2019 Fellows
2019 6-Week Solo Recipients:
Erin Currier (Visual Artist)
Erin is a Santa Fe based artist whose recent mixed media work has been focused on contemporizing and subverting artistic masterpieces by artists such as Manet and Tiepolo. These works were inspired by residencies, research and studio time in Italy and Peru. These works stay true to the composition, palette, and overall aesthetic of these masters, while also remaining loyal to her own vision and voice. At this residency Erin will develop a suite of mixed media collage studies on paper, and to create a large-scale collage painting on panel quoting and updating a masterpiece, inspired by the human realm—its concerns and its culture—encountered in Joshua Tree.
Erin is a Santa Fe based artist whose recent mixed media work has been focused on contemporizing and subverting artistic masterpieces by artists such as Manet and Tiepolo. These works were inspired by residencies, research and studio time in Italy and Peru. These works stay true to the composition, palette, and overall aesthetic of these masters, while also remaining loyal to her own vision and voice. At this residency Erin will develop a suite of mixed media collage studies on paper, and to create a large-scale collage painting on panel quoting and updating a masterpiece, inspired by the human realm—its concerns and its culture—encountered in Joshua Tree.
Sungjae Lee (Installation Artist)
Sungjae is a Los Angeles based artist whose arduous and repetitive artistic labor is both the gateway to relief of anxiety and compulsion and a necessity to portray the infinitesimal parts of whole objects. Objects that are minute, delicate, and unpredictable are expanded in his works, and his meticulous details draw oppositions between parts and entireties. For this residency Sungjae will create a new nylon and cotton thread installation "Her Real Secret: Who’s Afraid of Lingeries?" This is the second piece of the "Her Real Secret" series that explores paradoxical signs between commercial sexuality vs. religious sublimity.
Sungjae is a Los Angeles based artist whose arduous and repetitive artistic labor is both the gateway to relief of anxiety and compulsion and a necessity to portray the infinitesimal parts of whole objects. Objects that are minute, delicate, and unpredictable are expanded in his works, and his meticulous details draw oppositions between parts and entireties. For this residency Sungjae will create a new nylon and cotton thread installation "Her Real Secret: Who’s Afraid of Lingeries?" This is the second piece of the "Her Real Secret" series that explores paradoxical signs between commercial sexuality vs. religious sublimity.
Nicole Banowetz (Sculptor)
Nicole is a Denver based sculptor who makes sewn inflatable sculptures and delicate assembled forms. Her work is inspired by the natural world. She addresses human qualities while using the imagery she finds in the animal, plant, mineral, and bacterial worlds. For this residency her work will reflect obligate mutualism, when one organism cannot survive without the other. In Joshua Tree the Yucca plant and the yucca moth have a delicate and balanced relationship that aids both species to reproduce. Nicole will create two inflatable pieces with multiple elements that represent these two organisms and their relationship to each other. These soft sculptures will be used in a performance in the national park that will be filmed and photographed.
Nicole is a Denver based sculptor who makes sewn inflatable sculptures and delicate assembled forms. Her work is inspired by the natural world. She addresses human qualities while using the imagery she finds in the animal, plant, mineral, and bacterial worlds. For this residency her work will reflect obligate mutualism, when one organism cannot survive without the other. In Joshua Tree the Yucca plant and the yucca moth have a delicate and balanced relationship that aids both species to reproduce. Nicole will create two inflatable pieces with multiple elements that represent these two organisms and their relationship to each other. These soft sculptures will be used in a performance in the national park that will be filmed and photographed.
7-Week Group Recipients:
Annika Bowker (Visual Artist & Designer)
Annika’s practice is a combination of art, architecture, craft and research. During the residency she will produce two tapestries featuring different dried plant species. These tapestries will be part of a series of six, and the product of a project, Migration, that has been developing over the last 18 months. This work investigates and presents the plant life that exists along the US/Mexico border to tell a story of current social or environmental consequence. A selection of these dried plants will be woven into large format tapestries for exhibition alongside research material and photographs. In addition to her art practice, Annika is a designer and maker of custom furniture, consults as a designer and artist for New York architecture firm Leroy Street Studio and is a guest critic to Pratt Graduate School of Interior Design in Brooklyn, New York.
Annika’s practice is a combination of art, architecture, craft and research. During the residency she will produce two tapestries featuring different dried plant species. These tapestries will be part of a series of six, and the product of a project, Migration, that has been developing over the last 18 months. This work investigates and presents the plant life that exists along the US/Mexico border to tell a story of current social or environmental consequence. A selection of these dried plants will be woven into large format tapestries for exhibition alongside research material and photographs. In addition to her art practice, Annika is a designer and maker of custom furniture, consults as a designer and artist for New York architecture firm Leroy Street Studio and is a guest critic to Pratt Graduate School of Interior Design in Brooklyn, New York.
Rae DelBianco (Writer)
As a former cattle farmer and a queer female writer, Rae is a member of two communities in opposition to each other. Her writing centers on identity, survival, and uncovering the darker corners of American life. Rae's acclaimed debut novel, Rough Animals, was published in June 2018 is set in the Utah desert and centers on the human costs of rural isolation and the violence underlying everyday life. During this residency Rae will work on her second novel, Dope and Cattle. A connection to the open land is at the heart of her work. Rae DelBianco grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she began competitively showing livestock at the age of eight and founded a beef cattle operation at fourteen. She now lives outside New York.
As a former cattle farmer and a queer female writer, Rae is a member of two communities in opposition to each other. Her writing centers on identity, survival, and uncovering the darker corners of American life. Rae's acclaimed debut novel, Rough Animals, was published in June 2018 is set in the Utah desert and centers on the human costs of rural isolation and the violence underlying everyday life. During this residency Rae will work on her second novel, Dope and Cattle. A connection to the open land is at the heart of her work. Rae DelBianco grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she began competitively showing livestock at the age of eight and founded a beef cattle operation at fourteen. She now lives outside New York.
Ben Hamburger (Visual Artist)
Ben is a painter, muralist, community artist, and educator that is interested in the potential of art to find meaning in complex situations. As people, cultures, and environments change, he paints moments of tension and fluctuation. His work is often informed by painting outdoors, rendering the world around him while immersed in it. The figurative work planned for this residency began as a series of paintings about his personal struggles with depression that was affected by a short trip exploring Joshua Tree National Park and becoming captivated by the rock formations. Ben is currently based in Carrboro, North Carolina maintaining his practice, teaching, and working on commissions with a design firm.
Ben is a painter, muralist, community artist, and educator that is interested in the potential of art to find meaning in complex situations. As people, cultures, and environments change, he paints moments of tension and fluctuation. His work is often informed by painting outdoors, rendering the world around him while immersed in it. The figurative work planned for this residency began as a series of paintings about his personal struggles with depression that was affected by a short trip exploring Joshua Tree National Park and becoming captivated by the rock formations. Ben is currently based in Carrboro, North Carolina maintaining his practice, teaching, and working on commissions with a design firm.
Serena Hazard (Painter)
In the last 5 years Serena's work has increasingly become both a record and response to what we are experiencing on the planet now. She primarily creates landscapes by constructing, painting, sanding, and scratching back, then a story emerges from the layered history of the painting. For this residency Serena wants to put herself outside of her comfort zone and familiar landscape of Sonoma County, CA to embed body and soul in a foreign environment. Serena will create new work inspired by the political, cultural, indigenous and geologic history of Joshua Tree and overlay the present environmental threats to the land, the organizations that are responding to these threats and the pulse of the present creative community.
In the last 5 years Serena's work has increasingly become both a record and response to what we are experiencing on the planet now. She primarily creates landscapes by constructing, painting, sanding, and scratching back, then a story emerges from the layered history of the painting. For this residency Serena wants to put herself outside of her comfort zone and familiar landscape of Sonoma County, CA to embed body and soul in a foreign environment. Serena will create new work inspired by the political, cultural, indigenous and geologic history of Joshua Tree and overlay the present environmental threats to the land, the organizations that are responding to these threats and the pulse of the present creative community.