The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
20 Jay Street, Suite 720
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Opening Reception: Friday, April 24, 5 – 9 pm
Honoring Barbara T. Hoffman, Esq.
Phong Bui Interview with Alex Katz: Saturday, April 25, 12 – 2 pm
Saturday, April 25, 2 – 6 pm
Sunday, April 26, 2 – 6 pm
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program will present Open Studios 2009 from April 24, 2009 – April 26, 2009. Open Studios 2009 marks the second year of The Space Program in its DUMBO location (Brooklyn). The program, founded in 1991, was housed in Tribeca until 2006 and relocated in 2007 to DUMBO. The Foundation offers rent-free studios to seventeen artists. The artists would like to welcome the press and the public to view their recent work. The artists were selected from a pool of more than 900 applicants by a panel of distinguished artists: Matthew Deleget, Richard Haas, Mary Lucier, Harriet Shorr and Sarah Sze.
The 2008/2009 Space Program participants are:
Kim Beck makes drawings, prints, paintings and installations that survey peripheral and suburban spaces. She has exhibited work at the Walker Art Center, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Printed Matter, and Smack Mellon.
Erik Benson builds urban landscape paintings informed by the Everyday. His work is currently included in the Tenerife Biennial (Canary Islands).
Michael Paul Britto is an art renegade, who was born in Brooklyn and currently lives and works in New York City. Britto’s goal is to use his art to give voice to marginalized communities and foster understanding in mainstream society.
Bibi Calderaro is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is shown internationally. Curious about intersubjectivity and the possibilities of communication, she questions boundaries – of subjects, of disciplines, of knowledge – to create tensions, to problematize, to simplify, to yield new layers of perception and thought. She critically employs a range of media, such as still and moving images, sound, objects, writing, and performative actions.
Michelle Carollo was born in New York and studied at San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, Painting) and Stony Brook University (BA, Studio Art). She plays with the idea of making a painting in space. Her interest is in translating illusionary space, like that found in painting, into physical space, like that found in sculpture.
Rob Carter makes stop-motion animation, time-lapse video and photographic ‘re-constructions’ that spotlight iconic and political structures in our urban environment, especially sports stadia, skyscrapers, churches, and other historical landmarks. In 2008, he became a West Prize finalist, attended the Art Omi residency and opened solo exhibitions in Madrid and Rome.
Cora Cohen is a New York-based abstract painter whose opulent yet gritty paintings draw on contemporary urban and philosophical sources. Their complex visuality invokes aspects of American modernism, and their gnarled materiality recalls European Art informel. She has shown widely in the United States and Europe.
Colette is working on a series of new portraits ,in an installation recalling” home.”. She has just completed a short film on the demolition of her “legendary atelier” and is also creating a series of paintings and photo works related to the street tableaux performed during the demolition. She has recently returned from Berlin where she was featured in “React- feminism “for her ground breaking street-work performances of the 70′s; participated in” Interieur Exterior “at the Wolfsburg museum, and had a video presentation among her works at the “Colette Lounge” in the LowenPalais.
Franklin Evans is an artist whose psychedelic, formal, conceptual, maximalist, literalist painting installations and collaborations explore the boundaries between painting and performance and the static and the dynamic. His work has been exhibited in New York at The Drawing Center and El Museo del Barrio, among other places, and he has had solo exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Milan, and Toronto.
Christopher Gallego was born in New York. As a representational painter drawing inspiration from the familiarity of his studio, he searches for a grace and presence dwelling within “ordinary” things, which he feels transcend the ordinary. He has exhibited at Hirschl and Adler, Seraphin Gallery, The New Britain Museum of American Art and the Arkansas Arts Center.
Ezra Johnson makes videos and paintings. His work is shown by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York.
Kakyoung Lee creates moving images combining drawing, printmaking, and sound, based on her cyclical daily life. She holds MFAs from Hong-Ik University, Seoul and Purchase College, and has been a resident at MacDowell and Yaddo. Her works have been exhibited widely in the USA and Korea including The Drawing Center and MOMA in New York.
Katinka Mann’s work is primarily in relief sculpture and handmade paper. The sculpture’s physical lightness contrasts with the look of weight and solidity. Although the bas reliefs are very thin, they do not interfere with depth perception. Implied movement helps create spatial illusion. Many paradoxes blur the distinction between reality and image.
Kristine Moran’s abstract paintings take their cues from film, literature, mythology and modern and contemporary art. Moran will have her first New York solo exhibition this June at the Nicelle Beauchene Gallery and will be part of the upcoming exhibition Paint at the Saatchi Gallery, London, later next year.
Eric Sall, an artist born and raised in South Dakota, makes abstract paintings that are informed by a wide range of influences including dreamy sunsets, graphic logos, junk piles, symmetrical patterns, and monumental forms. He is the recipient of several awards and residencies from notable foundations including the Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Charlotte Street Foundation, and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program.
Diane Wah is an artist from Queens, NY whose work explores the intersection between traditional photography and popular culture. Making use of various elements including photography, typography and graphic design, Wah explores various notions of gender, racial coding and cultural theory.
Frank Webster – “In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.” —Samuel Beckett
Marie Walsh Sharpe, a Colorado Springs, CO philanthropist, created the Foundation before her death in 1985 to benefit visual artists. The Foundation’s Artists Advisory Committee, comprised of: Cynthia Carlson, Chuck Close (emeritus), Janet Fish, Philip Pearlstein, Irving Sandler, Harriet Shorr, and Robert Storr, initiated and developed The Space Program in 1991 as a service to artists to meet their needs for workspace. In 2006, Phong Bui, Matthew Deleget and Tara Donovan were added to the Artists Advisory Committee.
The Space Program is funded by The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and a Consortium of funders: Basil Alkazzi, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc., The Robert Sterling Clark Visual Arts Space Award, The Richard Florsheim Art Fund Awards for Older Artists, The Robert Gould Foundation, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, The Judith Rothschild Foundation, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
The Space Program is located at 20 Jay Street, Suite 720, 7th Floor and may be reached by subway F to York Street, right on Jay Street, walk downhill 3 blocks, on the corner of Plymouth and Jay; or subway A/C to High Street, cross Cadman Plaza, walk down Cadman Plaza West to Washington Street, right on Front, left on Jay.
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