Past Residents
Past Resident2011: Joan Mitchell Foundation
Peter Gregorio
Peter Gregorio works in large-scale painting, print, video, and installation, creating pieces and experiences that remix given architecture with new cultural landscapes and contemporary ideas in cosmology. In working to conceptualize information theory and connect forms of interdisciplinary knowledge through artistic practice, Gregorio uses conversations with writers, filmmakers, and professors as research for his most recent and ongoing body of work. ‘As we approach the merger of human cognition and technology, we near the epoch of a great paradigm shift.’ His work considers positing this merger in the context of visual art, from both personal and universal vantage points. Gregorio’s recent project SIN (Singularity Is Near) refers to the scientific concept of “The Singularity” — the point when technology and human intelligence merge — where technologically designed intelligence surpasses the biological. With painting, he collapses three-dimensional space into a flattened reticle of vaguely navigable territory, referencing computer manipulation and theories in cosmology to map the nuances of a dystopian landscape.
Peter Gregorio currently lives and works in New York, New York. He received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York and a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. His work has been the subject of several national and international exhibitions including The CUE Art Foundation, Participant Inc., Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Max Protetch, Goff + Rosenthal, and Repetti Gallery in New York; Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Boots Contemporary Art Space, Saint Louis, MO; and Unimedia Modern, Genova, Italy. His videos have been screened as part of Archetime at the Elizabeth Foundation, New York; Hotch Potch, in Oslo, Norway and London, UK; and at the Northampton Film Festival, Northampton, MA. He is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the Paula Rhodes Award, and grants awarded through the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Northampton Arts Council, and the University of Massachusetts Arts Council. Gregorio is also involved as an independent curator of interdisciplinary projects that have been exhibited throughout New England and New York, previously as Director of the La Lutta Project Space in Brooklyn, and most recently as the Founder and Editor of VECTOR Artist’s Journal.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Peter Gregorio and Anna K.E
March 8, 2011
Peter Gregorio, A Congruence Of Geodesics With Arrow Of Time, 2008, Oil, acrylic and reflective paint on canvas and floor, 96 x 96 and 120 x 84 in. Courtesy of artist.
Peter Gregorio, Human / Post Human, 2010, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 48, 96 x 96, 96 x 48 in.
Peter Gregorio, SIN, 2009, Video, spray paint, green screen, and projection, 2:20 min. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2010: ATI - The Arts and Theatre Institute
Jakub Hosek
Jakub Hosek draws upon a wide range of influences to construct his paintings. Made using acrylic paint applied meticulously onto the canvas though hand-cut masking tape stencils, Hosek’s paintings have been described as being illustrative, appearing to describe a complex narrative in a single comic-strip-like frame. It is precisely this spirit of post-teenage Pop which defines Hosek’s strong colors. The texts incorporated within his paintings are drawn predominantly from the contemporary post and punk-rock music that he listens to.
Born 1979 in Prague, Jakub Hosek lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.
Jakub Hosek, You Fool, Your House Is On A Frozen Lake, 2008, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 56 × 55 × 8 in. (142.24 × 139.7 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jakub Hosek, A Cancer In The Smallest Bones, 2008, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 49 × 45 × 8 in. (124.46 × 114.3 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jakub Hosek, Untitled, 2007, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 31 × 30 × 8 in. (78.74 × 76.2 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Jakub Hosek, Wig Master, 2007, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 38 × 38 in. (96.52 × 96.52 cm).
Jakub Hosek, Buzz Saw, 2007, Cut painting and acrylic on canvas, 79 × 77 × 3 in. (200.66 × 195.58 × 7.62 cm).
Residents from Czech Republic
Past Resident2011: OCA - Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Eline Mugaas
Eline Mugaas’s work brings forth a web of connections between different images that combine the private and subjective with topographic depictions of urban environments and architecture. She has been investigating the distance between the intention of architecture and the reality of living within. This has been an ongoing investigation, a series of findings and experiences. Her latest work consists of interior motifs from the artist’s own home, which has proven to be a good point of departure for investigating the possible coexistence of formal composition and accidental information. Mugaas says about her latest photographs: ‘I wanted to investigate the formal aspects of my work and at the same time not lose the feature I love the most about photography, its place as a (incidental) sloppy document. All the information that sneaks in, that later oozes out and can’t be stopped and that gives you a voyeur’s pleasure by sharing its details. The little things that intrigue and bother the eye.’
Eline Mugaas (born 1969) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She graduated from The Cooper Union, New York, New York. In recent years her exhibition activity includes the solo show Some Cities at the Bergen Kunsthall, Norway. Her first film work Skin Flick was exhibited in Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway. In 2009, Mugaas started the zine Album with Elise Storsveen, wich was launched at the Oslo venue Project 0047. Its three issues to date were also presented at Printed Matter in New York. The same year she curated the exhibition The Camera Show at the Photographers Gallery in Oslo.
Eline Mugaas, Half In Shadow, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Eline Mugaas, A Flat Depiction Of Life, 2007, C-print, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.
Eline Mugaas, Mountain Reflected, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Eline Mugaas, Skin Flick, 2008, HD video, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Galleri Riis, Norway.
Eline Mugaas, Trapezoid, 2010, C-print, 33 × 40 in. (83.82 × 101.6 cm).
