Travis Janssen
Tempe, Arizona
June 5, 2008 - July 8, 2008
website | travis janssen dot com
Travis Janssen received an MFA in Printmaking from Arizona State University in 2007 and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2000. His creative practice focuses on printmaking while extending into the mediums of video and installation. Janssen is also engaged with collaborative processes and cross-disciplinary investigation, having collaborated with a variety of individuals on a diverse range of projects including prints and documentary videos. The exploration of perception and reflection within conscious and unconscious viewing experiences is a common thread throughout his work, often distilling events within the human condition. To this end, it is his implicit goal that viewers develop recognition of intriguing phenomena and further understanding about the visual world. Over the last five years he has shown work in over seventy exhibitions across the United States and venues in New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Claire van der Plas
Claire van der Plas (Sylva, NC)
“I currently live in Alamosa CO where I am the chair of the Art Department at Adams State University. I have taught in New Zealand, Singapore and North Carolina before moving to Colorado. While primarily a painter I also work in other media including installation, performance and collaborative art when the opportunity arises. I have exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States.”
Residency: April 1, 2008 - June 16, 2008
During her residency, Clair created the Totally Nice Travel Agency and helped organize Elsewhere’s participation in Greensboro’s annual Fun Fourth Parade and Festival in 2009. That year, Clair organized a project of mail art of Elsewhere alumni (ETC’s) in New Zealand called “Elsewhen Meanwise Otherwhere” and its exhibition in Greensboro in 2009 called “Messages.”
Ian Gamble
Ian Gamble is a multimedia artist with strong ties to artists, farmers, and old time musicians in Rockingham County, NC. He hosts visiting artists and facilitates their work for the rural outreach project at Reckon Holler, a creative site and art project within his family home in Rockingham. Gamble curated the 2018 Rural Residency, facilitated on-the-ground work, and was a lead artist of Elsewhere Goes To Madison-- an off-site Elsewhere Elsewhere project in partnership with Reckon Holler.As a maker, Gamble toggles between carpenter, potter, sculptor, and tailor. Gamble was also an Elsewhere Curator in 2007 & 2008. While at Elsewhere in 2007, he produced The Skyscraper.
Susannah Mira
Philadelphia, PA
May 1, 2008 - May 31, 2008
website | susannah mira dot com
Susannah Mira completed her master's degree in Environmental Art at the University of Art & Design Helsinki in 2008. Born in San Francisco and raised in a nondescript Philadelphia suburb, she champions a highly itinerant artistic practice based out of a late '80s model station wagon. Currently, the Mesilla Valley of southern New Mexico is home.
Les Caison III
Greensboro, NC
April 16, 2008 - May 27, 2008
website | les iii dot com
North Carolina artist Les Caison III offers considerations of life every day. He paints and illustrates, layering oil and graphite capturing moments of life just before or just after . . . whether portraiture, urban landscapes, or narratives Les offers just a little bit more for you to gnaw on. This young internationally collected artist enjoys offering visual communication to the masses, citing a responsibility of the visual artist to display, provoke and interact with others.
Jason Watson
Boone, NC
April 8, 2008 - May 5, 2008
website | j watson art dot com
blog | jason watson dot vox dot com
Guerra de la Paz
Cuban born American artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the collaborative duo Guerra de la Paz . Originally sourcing their materials from the waste bins of second-hand goods shipping companies in Miami’s Little Haiti, Guerra De La Paz make their sculptures from the discarded items of daily life. Viewing their practice as a kind of ‘archaeology’, their work engages with the history inherent in common debris and its possibility for recycled usage.
Monique Besten
Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 7, 2007 - June 26, 2007
October 4, 2007 - October 23, 2007
website | monique besten dot nl
Art Codex
Brooklyn, New York
July 21, 2007 - August 6, 2007
Artcodex is a group of artists who all have their own individual practice but also enjoy collaborating on larger projects. At the core of our collective practice is an investigation of contemporary social, political and economic issues. The War Show, a series of exhibitions exploring the idea of antagonistic collaboration, invited artists to duel through their artwork, and was staged in several forms: as duels between pairs of artists in Tactics at Future Prospects in Manila, Philippines; as a group attack in Invasion at Art of This in Minneapolis, MN; and as a war of history in Archive at ABC No Rio in New York City. Themes we have addressed in our projects include Native vs. Non-Native, Gentrification, Homeland Security, and Boom Town Economics. In 2007, Artcodex was invited to Elsewhere in Greensboro, NC to participate in an experimental residency, and produced a short video, The Curse of Kudzu Mountain. In Fall 2010, artcodex organized a show in Minneapolis around the themes of foreclosure and real estate. Currently, we are exploring the relevance of notions of utopia and idealism and hope to modern society through a particapatory project called Ghost Modernism.The collective members vary from project to project. but at it core, artcodex is comprised of Vandana Jain, Mike Estabrook, Brian Higbee, Glen Einbinder, Jason Lujan and Maria Hupfield. Past collaborators have included Jenn Berklich, Ernest Concepcion, Ben Knight Emmanuel Migrino, Dormafe Baluyos-Fox, Dorothy Royale, Sarah Kipp, Mona Kamal, and David Gould.
Kelly Monico
Denver, CO
July 5, 2007 - July 24, 2007
website | k monico dot com
blog | harry loves dot vox dot com
Lisa Lipton
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
June 21, 2007 - July 10, 2007
blog | frankly elsewhere elsewhere dot vox dot com
Canadian artist, Lisa Lipton, received her B.F.A. from the NSCAD University in 2003, and M.F.A. from the University of Windsor in April 2006. Her installations combine the mediums of sculpture, video, performance, costumes, music and dance. She has exhibited her work on both a national and international level, most notably within Toronto, Windsor (AGW), New York, Detroit, Texas, North Carolina, Berlin. Currently, Lisa has been working out of her studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia.