Jane Benson

Jane Benson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is about material and identity transformation and the atavistic tension between natural and artificial forms of beauty. Benson appropriates design of culturally significant objects in order to question their original conditions and purpose.

 
 

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Julie Anne Mann

Julie Anne Mann plans to use her time in the residency to complete two large works, Madame and The Lovers, which are to be included in a new series of silver leafed panels based on photographs taken in Washington State. Ms. Mann’s work reflects the dichotomies found in life, hope and despair, life and death or the reality of our precarious ecological relationships.

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Alice O’Malley

Over the past seven years, Alice O’Malley has collaborated with scores of downtown New York artists to create a photographic archive for the turn of the century. The pictures were made with a 4×5 camera, black & white film and natural light. During this studio residency, Ms. O’Malley intends to revision this collection, Rare Orchids, as a digital installation. In addition, she will begin a series of portraits of “handsome women” loosely based on the work of Romaine Brooks.

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Claire Watkins

Claire Watkins is an installation artist whose curiosity of the minutia and delicate actions of everyday life form the foundation from which she creates new work. The digestive system turns food into eyelashes. Neutrons fire in your hand with the memories of your life. Electricity has a visual presence in Ms. Watkin’s work, and the machines that she builds reflect her awe and wonder of the energy around her.

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