Past Residents
Past Resident2024: Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, Dennis Elliott Founder's Fund
Crystal Yayra Anthony
Crystal Yayra Anthony’s work explores alternate ways of being by conceptualizing the human body in its most natural and vulnerable state: nude. Her subjects are presented in ways that challenge preconceived notions of decorum or performative and acceptable expression. Anthony’s practice investigates her perception of what African society used to be and experiments with what it could be.
Crystal Yayra Anthony has exhibited work at Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Vienna; Dot Ateliers, Ghana; and PM/AM, London, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
Crystal Yayra Anthony: A Glimpse of Us
May 14–September 27, 2024
Crystal Yayra Anthony, Two Cedis and Friends. I & II, 2023, acrylic, oil pastels and oil paint on canvas, 811/8 × 601/4 in. (205.99 × 153.01 cm).
Crystal Yayra Anthony, Reflection, 2023, acrylic and oil on canvas, 591/16 × 471/4 in. (150.01 × 119.99 cm).
Crystal Yayra Anthony, Solace, 2023, acrylic and oil on canvas, 565/16 × 623/16 in. (143 × 157.99 cm).
Crystal Yayra Anthony, Glimmer of Hope, 2023, acrylic, oil pastels and oil paint on canvas, 67 × 48 in. (170.18 × 121.92 cm).
Crystal Yayra Anthony, Mr. Lover, 2022, oil and acrylic on canvas, 311/2 × 471/4 in. (80.01 × 119.99 cm).
Residents from Ghana
Past Resident2024: Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Residency
Cullen Washington Jr.
Cullen Washington Jr.’s abstract paintings convey the feeling of the divine in nature through matter and light, which he calls TerraChroma. Washington doesn’t depict atmosphere and land but rather the primary properties that make them exist, thus, the paintings’ titles “Primers” refer the underlying beginning. He constructs the painting surface with raw pigments, earth minerals, and acrylic, and he represents color as the quality of light with an atomized mixture of pigment and water.
Cullen Washington Jr. has exhibited work at The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; and Saatchi Gallery, London, among others.
Cullen Washington Jr., Primer 20, 2023, earth pigment, acrylic, carbon on paper, 47 × 31 in. (119.38 × 78.74 cm).
Cullen Washington Jr., Primer 19, 2023, earth pigment, acrylic, carbon on paper, 31 × 0 × 47 in. (78.74 × 0 × 119.38 cm).
Cullen Washington Jr., Primer 18, 2023, earth pigment, acrylic, carbon on paper, 47 × 31 in. (119.38 × 78.74 cm).
Cullen Washington Jr., Primer 17, 2023, earth pigment, acrylic, carbon on paper, 47 × 31 in. (119.38 × 78.74 cm).
Cullen Washington Jr., Primer 14, 2023, earth pigment, acrylic, carbon on paper, 47 × 31 in. (119.38 × 78.74 cm).
Residents from United States
Past Resident2023: ARTWORKS
Sofia Stevi
Sofia Stevi is an artist living and working in Athens. Her paintings depict flowing interpretations of materiality in a universe where dreams are a construct of everyday experiences, bodies are in flux, chance takes on permanent substance, and time and space collide.
Sofia Stevi has exhibited work at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom; Onassis Foundation Stegi, Greece; and The Benaki Museum, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2023 Fall Open Studios
November 10–November 11, 2023
Sofia Stevi, The Guardian, 2023, acrylics on cotton fabric, wall painting, dimensions variable.
Sofia Stevi, When we start to understand the world trilogy (The Letter, The Journey, When we start to understand the world), 2023, three double sided paintings, acrylic on cotton fabric, dimensions variable.
Sofia Stevi, Song without an ending, 2022, ink and actylic on cotton fabric, handpainted cotton and leatherette pillows, dimensions variable.
Sofia Stevi, Turning forty winks into a decade, 2017-2018, mixed media, dimensions variable.
Sofia Stevi, Spine Books (Skoliosis 004, Skoliosis 002, Kyphosis 001), 2009, mould-made cotton paper and thread, dimensions variable.
