Introducing Winter Residents and their work, presenting current and past projects with projected image and video. Arrive early beginning 5:30pm for refreshments and to meet the artists and writer. Presentations begin at 6:00pm.
CARA DESPAIN - installation, drawing, photography, video - Miami, Florida
SOREN HOPE – painting - New Haven, Connecticut
CHRIS TOWNSEND - art criticism - Antwerp, Belgium
CARA DESPAIN
Miami, Florida - 2nd floor studio
Cara Despain is an artist working in film and video, sound, sculpture, photography and installation addressing issues of land use/ownership, climate change, visualizing the Anthropocene and the persistent problematic dimensions of frontierism and their impacts on eco- and social systems. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and currently lives in Miami, Florida and works between the two. She holds a BFA from the University of Utah (2006). She was selected for a 2021 Harpo Foundation Award, and in 2021 she completed her first permanent public art commission for the Underline with Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places. She was also a finalist for the Creative Capital award in 2021, and participated in a fieldwork mentorship program with Southeast Arts and Fieldscreen International which was supported by a grant from the Australian Government. Her work is included in the Rubell Family and Scholl Collections, as well as the New Mexico State University Art Museum, State of Utah, Salt Lake County, Miami-Dade County and Miami International Airport art collections. Recent solo exhibitions include FROM DUST at the Southern Utah Museum of Art; In Memoriam: Carbon Paintings at the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah; Specter at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach and Specter New Mexico at New Mexico State University Art Museum in Las Cruces, NM. Despain’s work has been featured in numerous publications such as The Guardian, Hyperallergic.com, Thirdtext.org, The Art Newspaper, Sculpture Magazine. A short documentary about her and her work aired on Art Loft, WPBT and PBS and screened at the Miami International Film Festival (2016). caradespain.com
Figure 2 Score excerpt from Leaving Cheyenne
SOREN HOPE
New Haven, Connecticut - 3rd floor studio
Soren Hope paints the body as a site of uncertainty. Themes of swapping, probing, and the fallibility of embodiment play out between the figures and within the surface of the paint. In their ongoing body of work, costumes, pranks, double meanings, and incidental resemblances test the trustworthiness of perception. Born in Long Island, New York, Soren is currently based in New Haven, CT. Soren holds a BA in Studio Art from Carleton College and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art. They exhibited their first solo show in 2018 at Duck Creek in the Springs, NY, and have shown work with Perrotin, Yve Yang, Spurs, and in Expo Chicago with Eric Firestone Gallery. Soren has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Low Season Artist Projects. sorenhope.com
About the Color of the Moon, 2023
CHRIS TOWNSEND
Antwerp, Belgium - writing studio
Christopher Townsend is a writer and curator specialising in twentieth century and contemporary art. His particular project is establishing relationships between fine and art and other forms of culture, notably writing and the moving image. He examines the way in which artists corrode the boundaries between media, particularly within modernism, or use new technologies to extend the analysis of art’s languages and the boundaries of subjective experience within film, photography and performance. His books include the first ever monograph on the American photographer, Francesca Woodman and studies of the American video artist Bill Viola and the British sculptor Rachel Whiteread. Recently a professor in the University of London, his scholarly publications have concentrated on the activity of the European modernist avant-garde’s exploration of intermediality and simultaneity, and its relationship to history, in the 1910s and 1920s, including studies of Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger, Henri-Martin Barzun and Ricciotto Canudo. He recently completed a major project with the Tate on Duncan Grant’s Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound (1914). His exhibitions include Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion, (Barbican Art Gallery, 2002) and To Become Like Music (Mummery and Schnelle, 2008). Before entering academia he was a prolific freelance writer and editor on the arts, editor of the photography magazine Hotshoe, and co-producer of the BAFTA nominated Channel 4 arts documentary Vile Bodies (1998). He is now working on a book on the imagination of the Renaissance in the painting and films of the artist Derek Jarman. He is a Senior Research Fellow of the Henry Moore Institute, and recipient of the H.D. Fellowship in American Literature from the Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2019-20. royalholloway.academia.edu/ChristopherTownsend
The Seed Keeper, 2021