Past Visiting and International Artists 2008


Australia
	Peter Atkins (Australia) Artist May - August 2008 This new series of work titled ‘readymade abstraction’ sees a return, after a decade, to the use of tarpaulins as the support for my paintings. The shift that has occurred also sees a less painterly approach to the work leaving instead the untouched tarpaulin to act as the ‘ground’ for my painted floating forms. What attracts me most about these used tarpaulins is the encoded history, built up over time, sometimes years, of a narrative that is literally embedded in the surface of the material. The stains, creases, faded canvas and repaired seams and tears , impossible to fabricate, become remnant reminders of lives lived and journeys undertaken. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
	Ian Haig (Australia) Multimedia Artist February - May 2008 Ian Haig works at the intersection of visual arts and media arts. His work explores the strangeness of everyday reality negotiated through subject matter that is at times perverse and provocative. His practice focuses on the themes of the human body, devolution, mutation, transformation and psychopathology, through the lens of low cultural forms. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
	James Newitt August - November Video / Installation James’ work investigates the conditions surrounding different social and cultural contexts by engaging with people, places and situations. He predominantly incorporate video as well as sound and text installation to create experimental narratives that explore concepts surrounding individual and collective identity, sense of place, memory and history, as well as public and private space. VIEW MORE IMAGES
Croatia
	Marko Tadic (Croatia) Artist April 2008 - May 2008 In the recent works of Marko Tadic, urban myths relying on the aestheticism of punk rock, fanzines, comic books, manga, and B-movies, are merged with art-historical references, fairy-tales and literary quotations, into an organic unity. Tadic does not recoil from arranging these realities on to the surface of wooden souvenirs, paper plates, or wooden boards. In addition, he does this playfully, almost childishly, by using techniques with which many among us used to dirty our small fingers in our early childhood - felt-tip pen or ink. In this way, he constructs multileveled, phantasmagoric stories with only a hint of narration. As in all boyish drawing, be it doodles or graffiti on school tables or bedroom furniture, and evident on the wooden boards of Tadic in his latest body of work, it is possible to perceive a modified hero, or at least - a robot. But when the boyish passion for drawing is combined with the curious investigation into abandoned objects and a fetish for insignificant human traces, such as an abandoned address book, diary, or simply a notebook, imaginary beings find themselves in a rather overpopulated neighbourhood. Heroes taken from the remnants of everyday life evolve in accordance with the precarious rules and whims of that small, mythical world; while the rebus-like landscapes, with their inevitable subtext of transition, conceal the laws of creation of new mythical heroes. VIEW MORE IMAGES >> VIEW VIDEO CREATED DURING RESIDENCY >>
	Vedran Perkov August - September Multi Media Artist Born 1972. He has graduated painting at Art Academy Brera in Milan, Italy. He is now teaching at painting department of Art Academy at Split University. He is member of HULU, Split and HZSU; he has been exhibiting since 1997 in Croatia and abroad. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
Israel
	Judith Margolis Painter Judith Margolis' work is about what she reads in the newspapers, current events, and social issues. Margolis' paintings find the nexus point where the political and spiritual confront each other. They are informed by the combined influence of German expressionist figuration and color field abstraction (with all the political and spiritual underpinnings that these art movements imply). VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
Mexico
	Marcos Castro (Mexico) Media Artist April 2008 - June 2008 Atrocious and monumental, the capacity for cynicism through the cartoon. The play in Castro's drawings poetically relates the ambiguities between the story of an event and the manifestation of cynicism as an essential way of transmitting these states. Looking through these images forcibly gives the sense of satisfying the need for surprise at the unusualness of the event analogically caricatured by animals. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
Poland
	Aneta Szylak Curator Aneta Szylak has worked as a curator and art critic based in Gdansk, Poland since 1985. Ms. Szylak is a Vice-President of the Wyspa Progress Foundation, a non-profit art organization established in 1994. In years 1998 Ms. Szylak founded the Center for Contemporary Art Laznia (Bathhouse) and was its Director until spring 2001. Currently she is a co-founder of the Wyspa Institute of Art - the intellectual environment for contemporary visual culture - in the former Gdansk Shipyard premises.
Serbia
	Dejan Kaludjerovic October - November Multi Media Artist Kaludjerovi’s paintings and installations address issues of freedom and democracy, identity, moral, responsibility, political correctness, and the various manifestations of fear, aggression, and obsession present within modern societies. During his residency he planned and researched a new media project, “Je suis Malade” which works with images of children, loss or innocence, and exploitation VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
Taiwan
	Hui-Yu Su (Taiwan) Multi Media Artist Su, Hue-Yu was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1976, and graduated from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2002. Su Hue-Yu participated in the 1999"228 Memorial Exhibition Historical Scene and Image" at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. In 2002, Su took part in the exhibition entitled"CO2 Taiwan Avant-garde Documenta" in Huashan Arts District, Taipei. In 2005, he participated in the"Pseudo Hacker's Art in Parallel Zone" at Taipei MOCA and the"Taiwan- China Performance Art Meeting" at the Taipei and Kaohsiung Fine Arts Museums. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
	Sue - Ching You September - November Multi Media Artist Taiwanese artist Sue-Ching You works with various mediums that exploit words and creates humorous installations that not only seem obvious but alter the way you see imagery. You will be creating a new project while in residency at 18th Street called, GIVE+ PROJECT, a worldwide plan. Following the concept of Web 2.0, this project can be participated by anyone, anywhere. A web based and interactive piece that will begin in September 2008 and can be viewed on her blog at http://suechingyou.blogspot.com and she can also be visited at her studio. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>
USA
	Michael Arcega (Visions from the New California, sponsored by the James Irvine Foundation) Multi Media Artist July 2008 Informed by my childhood in the Philippines and an increasing social awareness, the content of my work is grounded in the darker regions of human behavior. I gravitate towards historical injustices that echo our present circumstances. To create an interesting counter point, I balance it with a levity infused with corny jokes and satire, using comedic strategies to defuse overtly dispiriting subjects. The humorous aspect of my work is delivered through language and non-traditional art materials. Tongue-in-cheek wordplay and double entendres add layers of content that can be interpreted in many ways. They also serve as portals into the subtext of the work. My materials often embody a historical value that further complicates the content of the piece. VIEW MORE IMAGES >>