International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP)

iscp open studios december 2003 artists / curators

June 29, 2009, 11:19 pm

about iscp
a visual arts residency unlike any other



Like many visual arts residency programs in New York, the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP ) is a microcosm of the city's cultural diversity: multi-national, multi-lingual and multi-faceted.  Unlike others, however, ISCP makes a concerted effort to connect its artists and curators to the local art community, while connecting the local art community with contemporary art practice from all over the world.

While New York may well be the world's epicenter of contemporary art practice and market, the glut of resources and opportunities, which attract the art immigrant, are precisely the factors, which can be alienating and frustrating.

ISCP is a residency tailored to suit the practical needs of the visiting artist/curator by providing space in which to produce as well as addressing the magnitude of the world's art capital.  The program prides itself on providing an infrastructure, which accelerates integration and interaction with the host culture and in the course of its development, has become a catalyst for introduction, presentation, connection, exposure and dissemination.

The dynamic of ISCP is a programming hybrid conceived to facilitate genuine exchange, specifically its Guest Critic Series and semi-annual Open Weekend Exhibitions.  The Guest Critic Series enables one-on-one studio visits for dialogue and critical feedback with distinguished professionals from the New York and international art worlds.  The Open Weekend Exhibitions attract not only professionals, but a wider audience of art enthusiasts.  In addition, a continual flow of international art traffic passes through the program, making impromptu studio visits and meetings with the artists and curators.
As a direct consequence of connections forged at ISCP, many of the over 500+ artists and curators who have participated in the program since its founding, are now represented by New York galleries and have been included in numerous group exhibitions and projects throughout the United States and abroad.

The raison d'être for an artist is to make art.  The raison d'être for a curator is to communicate art.  The paradigm fostered by ISCP enables these two inter-dependent professions to cohabit, cross-fertilize and interact, while both groups at the same time, inject our host culture with the vitality of the visual language they import to the United States.

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610. ROBERTO COROMINA was born in 1965 and received a BFA from Facultad Sant Jordi, Barcelona in 1989. He lived in New York from 1994 until 1998. He received the Casa de Velazquez Grant for a two-year residency in Madrid in 1998 Coromina has had solo exhibitions at the Fernando Serrano Gallery, Huelva, Spain;  Guido Carbone Gallery, Torino, Italy, and the Monasterio de Veruela, Zaragoza, Spain.  His work has also been featured at ARCO Madrid since 1998. Over the last seven years, he has been working from Old Master paintings by taking fragments, distorting them, and re-painting them.  Recently, Coromina has been using art books as his source — painting and cutting out illustrations from second-hand books and assigning them a new life as objects.  coromina@lycos.com
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701. The video works of FIORENZA MENINI are like UFOs, mysteriously floating above the art world.  Her videos are metaphysical in the strictest sense of the term: they go beyond what is simply physical.  They can also be termed sublime, if we understand the term from Schelling as something which 'remains secret and suddenly manifests itself'.  The artist states: 'I will show neither video, nor photography;  my open studio will be empty.'  Menini presented the performance, Pure Beauty, at Gallery Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2001;  Waiting People for the opening of Le Plateau, Paris, 2002, and Falsa Innociencia, at Fondacion Juan Miro, Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​2003. mylittleplanet@hotmail.com

702. NADIA COEN was born in Zimbabwe, where she lived until moving to New York City in 1979. Coen was actively involved in the East Village art movement of the eighties, conceptualizing and creating significant collaborative book and poster projects, which have been exhibited and collected by galleries, art collections, and museums in the United States and Europe.  Her recent work has evolved into site-specific minimalist installations, incorporating scale, architecture and light.  THE INCLINING EXPERIMENT installation at ISCP is an architectonic light experience.  By transforming the studio into a trapezoidal environment the viewer steps into a series of light projections, which accentuate the experience of light as an ephemeral substance that exists through elongated space and prolonged time.  nadiacoen@earthlink.net

703. PENG HUNG-CHIH was born in 1969 in Taiwan and lives and works in Taipei.  Dogs are the recurring protagonists in Peng Hung-Chih's sculpture and video works.  Because of our empathetic relationship with these creatures, they serve as human surrogates. Peng also suggests that the ambiguity of mixed-breed dogs is a telling symbol of the cultural identity of Taiwan - its territorial status remains contested and its cultural conditions testify to the heterogeneous elements of indigenous cultures, Chinese immigration and complex economic ties to the West.  In Face to Face, the viewer fuses with the animal as he looks into the head of a fiberglass dog to watch a video recorded from a dog's eye view.  One Black/One White cleverly expands Peng's investigations, employing the dominant/submissive relationships between two street dogs to create a dance resembling the oscillations of a metronome.  p2195@ms19.hinet.net

704. AMIEL ROLDAN's body of work represents an inward look at how one can be an idealist in an ever-besieged population and is explored through a contemporary context.  Some of the recurring themes in his past work revolve around politics, religion and the plight of individuals - regression, denial, faith / faithlessness, courage and wit.  I work largely on cultural issues in my paintings, installations and mass prints.  I gain insight to create from popular convictions, lifestyles and Filipino practices.'  Roldan has worked in a variety of media and capacities: documentation and photography as well as coordinating and organizing exhibitions for institutions, such as the Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Kulay Diwa Art Galleries and the Hiraya Gallery.  As one of an independent group of young artists in The Philippines, he has also collaborated with ARS (an artist-run-space) and several exhibition projects, which showcase emerging artists.  Roldan has exhibited extensively at home and abroad.  See www.amiel.tk

705. CHRISTOPH WEBER was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1974. A working grant from the Austrian Ministry of the Arts, enabled Weber to study Fine Arts in Leipzig, followed by Sculpture in Düsseldorf, Germany, and Conceptual Art in Vienna.  According to curator Alexander Koch: 'His work is equally inspired by the dispositions of American Conceptualism as well as by art-theoretical aspects, media-critical analysis and the formal and material confrontation with sculptural issues.  With acute intellectual creativity and joy in experimentation, he succeeds in investigating the media with the expressiveness and poetry of sculptural proceedings.”  Christoph Weber's first solo show will take place in Gallery Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, in February 2004. tov@lo-res.org

706. YUKARI EDAMITSU is a Japanese artist, who works with painting and photography.  She has received an MFA from Kyoto City University of Arts.  The laws fascinate Edamitsu, which govern human beings and nature, leading her to pursue the spiritual power, which forms the being, as opposed to the materialistic. She is influenced by Buddhist philosophy.  y.edamitsu@k9.dion.ne.jp
707. ISABELLE ENG is a French painter, who lives in Manhattan.  She originally hails from Paris and was educated both in France and in the United States.  Her love of Native American Indian Art brought her to the United States, where she came to teach and paint.  She enjoys living in New York, the crossroads of all the world's cultures, which endlessly replenishes itself with new arrivals.  isabelleng@aol.com
708. INES PAIS (Lisbon, 1975) lives and works in Lisbon, Berlin and New York.  She is the founding director of The IP Foundation, which, since 1999, has been collaborating with art-spaces from various countries (Lisbon, Oporto, Madrid, Berlin, New York, Strasbourg, Randers, Paris, Vienna, Nantes, Brest, Kiel , Turin, Glasgow ao).  Inês Pais is also the founder of Chixuania, a fictitious nation of artists, established in 2001. www.theipfoundation.org
709. YANGAH HAM.  In her recent video project, More real than this world, which employs a subjective documentary style, YANGAH HAM deals with the fantasies of people who live in different parts of the world.  During the period of documenting a certain person or a group of people, she shares their experience and waits for the moment their fantasies rise to the surface, capturing them through her own senses.  More real than this world is an open-ended project, consisting of various short stories produced through this process.  Yangah Ham was born in Seoul, South Korea and lived in New York City from 1994 to 2002. She participated in Gwanju Biennale (2002) and exhibited in ArtPace, San Antonio (2000), De Appel in Amsterdam (2003).  Ham's work can currently be seen in the Walsh Gallery in Chicago.  afnature@yahoo.com

710. PETRA LINDHOLM was born in Finland in 1973 and studied at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1996 until 2001. In Lindholm's video work, the artist forms a close connection between image and sound, by employing her own composed music and voice, which adds an idiosyncratic dimension to both the visual and auditory material.  Her films construct multi-layered dreams and memories, eliciting an emotional response.  Her work is in several public collections such as the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.  Lindholm's next solo show will be in January 2004 at Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden and she will be represented in the Armory Show, NYC, in 2004. petralindholm@soon.com
711. CECILIE DAHL works in diverse media such as photography, video , sound, performance, canvas and installation. In the body of work titled, Suckers, the artist explores the notion of oral consumption as it relates to various foods and sweets, human relations, an urge, a taste of and for something, with underlying ambiguities.  Hard Candy, Still Lives and Short Stories stress the psychological aspects, merging the contested zones and the dynamic balance between indulgence, appreciation and compulsion.  Clothes For A Summer Hotel, renegotiates and examines the uncertainties of a communicative situation, raising questions about proximity and issues of illusion and reality.  The integration and fusion of color, sound and imagery in Dahl's work as a whole facilitates an evocative visual language with multi-layered connotations and fields of association.  Dahl was awarded residencies at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and PS1.  New York.  She currently works and lives between New York and Oslo.  Mrs.  Dahl has had several solo and group shows eg: Malmø Museum, Sweden, 1999;  Gallery F-15, Norway, 2001;  Velan, Torino, Italy, 2001;  Egizio?s Project, New York, 2001. cecid@bway.net

712. FAHRETTIN ÖRENLI was born and raised in Eastern Turkey and has been living and working in Holland since 1991. He graduated in photography from the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam, 1998, and attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam from 2000 until 2001. According to the artist: 'What we call reality can be seen as a relationship between the social sphere and the surreal, a 'hyper-reality', a socio- surrealism, a new reality, a creation represented through diverse media that comes into existence because different elements merge with one another.  I stand at the intersection of these different and interrelated spheres.  I work with photography, painting, video, installation and poetry, using these different disciplines to represent, on another level, the inter-relationship of a variety of subjects.'  Curator and critic, Gerardo Mosquera, states that: 'Örenli is exploring the symbolic and expressive possibilities of painting to tackle contemporary subjects.  Also a poet, Örenli combines literature and visual arts to deal with the complex human, social and political issues of our times.'  f_orenli@yahoo.com

713. MARKUS WETZEL sometimes calls himself an island maker, since he works in a field one could call virtual land art.  Building one's own island implies certain prerequisites, such as weather, shelter and studio, some boats, a beach, bad dreams from a big storm and so on.  The artist has been working on an idea about the longing for a fictive quietness, a desire unrequited and impossible to achieve in life.  Wetzel employs computer animation, installation, video and architectural elements. Two and a half years ago he came to New York on a one-year fellowship and has divided his time between New York and Switzerland since.  He has shown extensively in venues throughout Europe.  Wetzel's next solo show will be at the James Nicholson Gallery, San Francisco.  markuswetzel@compuserve.com
714. Over the past ten years, HANNES KATER has developed a personal iconography of drawing by producing made-to-order drawings, based upon short written anecdotes submitted to the artist by viewers.  He, in turn, ponders the stories and reinvents them, the aggregate of which is an individual 2-D semiology or 'pictionary'.  Hannes Kater thus names himself a drawing generator, whose large 3-D installations, as in his studio, are a dynamic macrocosm of constellations of thought and interpretation already produced on paper, drawn directly on the walls and augmented by styrofoam cut-outs.  Quote: 'I am an embedded draftsman.'  www.hanneskater.com
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801. SO-YEON CHOI was born in 1968, in Seoul, Korea and now lives and works in New York.  In her most recent project, Collapsible Museum, she plays with the image of prestigious museums.  The artist wishes to present museum iconography from a different standpoint.  Collapsible Museum is a new kind of paper sculpture.  In one piece, a cut out image of the Metropolitan Museum disappears when folded, leaving the figures of camera-clicking visitors against a foreground of an empty wall.  This image of the Metropolitan Museum suggests a vestige of ancient Rome.  Choi walks around the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History meticulously taking data.  She would like to reverse our perception of symbols.  Even if the Metropolitan Museum doesn't fall, her effort to conserve is remarkable.  She has also created a small organization, which encourages viewers to become members of Collapsible Museum.  soyeon_choi@hotmail.com

802. JUDY RADUL lives in Vancouver, Canada.  A consideration of forms and conditions of performance informs her practice, which includes video, installation, photography, live actions and audio works.  Several recent installations have focused on observing actors and directors in rehearsal.  Recent exhibitions include: The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver;  The Belkin Satellite, Vancouver;  YYZ Gallery, Toronto;  The Institute of Contemporary Art, London (performance).  Her critical writing has been included in several publications, most recently: Just Try It: Thoughts on Art and Science Experiments, Public, #25, Ed.  Susan Lord, Gary Kibbins, Art Is All Over, Ed. Karen Henry, 2001 and Live at the End of the Century: Aspects of Performance Art in Vancouver, from December 13 to March 7, 2004. jradul@shaw.ca

803. MARIANNE THERESE GRØNNOW is a Copenhagen-based Danish artist who trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.  Grønnow is primarily a painter, but has employed other media eg printmaking, wood/paper stencils and drawing.  Grønnow is dedicated to one particular motif: the flower.  While an almost ritualistic repetition is significant, repetition does not imply one and the same painting.  On the contrary, Grønnow constantly subjects her flowers to different techniques, styles and symbolic significance.  In earlier works, themes were vanity, impermanence, the mysterious and the secretive.  Recently, the artist has been more interested in the dreamlike hallucinatory settings of enchanted artificial landscapes in bright colors.  Grønnow has lived in Paris, Rome and Madrid and has been awarded residencies at Djerassi Foundation, San Francisco, USA;  Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain and ISCP, New York, USA.  Grønnow is represented at The National Danish Gallery, Malmø Museum of Art, Sweden, The Swedish Endowment for the Arts, Sweden;  The Danish Endowment for the Arts, Denmark and NY Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark.  groennov@mobilixnet.dk

804. KJELL BJØRGEENGEN is an artist from Norway, who works with digital and analog image processing.  His works deal with the conditions of visual representation and meaning, including the borderline, where video images produce an oscillating flicker.  Kjell Bjørgeengen is currently performing live video with Evan Parker?s Electro Acoustic Ensemble, while preparing a major exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo.  kbjorgee@notam02.no

805. LAURENT MONTARON is a French artist, who was born in 1972. He lives and works in Paris.  He graduated in Fine Arts from Nantes in 2001. Montaron's work presents the viewer on first encounter with familiar subjects.  Although the situations are arranged and subsequently photographed by the artist, they appear as 'stills', or frozen moments of beauty and calm.  Generating a feeling of doubt, their remoteness encourages the viewer to search for clues through identification and the experiences and memories triggered by association.  Montaron works in mixed media: sound, video and photography.  He has had solo exhibitions in the Center National de la Photographie, Paris and in FRAC Champagnes-Ardennes, Reims.  His work was recently shown in London at FA Projects Gallery and in Subréel at the Mac of Marseille.  He is represented in several public and private collections.  laurentmontaron@hotmail.com
8TH FLOOR BAR.  CHRISTINA LUCAS' work deals with the idea of ​​power.  The artist introduces her discourse by humorously embracing topics such as the art world, sexual identity, the role of woman, education, and super-heroes.  Lucas defines herself as a philanthropist woman, who would like to find a way of making the public show their teeth, because she maintains that people show their teeth not only to smile, but also to fight.  Born in Spain in 1973, Lucas studied Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense, Madrid and received her MFA from the University of California at Irvine.  She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, among which are: Monocanal, Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, 2003;  Otros inclidos, House of America, Madrid, 2003;  Magazine, Sala Amadís of Madrid, 2002;  33.3, Deep River Gallery, Los Angeles, 2000;  Downtown Video, The Bradbury Building of Los Angeles, 2000;  Concrete Lab, Laguna Art Museum of California, 2000;  Video/Art, Sala Rekalde of Bilbao, 1999;  Domestic, La Panaderia, Mexico DF, 1998;  and La ceguera, Girona Art Museum, 1997. gatamelatta@hotmail.com

809. ROSE HSU was born in 1963 in Taiwan and received her MA in Art History from Queens College, CUNY, in 1990. In 1991, she completed a post-graduate program in Museum Studies at New York University.  After working at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Hsu became a curator for the L'Orangerie International Art Consultant Co.  Ltd., based in Taipei, Taiwan, where she is today.  Hsu organized an international touring exhibition with Musée de Louvre, Paris, in 2000 and conceived an Artist-in-Residency program in Taiwan from 2000 - 2003. In addition, she has curated several public art projects in Taiwan.  Hsu's tenure at ISCP allows her to spend three months in New York researching Public Art and Artist-in-Residency Programs in the United States.  lorang.art@msa.hinet.net

810. FERNANDO VARELA was born in Mexico City in 1969. He studied visual arts and photography at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas (National School for the Plastic Arts) in the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.  He specialized in interactive installation and multimedia production at the Centro Nacional de las Artes, where he also ran workshops on digitalization and new technologies.  In 1994 and 1996 he was awarded grants by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de Mexico and the Fundacion UNAM Since the mid-nineties his group exhibitions have included the II Bienal de Monterey, Museo de Monterey Mexico, Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven , Museo Carrillo Gil Mexico and 10 Mexican Photographers, DuBois Gallery in Lehigh University Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Varela has worked as the coordinator of the digital graphics workshop at the Centro Multimedia of the Centro Nacional de las Artes Mexico since 1994. stavelac@yahoo.com.mx

811. SYBILLE RATH is a German artist, based in Munich.  Extensive travel in Central America and a DAAD grant to live and work in Mexico in 2000, enriched the artist's chromatic vocabulary.  The experience of the region's unique cultural mix — pre-Columbian art, Spanish architecture/religion, modern art and lifestyle influences from North America — all combined to charge her canvases with new energy and elements.  For Rath, the process of painting acquires importance not only from technical expertise, but conceptually too.  Experience is the impetus for her to challenge her potential and its limits.  syrath@gmx.de

812. DAVID KRIPPENDORFF: 'I am half-German, half-American, grew up in Rome and studied in Berlin.  Because this is so culturally confusing, I chose a more abstract place within which to operate ie Hollywood.  All of my work incorporates images and footage from Hollywood movies, which I use to express my own stories.  My work has been shown in Berlin NGBK, Gebauer Gallery;  ICA, London;  Massimo Audiello and White Columns, NYC;  Rotterdam Film Festival and Scope, LA and Miami.  A one-minute video piece was included in the 'Concert in Cape Town as part of the One Minute of Art to Aids benefit event.  dkrippendorff@thing.net

813. MAIDER LOPEZ was born in Spain in 1975 and studied Fine Arts at the Basque University, followed by an MFA from Chelsea College of Art, London.  She has been exhibiting since 1999 throughout Spain and Europe.  Lopez' work overlaps between art, architecture and design by making objects from everyday life eg tables, lamps, or elements of architecture such as false walls or floors.  For her Open Studio presentation, Lopez has conceived a site-specific installation, based upon the reflections of her work in the studio window.  maiderlo@lycos.com

814. ANDREA PESENDORFER studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.  The basic formula of aesthetic methodology, namely to acquire aesthetic information by the controlled destruction of known qualities of perception, is apparent in Pesendorfer's early works.  Here, materiality articulates conceptuality and vice versa, due to the basic understanding of textiles that opens up multi-layered connotations, arising from text and texture to the so-called Boromean Knot.  Pesendorfer deals with surface, body and identity, while concentrating on the important issues of covering, veiling, exposing and making visible. Different media are employed, for example: working with fabric, painting and photography.  The artist has had solo exhibitions in Vienna, Cologne, Berlin and New York and has participated in group exhibitions in Europe and New York.  andreapese@to.or.at

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