Erika Villarreal
Lafayette, Indiana
May 28, 2009 - June 16, 2009
Erika works across media, including: sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, and installation. She's currently working on her MFA at Purdue in Lafayette, Indiana.
Valerie Powell
May 15, 2009 - June 16, 2009
website | valerie powell dot com
Valerie makes installations with shrinky-dinks, as well as paintings, crafts, and multiples.
Jeanne Stern
Austin, Texas
May 14, 2009 - June 16, 2009
website | jeanne stern dot com
Jeanne Stern creates surreal microcosms using animation, clockwork, puppet films and dioramas. Her work has shown at festivals, television, and galleries including the Smithsonian, PBS, SXSW, the Orlando Museum of Art, Texas State Art Gallery, Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams, and the San Diego Women's Film Festival. She received her MFA in film from the University of Texas, and her BA in Studio Art & Computer Science from Connecticut College. In 2007 she received a commission from the Connecticut College Arts & Technology Symposium for which she produced a short stereoscopic film. She continued her exploration of stereoscopy during her residency at Elsewhere where she made a series of stereoscopic works. Her stereoscopic works were shown at her solo show "Shadow Tiger," at Texas State University in 2009. Jeanne lives in Austin TX where she works as a freelance animator.
Adam Brody
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 2, 2009 - May 5, 2009
myspace | the great swamp
Adam Chad Brody is a music & performance maker. He is the band leader of The Great Swamp, a theatrical rock group based in Philadelphia, PA. He is also a member Cha-cha'razzi, a South Philly art/studio space that hosts events and such. He received an Edward Albee Fellowship for Writing in 2008 and has written & produced two plays for the Philly Fringe Festival.
Steve Beatty
Portland, Oregon
April 2, 2009 - April 28, 2009
Steven Beatty was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1966. He is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher living and working in Portland, Oregon. His work addresses environmental and social issues, and includes mixed media, sculpture, installation, public intervention, painting, digital photography, material exploration lectures and collaborations with Portland-based artist, Laurel Kurtz. He received his BA from Humboldt State University, 2002 and his MFA from Portland State University, 2006. He has shown work internationally in Liverpool UK, Ulsan Korea, and Stuttgart Germany and the west and east coasts of the United States. Beatty won the 2006 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in Hamilton, NJ and his work was shown in Sculpture Magazine.
Laurel Kurtz
Portland, Oregon
April 2, 2009 - April 28, 2009
Laurel Kurtz is in her second year at Portland State University’s (PSU) Art and Social Practice program. Kurtz earned a BA from PSU in Fine Art/Sculpture. Kurtz often works collaboratively and some of her past works include working with Avalon Kalin and the local NW Dowser, Mike Doney; Sandy Sampson and Kurtz created a public speaking platform that was influenced by their involvement in Toastmasters; Kurtz and Steven Beatty have an on-going collaborative practice involving plastic bottle caps collected from the community. They have traveled to the East coast and overseas to the UK with their bottle caps. Most recently, Kurtz is working with Bill Harrelson, a neighbor, to create a back scratcher museum. Kurtz’s work focuses on the social as a vehicle to highlight people and issues of interest and relevance in a community.
Marc Israel
Northampton, Maine
April 2, 2009 - April 8, 2009
video | vimeo dot com slash marc israel
Filmmaker Marc Israel from Northampton, Massachusetts writes- “ a brief statement regarding myself: Somewhere along the line somebody took off my head and stuck it on a ballerina. I feel incredibly disproportional as a result, and make films to balance out the difference. Most of the time I feel like screaming, 1/3 of the rest of the time like crying, and the remaining time allotment is spent holding up daisies in solidarity with some crazy woman or singer that maketh the heart tremble and pound. I laugh over spilled milk, if it's done right. Timing is everything. I value friends and inherently have a distrust of heads of state. I come from sour beginnings but toil daily to be ready and glad for the sweetened earth.”
Alex Wolkowitcz
Liverpool, England
August 7, 2008 - September 16, 2008
website | studio wolcowicz dot com
Alexandra Wolkowicz is a Polish/German photography and artist currently doing a residency in Liverpool. Her work explores themes about our relationship with the world and how we share it with each other and living things. Essentially tactile and documentary, her work springs from her experience with photography, performance, theatre and the creation of unique representations of places, things and histories which move her. She works with still and moving imagery, often with the addition of sound. Her intervention with things and situations found is to alter, adjust, and reconstruct the familiar in order to create moving, thought-provoking and poetic representations. Her working practice is often collaborative and multidisciplinary, choosing to select media appropriate to the aesthetics and content of a particular piece. She has traveled widely and has worked with artists and in residencies in Europe, North America and Asia.
Molly Goldberg
San Francisco, CA
July 24, 2008 - August 19, 2008
Molly Goldberg and collaborator Mary Rothlisberger met elsewhere. Somewhere between the this and the that, the here and the there, the dear and the from, they built a landscape of friendship– a series of sites for shared belonging. Through the construction of temporary, moveable dwellings and gathering spaces, through storytelling amd music making, they explore questions of community, interdependence, migration, home and inbetweenness. Their collaborations merge in the passions of a dedicated community organizer and an inspiring teacher and friend-maker: making homes and crossing lines, dotting eyes, singing for supper, and setting a place at the table for every good idea. Together they made a project called Elsewhere Book Project, which is undocumented.
Laurencio Carlos Ruiz
State College, PA
July 10, 2008 – August 12, 2008
June 14, 2011 - July 3, 2011
The fifth of six children, he grew up in a traditional working-class Catholic family, and his education was in public schools. As a visual and performance artist, as a puppeteer, designer, and photographer, he is coming back into the international eye with his new Action Figure Drama.Ruiz received his B.A. in Graphic Design from the Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico City, 1992) and a M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Penn State University (2001). A free-lance artists and designer, and professor of Theatre and Integrative Arts at Penn State University Altoona, he resides with the love of his life Roselyn in State College PA, since 1996.
