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Ta-Wei Huang

Ta-Wei Huang (b. 1988) does not have an academic background in art. As a child he drew compulsively but discovered he wanted to become an artist when he studied marketing in college. As an artist, Huang understands creativity as a moving and fluid process. Whereas he considers that future and past belong to the realm of …

Really Large Numbers

Really Large Numbers (RLN) is a laboratory that encompasses the individual and collaborative experiments/expeditions of Chad Stayrook and Julia Oldham. Early in 2011, the two artists spontaneously began to dream about each other as characters in mythical dream adventures. Soon after the development of their Dream Thread, they had a series of discussions that led …

Rebecca Howard

Rebecca Howard is an artist and producer from the U.K; her practice seeks to explore notions of dialogue and interaction, as well as the efficacy of forms such as sound, printed text and symposiums in establishing a new mode of exchange. In the Autumn of 2013, Rebecca was a Resident Curator at Node Centre for …

Enrique Figueredo

2014 Residency: May through June Enrique Figueredo (b. 1980 in Caracas, Venezuela) is moved by extremes: communism, capitalism, poverty, wealth, justice, injustice, guerillas, politicians, peasants and monarchs. He is most inspired by the actions a person or a nation can take, past or present, that shape our world and consciousness. Whether it’s positive or negative, a musician or …

Beatrice Scaccia

Beatrice Scaccia works on duration, that is that dilatation of time composed of rhythmic scansions, waits and restarts. Her narrative urge and her need to express herself with figurative painting both originate from a strong communicative instinct that translates into drawings and animation, reminiscent of a certain Renaissance tradition that focuses its artistic study on …

LES Studio Program Artists – Fall 05

Chitra Ganesh Through the use of drawing, sculpture, installation, and mixed media, Chitra Ganesh draws from a broad range of images, including Greek and Hindu mythology, 19th century portraiture and Bollywood and zine culture, to explore how memories and their repression shape moments of both personal and social crisis. During the residency, Ganesh continued work …

LES Studio Program Artists – Spring 2012

Liene Bosquê Liene Bosquê received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Liene was born in Brazil, where she completed her BFA at São Paulo Estate University in 2004 and a baccalaureate in Architecture from Mackenzie University in 2005. While living in Lisbon, Portugal, she received in 2007 the …

LES Studio Program Artists – Fall 2011

Jan Baracz Born in Poland, Jan Baracz lives and works in New York. He is a graduate of NYU, Bard College and the Whitney Independent Study program and has been the recipient of awards from the Asian Cultural Council, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Artists Space and the Kosciusko Foundation, among others. …

LES Studio Program Artists – Spring 2011

Louise Barry Louise Barry works in drawing, collage, and sculpture, and is interested in the way concepts and images translate between media. She borrows images and text from sources including online stock photography sites, magazines found in thrift stores, and elements of her own life. Much of her work concerns the relationship between images and …

LES Studio Program Artists – Fall 2010

Gail Biederman Through mapping, I examine the connections between body, identity, and place. Maps helps me realize where I am not only physically, but temporally and emotionally. Creating mood as much as meaning, my maps reconstruct places and events and restore them as new experiences. I often begin with ordinary street maps of the places …