Past Residents
Past Resident2014: Artadia
Eileen Maxson
Eileen Maxson is an interdisciplinary artist working at the confluence of video, performance and installation. Heavy hearted and humorous, Maxson’s works lament the vanishing borders between imagination and consumer coercion, technology and true personality. Essentially, each work represents a failed exorcism of uninvited influences and too much information. With that in mind, Maxson reconstitutes her own identity with cultural detritus, material and fleeting, into counter-spells of memory, merchandise and persona.
Eileen Maxson (born 1980) is based in New York and the Netherlands where she studied at De Ateliers until 2010. Her works have been screened and exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Art in General, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; testsite, Austin; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica; and Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster among others. Lost Broadcasts, a DVD compilation of Eileen’s videos, was released by Aurora Picture Show in conjunction with Microcinema International in 2008. Eileen received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 2008 and a BFA from University of Houston in 2002. She was the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize.
Eileen Maxson, A Random Lottery of Meaningless Tragedies and a Series of Near Escapes, 2012, Installation, Dimensions variable.
Eileen Maxson, Clearance 1993, 2010, Artist book (edition of 13), 13 × 19 in. (33.02 × 48.26 cm).
Eileen Maxson, Date with Deceit, 2009, Video still, 4:22 min.
Eileen Maxson, Signal to Noise, 2012, Installation, Dimensions variable.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2013: Foundation for a Civil Society
Dina Rončević
Two opposing disciplines inhabit Dina Rončević’s practice: textile work and mechanics. She jumps from warm studio lights and precise handwork, in areas like puppet animation or needlework, to cold exteriors where she moderates a situation in which she highlights her interest in female mechanics of different ages. Her initial interest in socially-constructed gender identities, is transforming into questioning models of education and what kind of role art can play in
the process of learning.
Dina Rončević graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb, completing an interdisciplinary work in which she was trained to become a car mechanic. She is a participant in the MFA program at the School of Missing Studies, Art and Learning, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. She has worked on several puppet animation films as the head animator, and since 2012, has made several performances in which she constructed and deconstructed cars and vehicles within a group of women. Her solo exhibitions have been shown in Croatia, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and festivals across Europe and in Mexico.
Dina Rončević, Four Stroke, 2011, Assemblage and hand embroidery, 311/2 × 235/8 in. (80.01 × 60.01 cm).
Dina Rončević, The Car, 2012, Interactive performance.
Dina Rončević, Daughter-in-law From Hell, 2013, Interactive performance.
Dina Rončević, Hot, Hot Burning Water, 2013, Interactive performance.
Dina Rončević, Grannies, 2012, Puppet animated teaser, 3:20 min.
Past Resident2013: ACC - Asian Cultural Council
Samuel Penaso
Samuel Penaso’s works are a mix of his experiments in media including painting, performance, sculpture, installation and video among others. Penaso is influenced by his dichotomy of life experiences as a child growing up in the country and as an adult living in the city. Experiences, emotions and stories about him and others are widely expressed in his works, most notably in his portraits. His work generates waves of nostalgia, weaving the purity of childhood experiences together with his present ideologies.
Penaso is a visual and performance artist from Guindulman, Bohol. He received a BFA at the Technological University of the Philippines. He has held solo exhibitions in Japan, Thailand, Austria, Germany, Singapore, among others. He represented the Philippines in the Nippon International Performance Art Festival in both 2005 and 2011 and has participated in the the Asian International Art Exhibition, Ayala Museum, Manila; ArTriangle, Malaysia and Young Art Philippines, Luxembourg. He is one of the core members of Tupada Action and Media Art (TAMA) a group of performance artists and an active member of the Art Association of Philippines (AAP).
Samuel Penaso, Constant Reinvention, Steel, 60 × 72 in. (152.4 × 182.88 cm).
Samuel Penaso, Black Rain, Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 48 in. (91.44 × 121.92 cm).
Samuel Penaso, Stripewalker Project, 2009.
Samuel Penaso, Text Country, Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 48 in. (121.92 × 121.92 cm).
Samuel Penaso, Time Machine, Acrylic on canvas, 48.
