Introducing Spring 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.
CLAUDIA HAUSFELD - Photography, Printing, Writing - Reykjavík, Iceland
SIMON PETEPIECE – Sculpture, Drawing, Painting - Montréal, Québec, Canada
MISHA RAI - Fiction - India / Sewanee, Tennessee
CLAUDIA HAUSFELD
Reykjavík, Iceland - Photography, Printing, Writing - 2nd floor studio
Claudia Hausfeld, born in East Berlin, GDR, studied photography at the Zürich University of the Arts from 2004-2006 and visual art at the Iceland Art University from 2010-2012. She has been living in Iceland since 2010. In her work, she is primarily concerned with photography and its relationship to reality. Claudia has been a board member of several artist run initiatives in Iceland, Denmark and Switzerland, among them the Living Art Museum in Reykjavík. She has exhibited widely in Iceland and elsewhere, and recently resigned from her 7-year position as photolab workshop manager of the Iceland Art University. During her time at LHÍ, she reconfigured and expanded the darkroom of the lab and has taught countless courses in experimental photography. She lives and works in Reykjavík. claudiahausfeld.com
Claudia Hausfeld_Tunnel_silver gelatine print_30x40cm
SIMON PETEPIECE
Montréal, Québec, Canada - Sculpture, Drawing, Painting - 3rd floor studio
Simon Petepiece is a self-taught artist living in Montreal, QC. Working directly with construction materials and processes, his practice explores how architectural spaces reflect and manifest our cultural beliefs. Creating objects that exist between sculpture and two-dimensional media, he uses ubiquitous materials like drywall and steel studs as both symbolic elements and substrate for drawing and painting. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal (2024) and Espace Maurice, Montreal (2023). His work can be found in the City of Ottawa Art Collection and he holds a Master’s degree in architecture from Carleton University (2018). simonpetepiece.com
Simon Petepiece_The Dawn Procession (2024)_80x66in_drywall, steel studs
MISHA RAI
India / Sewanee, Tennessee - Fiction - writing studio
Misha Rai is Contributing Editor of the Kenyon Review and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Sewanee: The University of the South. Her prose has been supported by the Kenyon Review Fellowship Program, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, MacDowell, Ucross, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Dana Award in the Novel Category. Her short story “Twenty Years Ago” is a Distinguished story in the 2021 Best American Short Story anthology. misharai.com
