalent works that are tender and intimate, abject and erotic.
Visit cameron clayborn’s website here.
roompiercer (with a mended form) #2, 2023
Bronze
4.5 x 2.75 x 4.5 inches
Denae Howard (#Artschoolscammer) - September 2023
Denae Howard (#Artschoolscammer) is a Brooklyn-based Conceptual artist, visionary, educator, curator and advisor.
Denae Howard. Photo by Kerry Constantino.
Denae Howard (#Artschoolscammer) is a Brooklyn-based Conceptual artist, visionary, educator, curator and advisor.
Her/Their work promotes principles of sustainability and cultural equity by creating solutions. Foraging tools to navigate social, economic and environmental injustices - while problem solving with collaboration and play.
Her/Their works focus on imagining and illustrating the limitless opportunities of joyous existence for black and indigenous people. Highlighting imagery of anarchy, trickster-isms, taboo, confusion and ambiguity.
Her/ Their development is principal-ed in the transition of cultural institutions and museums as spaces run and maintained by Artists, Farmers, Griots, Healers and Revolutionaries to establish a narrative that uplifts and protects truth sharerer-s of our culture. By affirming community efforts, she anticipates to walk the path of trailblazers and stewards of the arts not as a collected silent voice.
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Veronica Perez - September 2023
Veronica Perez is an artist who works alongside the community to speak about erasure, identity, and interdependency.
Veronica Perez in the Pool Room. Photo by Kerry Constantino.
Veronica Perez is an artist who works alongside the community to speak about erasure, identity, and interdependency.
As a visual artist that is also a social and cultural worker, Perez uses these frames of reference to situate their work deep within intimate stories and experiences – and share them with a wider audience through sculpture and story.
In 2020, they were awarded the Ellis-Beaureguard Visual Arts Fellowship. In 2021 they were the inaugural fellow at the David C. Driskell Black Seed Studio. And In 2022, they were a fellow at the Lunder Institute at Colby College. Perez also subsequently had their first solo exhibition titled voices whispering at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
They are currently the Artists in Residence at the University of Southern Maine, teaching and working with students and the community in Southern Maine. Perez works as the Administrative Assistant at Indigo Arts Alliance, a Black-led arts and residency organization in Portland, Maine. They are also a co-organizer in Tender Table, an organization focused on uplifting the Black and Brown community in Maine through storytelling and food. Presently, Perez lives with her child and partner in Westbrook, Maine
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Elana Adler - August 2023
Elana Adler is a multidisciplinary artist. She uses the grid as a tactical mapping system, and a geometric configuration inherited from the past.
Elana Adler in the Pool Room. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Elana Adler is a multidisciplinary artist. She uses the grid as a tactical mapping system, and a geometric configuration inherited from the past. It is a constant variable that is continually translated and transformed. Utilizing the grid as an accessible visual language, Adler makes work inspired by complex systems and structures of power while challenging expectation through material potential. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Adler received a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and a MFA in Fibers & Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017. She currently lives and works in Portland, ME.
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Giggle by Elana Adler
Abdu Ali - August 2023
Abdu (Mongo) Ali is a Baltimore-based musician, writer, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, collaboration, video, and performance.
Abdu (Mongo) Ali is a Baltimore-based musician, writer, and multidisciplinary artist who works in sound, collaboration, video, and performance. Ali has performed their energetic and visceral shows at MoMa PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and The Kennedy Center. They have held residencies at Red Bull Music and Pioneer Works and in 2022 were a visiting artist at the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. Ali was also a recipient of the 2018 Ruby Artist Grant and 2023 USA Fellow. Ali received their BA in English from The University of Baltimore and will be a Literary Arts MFA Candidate at Brown University this Fall.
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Misoo Bang - August 2023
Misoo was born in the Bronx in 1980, but moved back to her parent’s homeland of South Korea when she was a one-year old. 17 years later, she returned to the US with ambitions to use painting as her mode of emotional communication and story-telling
Misoo Bang in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Misoo was born in the Bronx in 1980, but moved back to her parent’s homeland of South Korea when she was a one-year old. 17 years later, she returned to the US with ambitions to use painting as her mode of emotional communication and story-telling. Her recent work, The Giant Asian Girls, is the manifestation of Asian woman living in the western world who has hurt inside after seeing images of the dehumanizing, fetishized version of themselves, or felt oppressed by the stereotypes of cultural passivity. The Giant Asian Girls literally grew out of the intersectionality of racism and sexism that Asian women experience living in America. Misoo has exhibited in a number of galleries and museums across America and around the world. Misoo was selected as one of the Emerging Artist of New England in 2019 and Vermont Artist to Watch in 2020.
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Misoo Bang, Haebaragi-Natanya, Korean Paint, Sumi Ink and Acrylic Paint on Panel, 2022, 45 diameter
Christopher K. Ho - August 2023
Christopher K. Ho is a speculative artist based in Hong Kong and New York. His practice encompasses making, organizing, writing, and teaching.
Christopher K. Ho in the Sunrise Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Christopher K. Ho is a speculative artist based in Hong Kong and New York. His practice encompasses making, organizing, writing, and teaching. He is known for materially exquisite objects that draw from learned material about, and lived encounters with, power and otherness in an unevenly decolonized world.
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Charles Goolsby - July 2023
Charles W. Goolsby, professor of art at Emory & Henry College, has been a practicing professional painter and printmaker for more than forty years. He earned his B.F.A. in Art from Radford University and M.F.A. in Art from James Madison University.
Charles Goolsby in the Split Studio at SPF. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Charles W. Goolsby, professor of art at Emory & Henry College, has been a practicing professional painter and printmaker for more than forty years. He earned his B.F.A. in Art from Radford University and M.F.A. in Art from James Madison University. Goolsby's work has been featured in more than 45 solo exhibitions throughout the southeastern United States at various college, university, fine arts center, museum and commercial galleries. Blue Spiral I Gallery, in Asheville, North Carolina represents him. His work has received awards in numerous regional and national juried exhibitions throughout the United States. His work is included in a number of public and corporate collections throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Goolsby’s honors include fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Ucross Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. He was selected as a resident associate artist by the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida where he worked with internationally acclaimed artist Donald Sultan. In 2012 he was selected as a Fellow at VCCA-France at Le Moulin à Nef, a studio center in the Gascon village of Auvillar. In 2019 Goolsby completed a residency at the Cité Internationale des arts in Paris and returned to the Vermont Studio Center with a full fellowship. In 2021, two of Goolsby’s paintings were selected for Creative Quarterly: The Journal for Art and Design. In August of 2010, three of Goolsby's oil paintings were included in the highly selective journal, New American Paintings. One of Goolsby's paintings was featured in Oxford American Magazine's Fall 2005 issue on Southern Art and Architecture. His art appeared on the April 1989 cover of School Arts Magazine. In 2015 the Arts Alliance of the Mountain Empire awarded Goolsby an Arts Achievement Award for his significant contribution as a studio artist and teacher to the region of Southwest Virginia.
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Maria Hupfield - July 2023
Transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield crosses boundaries at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. Her work positions art objects as active belongings where sculptures become performers in a form of object choreography between artist, audience, and art gallery.
Maria Hupfield in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Transdisciplinary artist Maria Hupfield crosses boundaries at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. Her work positions art objects as active belongings where sculptures become performers in a form of object choreography between artist, audience, and art gallery. Engaged in an ongoing series of relations with community, places, ideas, and materials her influences include: Robert Morris, Simone Forti, Lydia Clark, Yoku Ono, James Luna, Joseph Beuys, Rebecca Belmore, and Rebecca Horn. An Urban off-reservation member of the Anishinaabek People belonging to Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario, Canada, Hupfield is deeply invested in embodied practice, Native Feminisms, and ethical collaborative process. She is currently the inaugural ArtworxTO Legacy Artist in Residence (AiR) Program with the City of Toronto, and a Mellon Distinguished Fellow, Center for the Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University (2022).This past summer she won the coveted Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Award and began her term as a nominated Lucas Artist Residence Fellow at the Montalvo Art Center in California. In 2018 she was awarded the outstanding achievement by a Canadian mid-career artist by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Her art has been exhibited at the New York Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, the New York Museum of Art and Design, BRIC House Gallery, the Bronx Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Site Santa Fe, The Heard Museum, and in Canada at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Galerie de L’UQAM, and the NOMAM in Zurich.
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Maria Hupfield
Jason Lujan - July 2023
Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas and now lives in Toronto. As an artist, he creates tools for understanding and interpreting the processes by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication and are later homogenized.
Jason Lujan in the Pool Room at Surf Point Foundation. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Jason Lujan is originally from Marfa, Texas and now lives in Toronto. As an artist, he creates tools for understanding and interpreting the processes by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication and are later homogenized. Largely integrating visual components rooted in North American and Asia, the work focuses on the possibilities and limitations of the exchanging of ideas, meanings, and values, questioning the concepts of authorship and authenticity.
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Carol Thompson - July 2023
Born and raised in a small town in Minnesota, in May of 1973, Thompson moved to NYC. Apart from a stint in Atlanta where she served as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum from 2001 to 2019, she has spent most of her adult life in Manhattan.
Carol Thompson. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Born and raised in a small town in Minnesota, in May of 1973, Thompson moved to NYC. Apart from a stint in Atlanta where she served as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum from 2001 to 2019, she has spent most of her adult life in Manhattan. Since January of 2020, she has lived in Harlem. Acutely aware of the unique challenges that accompany the task of diversifying museum collections within Eurocentric institutions, Thompson is committed to being an agent of change as she works toward social justice by advancing greater recognition of the art of Africa and of the African Diaspora. The art of Burkina Faso is a special focus. Since 1987, she has made seven visits to this little-known nation, including most recently, in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Another of her passion projects focuses on the art of street artist, the late Curtis Lee Levon Cuffie.
Lilly Hern-Fondation - April 2023
Lilly Hern-Fondation is a Brooklyn-based arts worker, writer, and artist. Originally from Los Angeles, she studied literature and photography at the University of Washington, Seattle and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lilly Hern-Fondation in the Sunrise Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen,
Lilly Hern-Fondation is a Brooklyn-based arts worker, writer, and artist. Originally from Los Angeles, she studied literature and photography at the University of Washington, Seattle and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently works as Senior Project Manager of Exhibitions and Commissions at MoMA PS1; previously, she held positions as the Programs Director at CUE Art Foundation and Project Manager at Creative Time.
Deborah Jack - April 2023
Deborah Jack, is a St. Maarten and Jersey City based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. Her work engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology and climate change, while negotiating a global present.
Deborah Jack in the Pool Room Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Deborah Jack, is a St. Maarten and Jersey City based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. Her work engages a variety of strategies for mining the intersections of histories, cultural memory, ecology and climate change, while negotiating a global present. Her work is featured in the exhibition Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990’s-Today at the MCA Chicago and will travel to ICA Boston in Fall 2023. In Fall 2021 Deborah Jack: 20 Years was presented at Pen + Brush in New York City. Group exhibitions include the Perez Art Museum of Miami exhibition and the traveling exhibition, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Brooklyn Museum of Art, TENT Rotterdam, the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, the Frost Museum at FIU, Portland Museum in Maine, and Delaware Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic, Whitehot , Frieze and BOMB Magazine. She will be a 2023 Changing Climate Resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Deborah is currently a Professor of Art at New Jersey City University.
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Untitled #8, from Intertidal Imaginaries: The Resistant Geographies of the Shore(coast) in the Aftermath of Saltwater(storm surges), 2021
Jackie Tileston - April 2023
Jackie Tileston (b. Manila, Philippines) spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid”, living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University.
Jackie Tileston in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Jackie Tileston (b. Manila, Philippines) spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid”, living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Art in General, the Painting Center and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Tileston is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and residency Tileston lives and works in Philadelphia, where she is an Associate Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Hilary Irons - April 2023
Hilary Irons is a Maine-based painter and curator. She is Gallery and Exhibitions Director at the University of New England, and is represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery.
Hilary Irons in the Split Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Hilary Irons is a Maine-based painter and curator. She is Gallery and Exhibitions Director at the University of New England, and is represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery. She received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in '08 and a BFA from Parsons School of Design in '02, and has attended residencies at the Albers Foundation, Skowhegan, MacDowell, the American Academy in Rome, the Pace House, Hewnoaks, and the Canterbury Shaker Village.
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Karen Gelardi - March 2023
Karen Gelardi is a Maine-based artist working across varied mediums to test the elasticity of imagery and to model resilient systems. Influenced by Bauhaus principles, Karen combines fine art, craft, and industrial production processes in her practice.
Karen Gelardi in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Heather Henriksen.
Karen Gelardi is a Maine-based artist working across varied mediums to test the elasticity of imagery and to model resilient systems. Influenced by Bauhaus principles, Karen combines fine art, craft, and industrial production processes in her practice. Karen has been awarded residencies at Hewnoaks Artist Colony and the Quimby Colony and received grants from the Maine Arts Commission and the St. Botolph Club Foundation. Karen has exhibited her work at Coleman Burke and Curator galleries in New York, Northern-Southern in Texas, and widely throughout Maine including the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Able Baker Gallery, Perimeter, Interloc, Space Gallery, and the Map Room.