Past Residents
Past Resident2016: Sherry and Joel Mallin Family Foundation
Pepe Mar
Pepe Mar is a cognoscente of materiality at the forefront of social fluency and personal obsession. Mar excavates the ritual narratives inherent in secondhand stores, science fiction, celebrity, commercial design, and social media to create abstract and anthropomorphic barometers of contemporary culture. His rich, experiential process recalls the history of assemblage and painting. Mar heeds the call of Roland Barthes’ universal signifiers and answers with icons both appropriated and original. His work is committed to a personal and universal exploration of cultural alienation.
Pepe Mar (born 1977, Mexico) lives and works in Miami. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and abroad, and is included in major collections including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and Pérez Art Museum, Miami and DiverseWorks, Houston. Mar has participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting, Bronx Museum International Residency Program, and the Banff Centre Residency. He was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Wavemaker grant for his project Versus, 2015. Mar received his BFA from California College of Art, San Francisco and his MFA from Florida International University.
Events & Exhibitions
2016 ISCP Benefit Auction
September 21–October 5, 2016
Pepe Mar, The Somnambulist's Garden, 2015, Collage on wood, 58 x 34 x 12 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2015: Danish Arts Foundation2013: Danish Arts Foundation
Annesofie Sandal
Annesofie Sandal’s work is strongly influenced by location and interest in sociocultural structures. Her sculptures and installations examine the thin line between exploration and exploitation in the production of cultural capital. She merges motifs and stories from different periods of time with existing shapes and materials to emphasize how the consequences of human behavior affect heritage and history. In doing so, she shows how the current exchange between man and nature connects past, present and future, and how the understanding of cultural, historic and religious symbols changes over time according to context.
Annesofie Sandal (born 1977 Seoul, South Korea) holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Visual Arts. She is based in Copenhagen and New York City. Her work has been displayed at numerous venues, including a solo exhibition at Rooster Gallery in New York City and Ace Art Inc. in Winnipeg, Canada. Last year, she was commissioned to create a sculpture for the Odense Sculpture Triennial and was invited for an international fellowship with The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, South Korea. Sandal has curated group shows at the National Art Studio in Seoul, South Korea and elsewhere. Sandal is also the founder and member of art group, Island Life. She recently participated in Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s residency program.
Annesofie Sandal, Mixed Paper, 2015, Video still, 2.58 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Denmark
Past Resident2015: La Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon
Julie Béna
Julie Béna’s work explores the threshold between one perception and another; between being a team player or a spoilsport; participation or abstinence. Béna refers to the exhibition space as her “playground,” which she populates with performers, singers, sculptures, photos, videos and installations. Early in life, Béna acted in a roving theatrical troupe in France. In the past few years, the transient and artificial staging of play resurfaced in her practice, alongside prominent use of text.
Julie Béna (born 1982, Pantin, France) currently works in New York City. Her past solo exhibitions include: Nail Tang, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France, 2015; Destiny, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, Paris, 2015; T&T consortium: You’re Already Elsewhere, The French Institute Alliance Française, New York, 2014. Her selected collective exhibitions and screenings include: Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015; Artists’ Film Club: Breaking Joints: Part 2, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2015; RIDEAUX / blinds, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France, 2015; Late capitalism, it’s like, almost over, The Luminary, St Louis, Missouri, 2014; Things, Design Cloud, Chicago, 2014; Graphic Design, Prague, 2014; La Méthode Jacobson, Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 2013. She exhibited performance projects at Fahrenheit, Los Angeles, 2014; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2014; PERFORMA 13, New York, 2013; La Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France, 2012 and Fonderie Darling, Montréal, Canada, 2011. Béna studied at the Villa Arson in Nice, France and attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. From 2012 to 2013 she was part of Le Pavillon, the research laboratory of Le Palais de Tokyo.
Julie Béna, Les Nuits de la pleine lune, 2014, Print on fabric and blinds structure, Size variable. Courtesy of the artist.
