Art & Law Residency Announces 2011 Residents
Blane De St. Croix‘s recent body of work explores the geopolitical landscape through drawing and sculptural installation. De St. Croix conducts extensive research on each project—through site visits, photographic documentation, interviews, and satellite imagery. Employing a combination of natural and industrial materials, he is interested in articulating humankind’s desire to take command over the earth, revealing distinct conflicts with ecology, politics, and ourselves, in large-scale installations that utilize architectural space in a distinct, powerful, and imposing manner. De St. Croix has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Selected awards include: a 2010 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; 2009 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors; The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant; a regional National Endowment for the Arts and other prominent awards. De St. Croix was favorably reviewed by art critic Jerry Saltz in NY magazine last year for his large installation Broken Landscape at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY, the project travelled from NY to F.A.R (Future Arts Research) in Phoenix AZ for a solo exhibition that Bruce W. Ferguson curated. Additionally, his work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in national and international venues. De St. Croix has also been awarded many notable international and national fellowship and artist residencies. Selected residencies at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Foundry Artist Residency, Wisconsin, Djerassi Artist Residency Program, Woodside, CA, Gasworks Artist Studio Residency, Triangle Arts Trust, London, Tyrone Gutherie Center, Ireland, Two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, Peterborough, NH; an Art Omi Artist Residency, Ghent, NY; Special Editions Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY. Blane De St. Croix was born in Boston Massachusetts. Educated at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (M.F.A. – Sculpture) and Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts (B.F.A.-Sculpture with distinction). For more information: www.blanedestcroix.blogspot.com
Molly Dilworth is a Brooklyn based artist who views creative practice as a form of research. Using data from a specific site as a structure, she builds a form for things that invisibly motivate our actions. Her painting Cool Water, Hot Island was selected as the surface treatment for the 5 block 50,000 sq. ft. pedestrian plazas on Broadway in Times Square. Her 2010 rooftop painting was made in conjunction with the NYC CoolRoofs program was commissioned by 350.org as part of their international climate change art initiative.
Graham Parker is a multimedia artist and writer based in New York. His work explores digital culture as seen within a historical continuum of human inspiration and folly relating to the growth of technology – often finding unexpected, even uncanny connections between these different moments and modes. Encompassing 2D work, installation, video and performance, his work has been commissioned by the Tate Gallery, Henry Moore Institute, Centre for the Understanding of the Built Environment, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, EMPAC and the Arts Council of England, amongst others, and is held in public and private collections around the world. He is the author of Fair Use (notes from spam) (published by Book Works), and is a former participant in both the Studio and the Architecture and Urbanism programs of the Whitney Museum ISP.
Risa Puno creates interactive installations and functional objects that play with elements of everyday life. She has exhibited at national and international venues, including: Socrates Sculpture Park; MMX Open Art Venue in Berlin, Germany; Queens Museum of Art; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Jersey City Museum; apexart; Bronx River Art Center; Galerie Stefan Röpke in Cologne, Germany; and Scope New York: Curator’s Choice. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, and artnet Magazine. She has received several awards and honors, including project grants from Socrates Sculpture Park and Jersey City Museum, participation in the Artists in the Marketplace program at The Bronx Museum, and an Emerging Artist Grant from Scope New York. She has lectured on a panel for A-Lab Artist Forum, and as a visiting artist at Dumbo Arts Center, Satellite Academy, and Monmouth University. Puno was born in 1981 and grew up in Lousiville, Kentucky. She studied art and medicine at Brown University and earned her MFA from New York University. She currently lives and works in New York City. http://www.risapuno.com/
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