Meet this month’s artists-in-residence!
Residency session: January 3rd - January 29th, 2024
AND MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THe First OPEN STUDIO of 2024:
THURSDAY, January 25th FROM 5-7PM
Stephen Proski
brighton, massachusetts
My name is Stephen Proski. I’m interested in communicating an awareness of something that happens in the world that affects all of us and that no one is separate from: the prioritizing of vision has made us blind to our surroundings. The ideology of ableism, specifically what is commonly considered normal or not normal, keeps us from creating meaningful changes that would be necessary for all of us to thrive as a society. I want to make art that addresses my own personal experience of blindness, while questioning and interrogating the imposing hierarchical structures that continue to shape, oppress, and favor the ocularcentric.
My work is physical to make and although visually seductive, tactility ultimately prevails. I use blindness as a cipher to articulate my own predisposition to the world. The constant misuse of materials and processes aggressively seep, soak, and spill into one another – resin, concrete, ceramics, acrylic, and text, complicating the distinction between image and language. As an artist, I am guided by the metamorphoses that take place through translation – language to shape, shape to form, form to language, and so on – to offer the experience of sensation without distinction, pleasurable surfaces coercively molded for the touch of the eye in collaboration with the other senses.
Corinne Yonce
Winooski, vermont
Corrine Yonce is an artist, fair & affordable housing advocate, and documentarian. Yonce often combines visual art with ethnographic media, including audio interviews, household objects, and photographs. Her story-centered figurative paintings and installations dig into the concepts of home and housing from a community and personal perspective. She is the founder of the Voices of Home project, a seven year partnership with the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition and housing providers across the state where she interviewed residents about “home” and co-created art installations and portraits. Corrine Yonce is currently completing her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Arts as a Leslie King Hammond fellow and Alfred T Granger scholar. Yonce is currently a Generator Makerspace resident to produce works for the public art series, “Longing is Just Our Word for Knowing.” She lives and works in Winooski, Vermont and teaches tenant skills and Fair Housing workshops with the Fair Housing Project of CVOEO.
“I combine visual art with ethnographic media, including audio interviews, physical household objects, and digitally printed photographs. My paintings depict my recollections of the leaking container of home. I am interested in the signifiers of home as they relate to the body, comfort, touch, play and movement. The works are de and reconstructed, recalibrated, conjoined, and installed in ways that are incongruous. The paintings upend themselves.”
Natalia Mejía Murillo
richmond, virginia
Natalia Mejía is a Colombian artist who explores notions of territory, repetition, trace, and time through correspondences between astronomy, cartography, and archaeology. She holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, MA in Art History and Theory, and BFA from National University of Colombia.
She has been the recipient of awards and residencies, including MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023), Curatorial Program for Research (New York, 2023), Tajo Taller and Saenger Galería, Mexico City (2023), Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. ME (2022), Fundació Miró Mallorca and Casa de Velázquez, Spain (2021), Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Germany (2020), Ministry of Culture of Colombia - Mexico (FONCA) (2017), Fundación CIEC - Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea (Betanzos, Spain, 2014), The Strzemioski Academy of Fine Arts and Design (Łódz, Poland, 2014) among others.
She has taught at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota. She is currently Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar.
Headshot by Dana Clark.
Madison Donnelly
new haven, connecticut
Madison Donnelly (b. 1992) is a sculpture and installation artist. Her practice examines the psychological impact of neglect under Late Capitalism- ranging from the unkempt body and rented apartments to animal and planetary neglect.
She holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale ’23 where she received the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, and was awarded a Design Fellowship at the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design. She holds a BFA from the University of Utah ’18 and has participated in residencies at SOMA in Tlaxcala, Mexico, UMOCA in Salt Lake City, and Mass MOCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Hans Kuzmich
Santa cruz, california
Hans Kuzmich is an interdisciplinary artist and Ph.D. candidate in the Film and Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His work is concerned with developing abolitionist representational strategies that address gender normativity as a product and producer of the prison industrial complex, and racialized anti-trans/queer violence as its expression. Kuzmich received a BFA in Art from the Cooper Union in 2005 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study program in 2009–10. Since completing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2013, Kuzmich has lectured at the California Institute of the Arts and worked in the film industry as a member of the International Cinematographers Guild. His work has been exhibited in art spaces, film festivals, and community centers internationally, and his writing has been published in: Art Journal; Theory, Culture & Society; the Abolitionist; and Native Strategies.
“My practice investigates gender as an interface between subjects and the state—a focus informed by my position as a trans person and Russian immigrant. Using photography, film, video, and sound—including nontraditional recording techniques, such as infrared photography and electromagnetic field recording—I consider how audiovisual technologies inflect questions of gender and state violence.”
T.J. Dedeaux-Norris
Iowa city, iowa
T.J. Dedeaux-Norris is a mixed-media artist who employs painting, fiber, performance, video, and music to explore the somatic impacts of racial, gender, and class socialization. In form and content, their work poses a philosophical inquiry into the distinction between Self and Other, with the body as a social microcosm of distinct yet discursive dynamics to observe and question. Everything is both permeable and fractile.
Dedeaux-Norris completed their BA at University of California at Los Angeles and their MFA at Yale University. Their work has been presented internationally at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Mission Creek Festival, Nasher Museum of Art, Performa, Prospect New Orleans, Rotterdam Film Festival, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Sundance Film Festival, and The Walker Art Center - among other institutions. Dedeaux-Norris has participated in residencies at Grant Wood Colony, MacDowell, Skowhegan, and Yaddo. They are a 2019-2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee, a 2022 Iowa Artist Fellow, and a tenured Associate Professor at University of Iowa.
Alexander Davis
boston, massachusetts
Alexander Davis is a Boston based performer, choreographer, fiber artist, and homosexual. Alex believes that movement, comedy, and fibers are connected through their unifying power to create empathetic and dramatic responses from diverse audiences. Drawing from pop culture and the pedestrian he facilitates experiences that display the innate theatricality (and absurdity) of everyday life.
Kelley-Ann Lindo
providence, rhode island
Kelley-Ann Lindo (Jamaica,1991) holds a BFA in Painting from The Edna College of the Visual and Performing Arts and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has exhibited at Wassaic Projects, Wassaic, NY, The Trout Museum of Art in Wisconsin, The Anderson Gallery in Richmond, VA, and The National Gallery of Jamaica. Lindo was a recipient of the 2021 Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting & Sculpture. She was also a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 2019. She has been artist-in-residence at Grand Central Art Centre, California, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad, and New Local Space (NLS), Kingston, Jamaica. Lindo is currently an artist in residence at California State University, Fullerton Grand Central Art Centre, California, and an Assistant Professor in Residence at Rhode Island School of Design.
Victor MARKA27 Quinonez
brooklyn, new york
My name is Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez and I am an artist with a rich history in graffiti, street culture, design, and activism through art. I firmly believe that design is a creative expression that is powerful, impactful, and progressive if guided by genuine purpose. For me, the "purpose" is what's most important, which is to engage with an audience in order to achieve a dialogue.
In today's climate, it is crucial to control our narratives as BIPOC by empowering each other through our respective creative process. My approach to design, whether product or graphic-driven, is similar to my process for creating art. Both start with passion, discovery, and building a narrative. My passion comes from the streets, not merely studying it but living it as well. It's a way of life.
Creating street murals, paintings, and products reflects my purpose for engaging an audience in a dialogue on cultural authenticity and awareness driven by self-expression. Through my art, I strive to bring attention to the importance of cultural identity and to promote positive societal change.
Alida Rodrigues
london, united kingdom
Alida Rodrigues (b.1983) is a visual artist from Angola currently based in London(UK). Rodrigues studied at The Slade School of Fine Art where she received a BA in Fine Art. Since her first solo exhibition in 2014 at Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Norway, she has exhibited widely within the UK, Europe and Africa and participated in artists residencies in the UK, Mexico and will be undertaking a residency at the Studios at MASS MoCA(USA) in 2024.
Rodrigues, stared in the film Relic 3 in (2019) forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project produced by the British-Ghanian artist Larry Achiampong. The fashion label Winnie New York who was the recipient of the Karl Lagerfeld Prize 2022, was inspired by her work to make a collection for his Men’s Spring/Summer 2023 collection which was shown during Paris fashion week 2022.
”My artistic practise is a rich tapestry of collage, textile and installation woven together by using 19th century black and white portrait photographs and botanical illustrations from the same period. At the heart of my work lies the intricate exploration of the multifaceted concept of identity, entailing a profound investigation into notions of belonging and un-belonging. I am deeply committed to unravelling the historical threads of colonialism and the enduring echoes of this complex and problematic past which still influences our way of life affecting various aspects of race, culture, politics, economics, and society across the globe.”