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.
Chris Berntsen
Chris Berntsen (Brooklyn, NY) is a New Orleans/New York based artist. His photography explores themes related to queerness, intimacy, and time. In addition to exhibition photography he also creates time-based projection works. Chris’ work has been exhibited in MoMA PS1, Aperture Foundation, New York, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. He has been working closely with photo conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas for nearly ten years. Chris received his BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Chris was in residence at Elsewhere from April 6, 2011 - May 3, 2011 and made We’ve Come Too Far To End It Now.
Monica Byrne
April 28, 2011 - May 24, 2011
website | monica byrne dot org
"When I was a student at MIT, I learned the many uses of infinity. As a writer, the concept is my greatest inspiration. There's an infinite number of stories to tell. I intend to tell as many as I can. The universe is big."
- monica byrne
Nik Perez
Minneapolis, MN
March 16, 2011 - April 15, 2011
" I want my writing to create connection. My artistic purpose is the full blown reveal – which, quite honestly, I don’t feel I’ve reached yet. I want my work to inspire people to ask what they would be willing to risk of themselves artistically. I don’t want my art to be a statement, but perhaps a question without the question mark. "
- Nik Perez
Cyrus Smith
August 28 - September 30, 2010
Resident
blog | cyrus smith dot vox dot com
Portland, OR
An artist and producer in numerous collectives and collaborations, Smith was a cofounder of the Pancake Clubhouse Historic Township and Activity Destination for the Living Arts (welcomes you), an alternative arts space in Portland, Oregon where he coordinated an active exhibition schedule and residency program from 2008-2009. Recent independent projects include The Christmas Time Radio Hour, a weekly program on KPSU dedicated to Christmas and Holiday Music, “Art Talk AM on the Radio,” a weekly interview show which focused on local, national and international artists and curators, and Neighborhood Projects Media, which was featured as part of a collaborative project for the 2008 Time Based Arts Festival, sponsored by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. Smith is a recent graduate of Portland State University, where he received an MFA in Art and Social Practice.
2014-2015
Building Curator
Cyrus is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in sculpture, interactive art, radio, publication, and performance. He was part of the first graduating class at Portland State University to receive an MFA with a concentration in “Social Practice,” a form of art that encourages interactivity, communication, and social engagement. Cyrus also worked on the exhibitions team for the Portland Art Museum and Tacoma Art Museum as an exhibit installer and designer. When he is not making art, you may find him playing music, taking the long way home, or sleeping under the stars.
Antonia Wright
Miami, FL
August 5, 2010 - August 24, 2010
Antonia Wright is a Miami-born artist who has lived and traveled all over the world. Her work employs photography, poetry, performance, video art, installation, sculpture, and the interaction between these forms to question the world around her. She received an M.F.A. in poetry from the New School University in New York City and is a graduate of the International Center of Photography’s General Studies Program. She has worked for Clyde Butcher, Patrick Demarchelier among others and she was recently featured in New York Magazine’s article, “The New Talent Show: Pot-Luck Culture”, on upcoming artists. Antonia’s work has been in many exhibitions including the Envoy Gallery in New York City, “Slideluck Potshow” in McCaren Park Pool, The DUMBO Art Center’s “Down Under the Bridge Festival” in Brooklyn, and Amnesty International’s exposé on Cuban-American Artists at A+D Museum in Los Angeles. Wright is currently an artist in residence at the ArtCenter South Florida and the assistant to the curator at The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE. She began her artistic career as a clown at children’s birthday parties.
Hazel Rickard
Eureka, CA
August 19, 2010 - September 25, 2010
Hazel began composing music while living in Antwerp, Belgium in 2005. She returned to the states to collaborate with others and to study anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. In the summer of 2008, she undertook a song-writing and performance project that took her biking across the country to Virginia. Since then she has organized vaudeville performances in Portland, composing music, building sets and puppets, as well as performing in these shows.