Chris Bogia
Aug
21
to Aug 27
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Chris Bogia

Chris Bogia

Session 5, Week 2: August 21-27, 2022

Chris Bogia’s work reflects an ongoing interest in interior design and decorative art. As Bogia says, “My work sits in a queer space between contemporary art and decorative art, courting and resisting both worlds simultaneously”. Formally, Bogia’s work spans works on paper, textiles, and sculpture, frequently incorporating individually hand-laid strands of yarn into the surfaces of his work. Thematically, Bogia says: “I like to work on a primary subject as a series for an extended amount of time like bonsai trees, fountains, or mandalas, contemplating their potential as cultural and poetic symbols while investigating their forms through repeated design and color iterations until I feel I have extracted and imbued enough depth of meaning and visual delight in equal measure.” Bogia received his BFA at New York University and MFA from Yale University. He currently lives in Queens, New York. Bogia is the recipient of a 2018 grant from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, a 2018 Queens Council for the Arts Grant, the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Artist Community Engagement Grant, the 2015 Tiffany Foundation Grant, and was an artist-in-resident at the Queens Museum Studio Program from 2016 to 2018. Recent exhibitions include a 2021 public project with Art in Buildings in New York a solo presentation at Mrs. Gallery, Chicago, 2019; group exhibitions at Hesse Flatow, New York Primary, Miami; RUSCHMAN, Chicago; The Public Art Fund, New York Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Bric, Brooklyn; Mrs. Gallery; The New Museum; and a presentation at NADA with Mrs. Gallery in 2020. Bogia is the co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first LGBTQ artist residency in the world, located in Cherry Grove on Fire Island, and was FIAR’s acting director from 2011-2020. He is currently an instructor of sculpture at New York University.

Chris Bogia, Libra, 2018, wood, steel, yarn, raffia, grasscloth, walnut veneer, jute rug, 71 x 84 x 30 inches

 
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Chloë Bass
Aug
14
to Aug 20
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Chloë Bass

Chloë Bass

Session 5, Week 1: August 14-20, 2022

Chloë Bass (she/her) is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. Chloë has held numerous fellowships and residencies: she is a 2020-2022 Faculty Fellow for the Seminar in Public Engagement at the Center for Humanities (CUNY Graduate Center), a 2020-2022 Lucas Art Fellow at Montalvo Art Center, and was a 2019 Art Matters Grantee. Her projects have appeared nationally and internationally, including recent exhibits at The Pulitzer Arts Foundation, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Mass MoCA, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, BAK basis voor actuele kunst, the Knockdown Center, the Kitchen, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. 

Chloë Bass, The unparalleled mix of emotion, 2019, Laser printed aluminum with artist-written text on brushed aluminum stake, 5" x 8" (sign-face), approximately 16" tall, Installation view, St. Nicholas Park, Harlem, NY. Image by Scott Rudd, courtesy of the Studio Museum in Harlem

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Gina Beavers
Aug
7
to Aug 13
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Gina Beavers

Gina Beavers

Session 4: August 7 - August 13, 2022

Gina Beavers, born in Athens, Greece, creates paintings and installations inspired by photos culled from the internet and social media,rendered in high acrylic relief. Her series have included paintings that are based on body painting, social media snapshots of food, make-up tutorials, memes, and bodybuilder selfies. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions around the word and is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the ICA Miami, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. She has had two recent solo museum exhibitions: in 2019 at MoMA PS1 and in 2021 at the Neuer Essener Kunstervein. Beavers holds a BA in Studio Art and Anthropology from the University of Virginia (1996), an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2000), and an MS in Education from Brooklyn College (2005). She currently lives and works in Orange, New Jersey. 

Gina Beavers, Painting Georgia O'Keefe, Rothko and Pink Mondrian on my lips, 2021, Acrylic and foam on linen on panel, 71 7/8 x 73 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York and Aspen. Photo credit: Lance Brewer

 
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Harold Mendez
Jul
31
to Aug 6
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Harold Mendez

Harold Mendez

Session 3, Week 3 July 31 - August 6, 2022

Harold Mendez is a first-generation American of Colombian and Mexican descent. Working in photography, sculpture, and installation, his work often considers the transnational experience with an interest in how constructions of history and geography shape our sense of self. Mendez’s ten-year career survey premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2020-2021 and toured museums including the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has participated in significant exhibitions, including Being: New Photography in 2018 at the Museum of Modern Art, and the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Mendez's work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1; the Renaissance Society; Project Row Houses; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, among other venues. He has been an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; Core Program; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Headlands Center for the Arts; as well as the Kohler Arts/Industry Residency. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 

Harold Mendez, Field (Encounter), 2019, Archival pigment print, litho crayon, graphite and charcoal mounted on dibond in twelve (12) parts, 79" x 556"

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Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Jul
24
to Jul 30
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

Sara Greenberger Rafferty

Session 3, Week 2: July 24-30, 2022

Sara Greenberger Rafferty (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn since 2000. She is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Pratt Institute. She is the Chair of the Artist Council of Powerhouse Arts, also in Brooklyn, which will bring art and craft fabrication facilities and education to the community in 2022. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. She says, "My work incorporates analyzing, transforming, and quoting images and objects in culture to underscore socio political truths. I process images in culture, making them manifest in sculptural and architectural ways, to better understand the world, and present a simultaneous vision of critique and camaraderie."

Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Single Tablet, 2021, Fused and kilnformed glass, and hardware, 43 1/4 x 63 1/4 x 1 in

 
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John Kilduff
Jul
17
to Jul 23
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

John Kilduff

John Kilduff

Session 3, Week 1: July 17- 23, 2022

John Kilduff aka Mr. Let’s Paint is best known for the cable access TV show titled “Let’s Paint TV” which debuted in 2001, where Kilduff complicates his 35-year passion for plein air painting with comedic, dada-esque performances. After some time in acting school and improv training with the Groundlings, he received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. Kilduff has exhibited and performed recently during the 2021 Liste Showtime Art Fair in Switzerland and all over the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Wells Chandler
Jun
26
to Jul 2
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Wells Chandler

Wells Chandler

Session 2, Week 2: June 26-July 2, 2022

Wells Chandler (he/him) is a Bronx based artist who explores ecology, community, gender, and queer iconography through the mediums of crochet, embroidery, drawing, and cake. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2011 where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. From 2016 to 2017 he was a recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Diablo Rosso, Panama City, Panama; Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris, France; MOCA Tucson; Mrs., Maspeth, NY; Union Gallery, London, England; and Andrew Rafacz, Chicago.. Recent group exhibitions include The Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida;Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York Choi and Lager, Cologne, Germany; MOCA Detroit,Detroit, Michigan; and Marinaro, New York. His work has been reviewed by Roxane Gay, Art Forum, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, TimeOut, Modern Painters, Maake Magazine, Two Coats of Paint and AEQAI.

Headshot credit: Manal Abu-Shaheen

Wells Chandler, Warrior, 2021, hand crocheted assorted fibers, 40” x 34”

 
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Devin T. Mays
Jun
19
to Jun 25
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Devin T. Mays

Devin T. Mays

Session 2, Week 1: June 19-25, 2022

Devin T. Mays (he/him, they/them) holds a BBA in International Business and Marketing from Howard University. After receiving his degree, he worked in advertising developing brand strategies and commercials for the better part of a decade. He returned to school to pursue an MFA in studio practice from The University of Chicago. There, he developed an interdisciplinary practice he often refers to as an exercise in the infinite, a practice-in-participation, a practice-in-practice. Since then, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Driehaus Museum; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Lowe Art Museum, University of Florida; Nahmad Projects, London, England; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; Regards Chicago; and The Gray Center among others. He currently lives and works in Chicago.

Devin T. Mays , Mud Offerings

 
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Jiha Moon
Jun
12
to Jun 18
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Jiha Moon

Jiha Moon

Session 1, Week 2: June 12-18, 2022

Jiha Moon’s gestural paintings, mixed media, and ceramic sculpture explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She says, “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.” She is taking cues from wide ranges of history of Eastern and Western art, colors and designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, fruit stickers and labels of products from all over the place. She often teases and changes these lexicons so that they are hard to identify yet stay in a familiar zone. Moon is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Jiha Moon, Blue mustache, 2019, 14 x 9.5 x 5in, earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, glaze, wire, wicker

 
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Austin Lee
Jun
5
to Jun 11
Visting Artist, 2022 Summer

Austin Lee

Austin Lee

Session 1, Week 1: June 5-11, 2022

Austin Lee lives and works in New York. Born in Las Vegas in 1983, Lee received his MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art in 2013 and his BFA from Tyler School of Art. Lee's airbrush paintings often combine digital technologies with traditional media, while also working in sculpture and video. Lee’s work reflects his fascination with a digitally and technologically advancing world, the impact this has on contemporary culture, society, politics, and how it affects the way we look at art.

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