RESIDENCY

 

2010 Art & Law Residents

Artists

Eric Doeringer received a BA in Visual Art from Brown University, an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Much of his work deals with the relationship between the original and the copy. He has sold "Bootleg" copies of contemporary art on the streets of Chelsea, printed fake Art Basel VIP cards, created a tongue-in-cheek "fan site" dedicated to Matthew Barney, and embroidered the "Polo" logo by hand onto generic shirts. Recently, Doeringer has recreated several books by Ed Ruscha and works by Conceptual artists such as Sol LeWitt, On Kawara, and Lawrence Weiner. Doeringer has had solo exhibitions at {CTS} Creative Thriftshop (NY), Apex Art (NY), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (Toronto, Canada), and Another Year In LA (CA) and has exhibited in group shows at venues including MUSAC (Spain), The Currier Musuem (NH), The Bruce Museum (CT), Albright College (PA), and Muhlenberg College (PA). Doeringer also curated "The Matthew Barney Show" - an exhibition of Matthew Barney fan art and ephemera - at Jack the Pelican (NY) and boca (San Francisco). In 2007, Doeringer received a production grant from the Whitney Museum's IPO program.

Alicia Grullón is interested in the affect place has on identity, the politics of living and the body as word. Her projects consist of performances and photography in public spaces where everything accidental and local become setting and character. Alicia has exhibited at Mount Holyoke College's Five College Women's Studies Research Center, Raritan Community College, Masur Museum of Art, the Peekskill Arts Festival, Samuel Dorsky Museum at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Hunter College Gallery, The Point Community Center, and The University of Rhode Island. Awards include: Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 2007-08, Chashama visual arts awards, and Arts Council Korea international artist residency at Stone and Water Gallery in Anyang, South Korea. She participated in 2008's Art in Odd Places Pedestrian and Jamaica Flux 2010 at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Alicia's work has appeared in The World Journal of Post-Factory Photography, Dirty Pop Magazine, and ICP at the Point. Alicia has a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Born in New York City, Alicia has lived in the Netherlands, England, and Korea. She now lives and works in the Bronx.

Charles Gute is a Brooklyn-based artist and editor. He has been awarded artist fellowships from the San Francisco Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and has twice been a MacDowell Colony Visual Arts Fellow. His work has been in group exhibitions at venues including the Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), the UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Galerie Feinkost (Berlin), Ronald Feldman Gallery (Chicago), and Brown Gallery (London). Solo exhibitions include "The Art Tax Act," Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, 2000; "Revisions and Queries," Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, 2006; and "Find-A-Text," Jason Rulnick, Inc., New York, 2008. A hardcover monograph on Gute's work, Revisions and Queries, was published by The Ice Plant, Los Angeles, in 2008. In the summer of 2009 he presented a commissioned large-scale outdoor work at Socrates Sculpture Park in New York. His work will be included in "We Between the Lines" at Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, opening March 25; and will be the subject of a solo show, "The Corrections," opening at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, on April 10, 2010. Specially created artist's projects will be featured in the March/April 2010 issues of Frieze and Flash Art.
 
Bettina Johae is an artist with an architectural background whose work engages with the changes and perceptions of the city. She is the recipient of several grants and awards, including residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Bronx Museum of the Arts (AIM Program), the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art (EMERGE Program), the NUS Center for the Arts in Singapore, the Pilotprojekt Gropiusstadt in Berlin and the Association of Icelandic Artists in Reykjavik, and a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the New York Public Library, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Goethe Institute, the International Center of Photography, Smack Mellon, the Kentler Drawing Space, the Conflux Festival for Contemporary Psychogeography and the AiOP festival, all in New York City, as well as the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Seoul International Media Art Biennale, the Galerie am Arkonaplatz and the AIV, both in Berlin and the NUS Museum in Singapore. Reviews and articles on her work appeared in The New York Times, New York Arts Magazine, The Village Voice. New York Press, Metro magazine, the DAAD journal "letter" and in 306090, an architectural magazine distributed by Princeton Architectural Press. Bettina Johae was born and brought up in Berlin, Germany. She graduated with a MA in Architecture from the Technical University Berlin in 1998 and received her MA in Studio Art from New York University / International Center of Photography in 2003. She lives and works in Brooklyn. 

Miguel Luciano received his MFA from the University of Florida. His work has been exhibited internationally at La Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris; The Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia; The San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico; Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, and nationally at The Smithsonian Institution, DC; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; El Museo del Barrio, NY; Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Exit Art, NY; The Newark Museum, NJ; and the Jersey City Museum, NJ. Luciano has participated in the LMCC/Workspace 120 Broadway Artist Residency, the Bronx Museum of Art Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program, and the Kitchen's Music Image Sound Text in Community (MISTIC) Residency. He is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award Grant, NYFA award for painting and two Artists and Communities Grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. His work is featured in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum, NY; El Museo del Barrio, NY; and the Newark Museum, NJ. Luciano's work will be featured in the upcoming PBS/THIRTEEN Annenberg documentary series entitled Art Through Time: A Global View. He is featured with artists Takashi Murakami and Guillermo Gómez-Peña in a program entitled Converging Cultures (airs Spring 2010).

Mark Lawrence Stafford was born in Anchorage, Alaska in 1978. He received a BFA from the University of Arizona in 2002; an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2005, and became a fellow of the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2008.  His work has been exhibited at venues such as Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China; VIVID, Birmingham, UK; the 7th Verkliets Biennal in Germany; Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich, Switzerland; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; 10th OPENART International Performance Art Festival,Beijing, China; The Maximum Perception Performance Festival,Brooklyn, NY; Black and White Gallery, NY, NY; and Exit Art, NY, NY. Stafford currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, where he is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute. His multi-disciplinary art practice explores work ethics, civic oppression, productivity and commercialization with a focus on the underlying model of role-assignment and stratification dominating in our society. It questions the behaviors our culture is assimilating, as our country's power structure is swinging from a capitalist government to a privatized commercialist society.Upcoming exhibitions include: Spring 2010 Exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY opening May 2, 2010 and Demolishing an Icon, a solo show at Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY opening September 2010.

Benjamin Tiven is an artist and writer living in New York. He completed an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2007, and a BA from Swarthmore College in 2001. As an essayist and critic, he has written for Bidoun, The Nation, The Abu Dhabi National, and The Philadelphia Independent. He has also exhibited internationally, including at galleries in New York, Dublin, Toronto, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. He is visiting faculty in video production at the School of the International Center of Photography in New York, and has been invited to participate in a forthcoming symposium at Ludwig-Maximilians University, in Munich. He is currently a participant in the AIM program at the Bronx Museum, is a recipient of two Montague international travel fellowships, and of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography (2006).

Angie Waller is a New York based artist working in video, books, web-based applications and installation. Her projects use data mining techniques to establish patterns that critique situations of political and aesthetic identity in the everyday. Recent projects include: The Home of Tycoons (2008), a book documenting Chinese real estate developer's bootlegging of American neighborhoods; The Most Boring Places in the World (2009), a Google Earth tour resulting from aggregating and mapping the locations of bloggers who claim to live in "the most boring place in the world"; and Phrenology of Cable News (2009), an information graphic that displays a Belgian phrenologist's analysis of cable news pundits' heads in an attempt to gauge their expertise. Her work has been shown at The New Museum, Sundance Film Festival, The Bronx Museum, and galleries and festivals in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montréal, Milan, Kiev, Shanghai and Beijing.  She has contributed to publications including The Believer, The Baffler and Triple Canopy. Waller received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her MFA from The University of California Los Angeles. More information can be found at her website, www.angiewaller.com. 

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Writers

Colby Chamberlain is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the art history department at Columbia University. He is a senior editor for the online magazine Triple Canopy (canopycanopycanopy.com), and a regular contributor to Artforum and Cabinet. His current research focuses on artists' engagements with legal and bureaucratic process in Fluxus and Conceptual art. 

Kerry Gaertner is an arts professional interested in the intersection of Art and Law. Currently a student at Columbia University, she will receive her masters in Art History/Critical Theory in Spring 2010. Her thesis focuses on the photographic archive and its (in)ability to document trauma. Ms. Gaertner works at Art Resource, New York, researching and licensing images  from major museums and archives including MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre. Previously, Ms. Gaertner worked as a curatorial assistant in the department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A 2001 graduate of Wellesley College, she spent a year in Vienna studying the German language and European art and history. Her senior thesis was written on the Adele Bloch-Bauer restitution case.

Nate Harrison is an artist and writer working at the intersection of intellectual property, cultural production and the formation of creative processes in electronic media. He has produced projects and exhibited for The American Museum of Natural History, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Kunstverein in Hamburg and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, among others. He has also lectured at the University of Rochester, Experience Music Project, Seattle and the University of Glasgow, among others. Nate co-directed the project space ESTHETICS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (www.eslprojects.org) from 2004-2008. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts and is a doctoral candidate, Art and Media History, Theory and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Currently Nate is on the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Adam Kleinman is a curator and critic who has programmed numerous projects ranging from intimate site specific performances to museum-scale exhibitions, conferences and various print based endeavors.  Kleinman is Curator at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, where he is currently presenting a nomadic themed lecture program visiting various sites of legal negotiation to foster an "image" of the legal system and its concerns today.  In addition to his curatorial work, Kleinman is a frequent contributor to multiple magazines including Bomb, e-flux journal, and Texte zur Kunst for which he runs an monthly column, New York Letters.

 

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