Laura Fitzgerald

Laura Fitzgerald’s work looks at narratives within and around place, small forgotten moments and events that have become normalized through repetition and erasure, both physically and mentally. Looking at the work of writers such as Tom McCarthy, Italo Calvino, David Markson, Lydia Davis and David Bartholeme, Fitzgerald attempts to produce new narrative forms through drawing, video and text. Her goal is to expand thinking around the notion of place using methods such as ad hoc, repetition and control. Fitzgerald often examines ‘the hand’ as a subject matter.

Laura Fitzgerald is an emerging artist working within an expanded practice revolving around video and drawing. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2013 with an MA in Fine Art and was awarded the WW Contemporary Art SOLO Award. Fitzgerald’s work has been shown at the The Douglas Hyde Gallery; Highlanes Gallery; Sculpture in Context; Claremorris Open Exhibition; Royal Hibernian Academy, all in Ireland; and WW Contemporary Art and Chisenhale Dance Space, both in London.

Carl Boutard

Carl Boutard’s artistic practice has been shaped longing for the outdoors. He observes and reflects on the relationship between human beings, nature and culture. His work is presented as installations that incorporate drawings, sculpture, video, text and performance. A recurring theme is that which is about to disappear, that which possesses aura and authenticity, both visually and from the point of view of content.

Carl Boutard lives and works in Berlin. He has completed public art commissions in Sweden and Germany. His work has been exhibited at Angelika Knäpper Gallery in Stockholm (2009, 2012), The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Iceland (2011), Lunds Konsthall (2010, 2011) and Artipelag in Stockholm (2014). He earned his BA at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and graduated with an MFA from the Malmö Art Academy. He also holds a BS in Architecture from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Past Resident
2015: Davidoff Art Initiative

Hulda Guzmán

Hulda Guzmán is a figurative painter that focuses on narrative, where space has a leading role, whether the scene takes place in a natural, open space, or indoors, having architecture and interior design be a main point of interest. The characters as well may show in large gatherings, or in more intimate scenarios. This said, ones will tend to have a more social opinion, and others will rather study human relations, on a one to one basis. It is important to Hulda to be able to entice, through a theatrical approach, an experiential interpretation, as to have the viewer really feel the mood, and identify with characters, and draw its own conclusions or questions on the situation.

Hulda Guzmán (born in Dominican Republic) studied fine arts in Altos de Chavón, School of Design, D.R., and completed her degree at Parsons, New York. She later studied muralism at the Facultad de Artes y Diseño of Mexico City. Recent solo shows include Lanza del Norte, Machete Galería de Arte, Mexico City; When not to Stop, Volta, New York; Portraits, Arco, Madrid; In Joy, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo. Group exhibitions include Under Construction, William Road Gallery, London; On Common Ground, Museo de la OEA, Washington, DC.