Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel
Sara Ouhaddou
Artistic trends – in architecture and design – evolve in a globalized world exposed to a broad spectrum of influences. Sara Ouhaddou is interested in specific local circumstances, determined by cultural, historical and geographical conditions. Her project MadinMedin looks at the transformation of local crafts in Morocco, and re-conceptualizes the relationship between local and cultural identity within a globalized context. Alongside this, the project considers the survival of traditional crafts in modern Moroccan society.
Sara Ouhaddou (born Morocco) graduated from the Ecole Olivier de Serres in Paris. Her research looks at the diverse problems facing craftsmen now in Morocco including the difficulties in the generational transmission of knowledge, and the need to put in place guilds in a context where mass tourism has gradually confined exceptional craftsmen to the realization of objects without quality.
Sara Ouhaddou, Bou-Oumlil, 2015, White wool and fabric, 59 × 78 in. (149.86 × 198.12 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Nicole Franchy
Nicole Franchy’s artistic practice is based on – and embedded in – the increasing mobility of people, objects and ideas. Using images related to history, memory and travel, she meticulously composes collages, installations and video installations that investigate how societies are shaped by physical and virtual movements on both a global and a local scale. Moving between archival and fictive representations, her work confronts parallel realities and explores the liminal space of boundaries and frontiers. As such, it projects associative landscapes and impossible panoramas that propose a new geography; one that is critical and that challenges us to re-map our own coordinates.
Nicole Franchy (born 1977, Lima, Peru) moved to Belgium in 2010 where she graduated from Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Belgium. Franchy was selected for the EFG-ArtNexus Latina America Art Award (2014). Her solo exhibitions include Boundary – Lugar Desconocido, Galería El Ojo Ajeno, Lima (2013); and Satellite Cities, Galeria Vertice, Lima (2008). Selected group exhibitions include: Europa, ArteBa, Buenos Aires (2015); Theorem, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey (2015); Nothing to Hide, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, New York (2015); Reconstrucciones, Project Rooms Art Lima, Lima (2014); Tierra de Nadie, Galería Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Lima (2014); Suspension, Artistdock, Berlin (2013); as well as the traveling exhibition Where Do We Migrate To?: Värmland’s Museum, Karlstad, Sweden (2015); The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York (2012); and Center For Art Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore (2011).
Nicole Franchy, Black Wasser, 2015, Canvas collage, 161 × 177 in. (408.94 × 449.58 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Ground Floor Residents
Maya Jeffereis
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2026
Keli Safia Maksud
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Council District 34, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2024
Hong Seon Jang
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Alice and Lawrence Weiner, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Council District 34, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, Hartfield Foundation, Danna and Ed Ruscha, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
2026
Past Resident2015: Creative Australia
Tony Albert
Tony Albert’s art practice interrogates contemporary legacies of colonialism in a way that prompts the audience to contemplate elemental aspects of the human condition. Weaving together text appropriated from popular music, film, fiction, and art history, along with clichéd images of extraterrestrials, photographs of his family in Lucha Libre, and an immense collection of “Aboriginalia” (a term the artist coined to describe kitschy objects and images that feature naive portrayals of Aboriginality), the artist presents a tapestry of ideas that makes us question the flimsy line that inscribes and ascribes difference.
Albert has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Musée d’Aquitaine, France; Singapore Art Museum; National Museum of China; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He was also included in the 10th Biennial of Havana, and the 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. In 2014 he won the Basil Sellers Art Prize and the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. He is well represented in collections within Australia, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Australian War Memorial, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of Western Australia and QAGGOMA. This year he unveiled a major new monument in Sydney’s Hyde Park dedicated to Australia’s Indigenous military service men and women.
Events & Exhibitions
Salon: Tony Albert and Aleksander Komarov
November 24, 2015
Tony Albert, What Are We Fighting For, Oil. Courtesy of the artist.
