Monday, March 4th, 2024
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Grace Roselli (b.1960) is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist whose work visually explores womxn’s narratives, outsider bodies and the cultural constructs surrounding them. Roselli received a BFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design,1982 and was awarded the 1981 RISD scholarship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Roselli’s artwork has been included in a variety of publications and exhibited both nationally and internationally including exhibitions with Anita Friedman Fine Arts Gallery in New York City, Mar Silver Design Lab in Westport, CT and with the Pentimenti gallery in Philadelphia, and the Gemeente Museum, Netherlands. Her artwork and photographs are in private collections in the U.S. and Europe.
Her ongoing photographic portrait series, Pandora’s BoxX Project, has received 2023 grants from New York State Council on the Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Barbara Deming ‘Money for Women’ Memorial Fund and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fiscal Sponsorship. Pandora’s BoxX panel discussions have taken place at the Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn NY; Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA in collaboration with Alma|Lewis, a Pittsburgh, PA gallery and residency space devoted to Black artists; Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY, and online, hosted by ‘Artists Talk On Art’.
Nicole Awai Awai was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2011 and an Art Matters Grant in 2012. Awai was an inaugural awardee of the 2019 BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as PS1 MOMA, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Kemper Museum, Museum of Latin American Art, California African American Museum, The Chinese American Museum LA, the Biennale of Ceramic in Contemporary Art in Italy, and the Busan Biennale in Korea. Recent exhibitions include Citizenship: A Practice of Society, MCA Denver, Mas Alla, El Mar Canta (Beyond, the Sea Sings), Times Art Center Berlin and Combinations, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, NY. Awai was the spring 2022 artist in residence at Materials for the Arts, A division of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Awai was a Critic at the Yale School of Art in the Department of Painting and Printmaking from 2008-2015 and is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Music at John Jay College, The City University of New York.
Cheryl Donegan received her B.F.A. in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1984 and an M.F.A. at Hunter College in New York in 1989. Donegan emerged in the 90’s with video works that were direct, irreverent performances, infused with an ironic eroticism. Her performative actions before the camera often evoked the process and condition of painting from competing points of view: maker, subject, viewer, lover. hater. Donegan’s explorations of process through electronic media has led her to deploy a unique set of modalities, combining digital printing, hand dyeing, upcycling, installation and painting. Her work has appeared in a mid-career survey, GRLZ and VEILS at the Houston Contemporary Art Museum and Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, in 2018-19, at Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland, in 2017 and at the New Museum, New York, in 2016 in a solo exhibition, SCENES + COMMERCIALS. Donegan has presented videos on the High Line, New York, and participated in solo and group exhibitions at Skaftfell Center for Visual Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland (2019), White Flag Projects, St. Louis, and DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Massachusetts (all 2013) The Tang Museum of Art at Skidmore College (2011), the Whitney Biennial (1995), The Museum of Modern Art (1993), the Venice Biennale (1993). She lives and works in New York with her family.
Carla Gannis is a New York based artist known for her pioneering work that fuses technology and traditional media, producing multilayered narratives that challenge aesthetic and societal norms. Her art is characterized by a commitment to experimentation. Throughout her career, she has worked with an array of mediums and tools, including drawing, painting, video, extended reality, and machine learning models. Her multilayered narratives engage with the loci of identity within the context of hyperreal 21th century conditions.
Gannis holds an MFA in painting from Boston University. Today is an Industry Professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society. Her most recent projects include wwwunderkammer at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC; Virtues and Vices at Telematic Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Welcome to the wwwunderkammer at the Pérez Art Museum Miami; and The Elevated Line at Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY. Publications that have featured Gannis’s work include Art in America, Wired, FastCo, Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, El PaÍs and The LA Times, among others.
Cuban-born artist María Elena González (b.1957) is an internationally recognized sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY, and the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. González interweaves the conceptual with a strong dedication to craft in her complex installations and poetic arrangements, exploring themes like identity, memory, and dislocation. Over a career spanning thirty years she has won the Prix de Rome (2003), and more recently, Grand Prize at the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts at Ljubljana, Slovenia (2013). She was a Guggenheim Fellow (2006) and has been awarded grants from numerous foundations including Anonymous Was a Woman, Creative Capital, Pollock-Krasner (4 time recipient), Joan Mitchell, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Penny McCall, among others. Additionally, she has served as the Sculpture Commissioner for the Design Commission of the City of New York. González has taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, among others, and served, until its closing, as a tenured Associate Professor and Chair of the Sculpture Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. González’s work can be found in numerous public collections including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum voor Modern Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands; Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Claudia Hart emerged as part of a generation of 90s intermedia artists examining issues of identity and representation. Since the late 90s when she began working with 3D animation, Hart embraced these same concepts, but now focusing on the impact of computing and simulation technologies. Hart was an early adopter of virtual imaging, using 3D animation to make media installations and projections, and later as they were invented, other forms of VR, AR and also creating objects produced by computer-driven production machines. At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is Professor Emeritus, she developed a pedagogic program based on her practice - Experimental 3D - the first dedicated solely to teaching simulations technologies in an art-school context.
Hart’s works are widely exhibited and collected by galleries and museums including the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and the Albertina Museum, Vienna, The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Vera List Center Collection,The Borusan Contemporary Collection, The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation Collection, the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection, The Goetz Collection,The New York Public Library, the Addison Gallery of American Arts, Andover, MA, Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection, and many other private collections . Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum, produced at the Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology, where she was an honorary fellow in 2013-14, and at the Center for New Music and Audio Technology, UC California, Berkeley where she is currently a fellow. She lives in NY, works with bitforms gallery, NY, and Expanded.art, Berlin and is married to the Austrian media artist Kurt Hentschlager.