Autumn Residency 2014
Artists in Residence, 2014
Images above top left from the installation You Cannot Eat an Image and an Image Cannot Eat You by Joey Bryniarska, top centre Bam! by Mathilde Ganancia, top right Untitledfrom the series We Make the Path by Walking by Paul Gaffney, bottom left Run Away by Woosung Lee and bottom right Steeple Chase by Emma Schwartz.
Joey Bryniarska
My work is an investigation into the status of images and the effect that technological innovation has had on our perception of the visual. Using traditional and digital reprographics, sculptural props, painting, drawing and text, I addresses the dichotomy between the idea that a machine’s function is to reveal or produce, and conversely its inevitable constructive force to create whoozy, broken, illogical or ‘wrong’ representations of reality. Viewing tools and machines as creatures with pronounced vestigial features, I highlight a parasitical dependency between forms of imagery and reproduction, ornamental deceit and the conditions of spectatorship.
www.joeybryniarska.squarespace.com
Mathilde Ganancia
I keep on exploring new possibilities responding to all sorts of problems. “What ifs” are obsessing me so often I am constantly starting from scratch, quickly jumping from one idea to another. The things I make are always triggered by a new impulse erasing the last. However, even though this will never make me a specialist, it gives an opportunity for anything to enter my field of interest.
Paul Gaffney
Paul Gaffney’s research is aimed at developing a meditative approach to landscape photography and explores how the act of image making can enable and disrupt a sense of connection with one’s surroundings. Drawing on Arnold Berleant’s theory of a ‘participatory approach’ to landscape, in which the artist, environment and viewer are considered to be in continuous dialogue with each other, Gaffney’s practice proposes to communicate an experience of immersion in nature to the viewer.
www.paulgaffneyphotography.com
Woosung Lee
The moments and feelings that are filtered and collected in my life have created a strange combination. They are expressed as ordinary objects or situations created by people in the painted images. At the same time, the unreal combinations from the collision of different objects become a narrative that represents a reality. There is almost no serial piece in the body of work. All my works represent different yet identical threads/connections because they are initiated from the countless questions of what to paint. However, they can be described as a depiction of various attitudes conveying the ‘present’ at all times.
www.woosunglee.kr
Emma Schwartz
My work is predominantly driven by critical inquiry of modern American cultural phenomena and its conversation with economics. I am curious how current realities of American culture relate to our visual history. The way I draw often reflects formal, structural, and stylistic qualities of paintings and drawings that were made during the beginning of the republic, the early 19th century, a time in which excitement for the new country led to many citizens eagerly attempting to document its inception through painting. Looking at current American realities and identities I have experienced, my work uses the aesthetics of the vernacular in which I exist to describe ideas surrounding leisure, themes, race, and recreation.
www.erschwartz.com
