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The 2011 Artists-in-Residence include: Michael Tummings, Sherry Millner, Jen Davis, Cui Fei, Calla Thompson, Amy Elkins, Andrew Miksys, Ohm Phanphiroj, Shane Lavalette, Dana Popa, and Shimon Attie. The work by artists who participated in the 2010 Artist-in-Residence Program are showcased in the Light Work Annual (CS162). Artists in the 2011 AIR Program will be featured in the Light Work Annual (CS167), which will be printed in the summer. See the Light Work online store for past issues of the Annual or Contact Sheet.
Michael Tummings photographs hunters in nature in the classic European tradition of painting. His series Hidden examines the ritualized killing of animals within a romanticized setting of open landscapes. This project has taken Tummings to countries such as Germany, England, Norway, Romania, and Turkey. He will complete his residency in March 2011.
Sherry Millner creates collages from an archive of images and snapshots collected over the last twenty-five years. Her art exists in the presence and absence of content in the final collages or what she calls "the strange strength of the remnant: its avowal of the impossibility of the totality, of the fragmentation of memory and time, of the common struggle against oblivion." Millner works with film, photomontage, installation, and digital photography. Her work has been shown internationally, including countries such as Germany, Bulgaria, Greece, Vietnam, Portugal, and more.
Jen Davis is a Brooklyn-based photographer. For the past 9 years she has been working on her series Self-Portraits, dealing with issues regarding beauty, identity, and body image. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2008, and her BA from Columbia College Chicago in 2002. Davis’ work is included in “reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today”, which opened at Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland in June 2010 and continues to travel globally. Davis’ work is included in the inaugural exhibition at Joy Wei gallery in New York City titled “Whose Self-Portrait? The Subject Behind the Camera.” Davis has exhibited widely included group exhibitions at SI FEST: Savignano Immagini Festival in Italy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Stephen Daiter Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Galerie Priska Pasquer in Cologne, Germany. Her photographs are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Sir Elton John Photography Collection, and The Library of Congress. Her work has been featured in publications including Camera Austria, Aperture, Photography Quarterly, and PDN. Davis is represented by Lee Marks Fine Art. Her work was featured on the website Women in Photography NYC. More images can be viewed on her website at www.jendavisphoto.com.
Cui Fei
detail from the installationTracing the Remains VIII, 2010
at the Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, NY
Cui Fei has developed a solid foundation in a wide variety of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture and calligraphy. She has headlined three solo shows, and has participated in over fifty gallery and museum exhibitions worldwide. She has been cited in various publications, including Art in America, The New York Times, and The New Yorker Magazine. She has received grants and awards, including The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the NYFA Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts, the BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts and was selected into the Artists-in-the-Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Cui was born in Jinan, China. She received a BFA degree in painting from the Affiliate High School of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts), and moved to the United States in 1996 to pursue higher educatio. She earned an MFA degree in painting at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001. For more information, please visit www.cuifei.net.
Calla Thompson spent her residency creating a brand new series of digitally collaged work, using images appropriated from the internet. She describes her artwork as a critical visual examination of contemporary culture. "It is how I investigate material greed and consumption, as well as the ways in which power is exchanged between individuals in society. In my work, I explore good and evil, examining moments and situations in which that dichotomy collapses. I map a place where characters have the potential to be both the ‘goodie’ and the ‘baddie’, at times simultaneously. These concerns, along with a spare aesthetic, and select iconography, have been present from my earliest through my most current artworks."
Thompson's long exhibition list includes solo exhibitions at Texas Woman's University in Denton, TX; Project 4 Gallery in Washington, DC; the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, and more. She received the Maryland State Arts Council Award and the Canada Council for the Arts multiple times. In addition to her residency at Light Work, she has participated in residency programs at Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ; Cooper Union in New York, NY; the Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest, Hungary; Yaddo Arts Colony in Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Constance Saltonstall Arts Colony in Ithaca, NY. Originally from Canada, she earned a BFA from the University of Ottawa in Canada and an MFA from Syracuse University. She currently lives in Baltimore, MD. For more information, please visit www.thompsoncalla.com.
Amy Elkins came to Light Work to edit work for her ongoing series Black is the Day, Black is the Night. This series was started as she was searching for a possibly incarcerated family member. She became aware of pen pal websites for people serving life and deathrow sentences in the US. After corresponding with a number of them, she created a project that she describes as exploring "identity using concepts of time, accumulation, memory and distance." She is currently working on a book layout of her layered stories that blend the fictional with reality.During her time at Light Work she also edited and printed work from her series Elegant Violence, portraying rugby players, masculine identity, and athleticism.
Elkins has been featured in solo exhibitions at Yancey Richardson Gallery Project Space in New York, NY, and the Pingvao International Photo Festival in China. Her many group exhibitions include shows in the USA, Canada, China, Korea, Austria, and more. Elkins recently moved to Portland, OR. For more information, please visit www.amyelkins.com.
During his residency Ohm Phanphiroj photographed for two new series and worked on his series Underage. The latter is a photo project on young male prostitutes in Thailand. Phanphiroj juxtaposes his street light lit portraits of the boys with biographical facts such as their age, reason for working the streets, number of customers, and aspirations.
Phanphiroj holds an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology, an MA from Georgia State University, an MA from the University of Northern Iowa, a diploma from Memphis State University, and a Bachelor of La from Thammasat University in Bangkok. He has received numerous awards for his photographs, including Foto Visura, ArtTake Miami, Air Asia Film and Animation Award, Sony World Photography Award, Pilsner Urquell International Photography Award, PDN, and more. He currently teaches at the Bangkok University International in Thailand. For more information, please visit www.ohmphotography.com.
Andrew Miksys has come to Light Work to work on his newest series Tulips.Miksys has an international exhibition record, including solo exhibitions at the Kominek Gallery in Berlin, Germany, and at the Nelson Hancock Gallery in New York. He recently participated in an exhibition at the Fotohof in Salzburg, Austria, and the Vilnius Contemporary Arts Centre in Lithuania. Awards have included the Aaron Siskind Foundation Grant, the Slate Magazine Artist of the Month Award, two Fulbright Fellowships, PDN 30, and more. Miksys divides his time between Seattle, WA and Vilnius, Lithuania. For more information, please visit www.andrewmiksys.com.
Shane Lavalette's recent projects address the history and cultural landscapes of various places, including the New England area, the Burren landscape in Western Ireland, Krishna devotees in the Indian village of Vrindavan, and most recently various parts of the South.
Lavalette currently lives and works in Somerville, MA. He received his BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette's photographs have been shown widely, including national and international exhibitions at Aperture Gallery, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Chelsea Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Musée de l’Elysée, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Caochangdi PhotoSpring Festival and The Photographers’ Gallery, London. Lavalette was commissioned by the High Museum of Art to create a new body of work as part of the Picturing the South series, from which a selection of photographs will be exhibited in 2012. His editorial work has been published in various magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Vice Magazine, Pig Magazine and SLASH. Lavalette is the founding publisher and editor of Lay Flat. For more information, please visit www.shanelavalette.com.
Untitled, from the series Not Natasha
Dana Popa's series Not Natasha has been exhibited in multiple solo exhibitions in the UK. It is currently on view at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR. Popa's work has been published in muliple art journals, including Home, Elephant and Castle, Foam International Photography Magazine, Next Level Magazine, Foto8, British Journal of Photography, Vrij Nederland, KK Magazine, Days Japan, and Amnesty International USA. Popa was born in Romania and currently lives in the UK. She completed an MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at London Collee of Communication. Her work can be found at www.danapopa.com
This residency was co-sponsored by Autograph in London, England. Light Work has been collaborating with Autograph since 1996. See history.
On Via della Tribuna di Campitell
installation with slide projection in Rome, Italy, 2002
Shimon Attie is known for installations that raise questions about memory, place, and identity. He brings public places to life, whether he remembers Jewish inhabitants in Berlin by projecting images of a former Jewish neighborhood onto contemporary buildings, as in The Writing on the Wall project, or asks immigrants to respond to questions about home in New York's Lower East Side as in Between Dreams and History.During his two-part residency, which will be completed in March, Shimon will prepare an installation through the Urban Video Project.
Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie lived in Europe for seven years before moving to New York in the fall of 1997. He has exhibited widely in both the United States and Europe, including shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; and the Jewish Museum, New York.
Since 1976 over 300 artists have participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program. Each year Light Work invites 12-15 artists to participate in this program. During their month-long residencies each artist is given the opportunity to create new work at our studio facility in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center at Syracuse University. Each Artist-in-Residence donates a few examples of their work to Light Work's permanent collection. The Light Work collection currently includes over 3,000 images.
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