Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Toby Devan Lewis
Jacolby Satterwhite
Jacolby Satterwhite’s video works bring together 3-D animation, drawings, and live performance to construct utopian digital worlds. Within this uncharted digital architecture, Satterwhite explores personal history, identity and memory. Satterwhite often incorporates personal sources such as his mother’s drawings, which he hand-traces and imports into 3D animation programs to build lush, computer-generated landscapes. Into these digital realms he inserts multiple elaborately costumed avatars, whose kinetic gestures compose a sensual physical choreography. Fusing pop culture, subculture, and art history in his video work and performance, Satterwhite creates visually dazzling tableaux that reflect the changing spatial and bodily anxieties and desires of the digital world. Satterwhite’s computer-generated realms densely layered with proliferating drawings, objects and performances encompass animated narratives of personal memory and identity.
He has exhibited at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Studio Museum in Harlem, Bronx AIM Biennial, New Frontiers at the Sundance Film Festival, and is represented by OHWOW Gallery in Los Angeles. He has an MFA from University of Pennsylvania, has studied at Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture and Maryland Institute College of Arts, and has received awards and residencies from Louis Comfort Tifanny Grant, Art Matters, Headlands, Center for Arts, LMCC Workspace, and Provincetown Fine Arts Works Center, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem.
Events & Exhibitions
2020Solidarity: Support ISCP
May 1–May 31, 2020
Jacolby Satterwhite, How Lovely Is Me Being As I Am, 2014, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Alasdair McLuckie
Alasdair McLuckie’s practice adopts meticulous process to explore mythology, ritual, and rebirth using drawing and craft with a strong formalist aesthetic sensibility. Each work’s detail translates into a dense visually symbolic language that expresses the infinite possibilities of creation, and unifies process, material, image, and concept. A broad folk narrative traditionally underpinned each project, and recent works have also explored materiality and the creative process, while continuing to explore the relationship of tribal arts to modernism and contemporary Western art traditions.
Alasdair McLuckie (born 1984) graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne with a BFA in Painting in 2007. Solo exhibitions include Ten Cubed, Melbourne, 2013; Murray White Room, Melbourne, 2012 and 2010; Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2009. Group exhibitions include Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, 2014; and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Heide Museum, Melbourne, and Art Basel, Hong Kong, all 2013.
Alasdair McLuckie, Modern Love, 2014, Archival inkjet print, 16 1/2 x 12 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2015: Danish Arts Foundation
Sandra Vaka Olsen
Sandra Vaka Olsen is interested in the ambivalent relationship between the contemporary body and the constant surge of technological developments of increasingly invasive nature. Her conceptual approach in sculpture and photography explores how human perception, body and identity are altered in minute and almost undetectable ways via the digital realm, pharmaceutics and other technological improvements. Through her artistic output she aims to bring to light otherwise invisible filters that we gradually include as part of our shared perception of the world in an ever changing, augmented reality.
Sandra Vaka Olsen (born 1980, Stavanger) holds a BA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where she graduated in 2011. Her work has been the subject of the solo exhibitions including Fauna and IMO, both in Copenhagen, and has recently been included in group shows at Boetzelaer|Nispen, Amsterdam; Center, Berlin; Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger; Loyal, Stockholm; Stoneroses, Berlin; SixtyEight, Copenhagen; Grand Century, New York; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; Pavilions Without Walls, Performa 13, New York; CEO Gallery, Malmø; Malmö Konsthall; Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger; Toves, Copenhagen; and Rogaland Contemporary Art Center, Stavanger. Furthermore she co-curates the artist run exhibition space Toves in Copenhagen. At the moment, Vaka lives and works between Berlin, Copenhagen and Stavanger.
Sandra Vaka Olsen, Sunshield, 2014, C-print, developed by artist with suncream finger-paintings, acrylic frame and epoxy drips, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.
