Past Residents
Past Resident2012: Creative Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey
Through performance drawing, Kellie O’Dempsey explores liminal space and movement as narrative. With drawing as her dialogue, O’Dempsey spontaneously translates the immediacy of experience into line, form and gesture with charcoal and ink and more recently an electronic drawing device. Often working in collaboration with musicians, performers and artists, her process investigates the interconnected experience of human engagement. Via improvisation, elements of performance are translated into drawn works as an immediate means of response. Her work is currently focused on the synthesis of analogue and digital drawing.
Kellie O’Dempsey has developed installations in a vast array of spaces including: in the rehearsal studios of a ballet company (Queensland Ballet 2003), rock festivals, in The Barbican Theatre-London (2005) to commuters in subway during rush hour in Melbourne (2007). Performances and residencies include: Soundlabs, Italy, 2005-2006; Festival Internationale de Benicassim, Spain, 2005-2006; M on The Bund, Shanghai, 2009-2010; Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Art, 2011; Elephant Rock cliff face – BLEACH 2012; Live collaborative performance with Michael Dick, Brian Richie and the Tasmanian Improvisers Orchestra at MONA FOMA, Hobart, 2012, The 18th Biennale of Sydney and upcoming at Draw International, France, 2013.
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mona Foma, 2012, Live performance paper, ink, paint, digital project, and orchestra. Courtesy of the artist.
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mona Foma, 2012, Live performance paper, ink, paint, digital project, and orchestra. Courtesy of the artist.
Kellie O'Dempsey, Moving Lines, 2011, Live performance paper, ink, tagtool, and digital projector. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2012: Artadia
Mads Lynnerup
Mads Lynnerup’s work takes place outside of the studio and involves a social engagement or interactions with audience directly and indirectly. Through performance, video, and installation he explores and experiments with the definition of what art might be, and how art can reach beyond the four walls of a gallery or museum.
Mads Lynnerup was born in Copenhagen in 1976 and lives and works in Brooklyn. He recently received his MFA from Columbia University. Lynnerup has shown his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; P.S. 1, New York; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. Lynnerup’s work is in numerous public collections, including the Blanton Museum of Art; Miami Art Museum; Orange County Museum of Art and the San Jose Museum of Modern Art.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Michael Arcega and Mads Lynnerup
November 20, 2012
Mads Lynnerup, Astrobright, 2012, HD video. Courtesy of the artist.
Mads Lynnerup, Fix It, 2009, Outdoor sculpture. Courtesy of the artist and Socrates Sculpture Park.
Mads Lynnerup, Flip Flop Fllor, 2010, Installation. Courtesy of the artist and John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin.
Mads Lynnerup, Help is on the Way, 2011, Installation. Courtesy of the artist and Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin.
Mads Lynnerup, Promise the Moon, 2011, Silk-screen print. Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from United States
Past Resident2013: Velkoobchod Štěpán2001: Studio K.F.A.
Dita Stepanova
Dita Stepanova’s work is a diary with hidden stories behind. Reflections on a vision of the future that draw hazy lines between fiction and reality. Each piece creates an open space for another possible story. However, the overall concept and chosen topics reflect the present day: fashion, icons, emblems, magazines, obsessions, and missed communications.
Human relations, loneliness, oddities, dreams…like a distant echo from ancient mural paintings. Each creates hazy lines between fiction and reality. Always creating an open space for another possible story and dealing with the ‘moment.’ The moment is an extension of time; reality stretches from the past to the present in a never-ending emotion. It is something that nobody can describe with words; the moment without beginning and without end.
Dita Stepanova, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Dita Stepanova, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Dita Stepanova, Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
Dita Stepanova, Coal on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
