Andy Ducett
Andy Ducett (Minneapolis, MN) is from Winona, MN and received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois and his B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Stout. He has over 20 years of creative experience, and has been working in higher education for the last 15, most recently as Visiting Faculty in the MFA Program at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work has been shown in galleries and museums around the country, and is in the collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and The Walker Art Center. He has been featured by Artforum, New American Paintings, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post, as well as publications in Toronto, Berlin, Tokyo, and London. He was the recipient of a 2017 McKnight Visual Arts Fellowship, and is listed on the curated registry of the Drawing Center in New York City. He is currently working on a commissioned wall drawing for Travail Kitchen and Amusements and recently completed a series of projects commissioned by SITE Santa Fe.
Residency: June 22, 2011 - July 5, 2011
Claire Cronin
Santa Monica, CA
May 18, 2011 - May 26, 2011
website | claire cronin dot com
Claire was born in Santa Monica, California in the eighties. She makes drawings, paintings, psychic performances, and songs.
Valerie Salez
Halifax, Nova Scotia
May 4, 2011 - May 31, 2011
"As both an artist/person I celebrate creative tangents and deny categorical chains. Projects look to the creative and social potential of directionless meanderings, spontaneity, obsession, dreams, the unknown and the yet-to-be-discovered as a means of investigating cultural structures. Artistic engagement takes form in a multitude of ways."
- Valerie Salez
Norbert Attard
Malta
May 4, 2011 - May 31, 2011
website | norbert attard dot com
Norbert Francis Attard, an installation artist with an international reputation, has made a name for himself with his poetic and original approach to a multifarious series of artistic projects. His work combines social, cultural and political aspects together with overlays of scientific and religious themes. Always using unorthodox materials, his creations manifest a constant architect’s disciplined eye for detail.Born in Malta in 1951, Attard now works from his Gozo-basedstudio. The unique pre-history of Malta and Gozo and the characteristics of the overall Mediterranean spirit of place have provided inspiration for many of his works. Trained as an architect, he practiced the profession for twenty years until 1996, during which period he also worked as an artist creating prints, posters, postage stamps and other works.In 1998 he turned to installation art and has since worked in several disciplines merging expressions of architecture, sculpture, video and photography in different and various media. The relationship of his work to place and memory of site is fundamental, as is also his attempt to create balance and harmony through inter-relatedness of contradictory themes.