Past Residents
Past Resident2015: Canada Council for the Arts
Elizabeth McIntosh
Elizabeth McIntosh continually re-envisions her work through shifts in her painterly approaches- shifts that pose new questions about the history of abstraction. In doing so, McIntosh unapologetically refuses to let herself, or her viewer, be fully at ease with her canvases. Enacting a kind of call-and-response, McIntosh’s paintings sit anachronistically between history and the present. Her work acknowledges specific structural inclinations in the history of painting. In reiterating and modulating found forms, McIntosh utilizes devices that render them strange and allow for reconsideration. Using loose structures as starting points for her investigations, she questions how improvisation can move the field of painting beyond the cliché of the tasteful resolution of compositions. McIntosh sets out, not so much to establish an iconic vocabulary, but to bring awareness to the complex processes and decisions involved in painting through formal invention. Ultimately, the results are aesthetically varied, generated by the elaboration of form.
Elizabeth McIntosh’s recent exhibitions include Szalon, University of Chicago, 2014; Fairy Bread, Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, 2014; Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse, Equinox, 2014; and Two Women at Model, Vancouver, 2014. She is the recipient the VIVA Award, Vancouver, 2013. Her works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Vancouver Art Gallery. McIntosh is currently based in Vancouver, where she is an Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University.
Elizabeth McIntosh, The Leaves, 2014, Oil on canvas, 75 × 85 in. (190.5 × 215.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Canada
Siggi Hofer
Slogans such as, “To Your Health”, “My Luck is in Hand”, and “My Father is an old Donkey” permeate Siggi Hofer’s practice. They are almost always clumsily written sentences in English that seem familiar, but remain strange. His “dancing words” veer away from pictorial order and abandon all rules of writing. In this way, Hofer as a non-writer defines writing in a new way.
Siggi Hofer (born 1970) graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 1998 and since then lives and works in Vienna. His artistic work was awarded with several grants and prizes including the Schindler Residency, Los Angeles, 2000; the Strabag Kunstforum Art Award for painting, 2006; the Msgr. Otto Mauer Award, 2009; the Paul Flora Award, 2010; and the Award for Art Practice of the City of Innsbruck (category: Sculpture), 2012.
Siggi Hofer, 1992, 2014, Oil pastel on paper, 40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
Residents from Austria
Past Resident2016: Toby Devan Lewis
Jacolby Satterwhite
Jacolby Satterwhite’s video works bring together 3-D animation, drawings, and live performance to construct utopian digital worlds. Within this uncharted digital architecture, Satterwhite explores personal history, identity and memory. Satterwhite often incorporates personal sources such as his mother’s drawings, which he hand-traces and imports into 3D animation programs to build lush, computer-generated landscapes. Into these digital realms he inserts multiple elaborately costumed avatars, whose kinetic gestures compose a sensual physical choreography. Fusing pop culture, subculture, and art history in his video work and performance, Satterwhite creates visually dazzling tableaux that reflect the changing spatial and bodily anxieties and desires of the digital world. Satterwhite’s computer-generated realms densely layered with proliferating drawings, objects and performances encompass animated narratives of personal memory and identity.
He has exhibited at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Studio Museum in Harlem, Bronx AIM Biennial, New Frontiers at the Sundance Film Festival, and is represented by OHWOW Gallery in Los Angeles. He has an MFA from University of Pennsylvania, has studied at Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture and Maryland Institute College of Arts, and has received awards and residencies from Louis Comfort Tifanny Grant, Art Matters, Headlands, Center for Arts, LMCC Workspace, and Provincetown Fine Arts Works Center, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Seattle Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem.
Events & Exhibitions
2020Solidarity: Support ISCP
May 1–May 31, 2020
Jacolby Satterwhite, How Lovely Is Me Being As I Am, 2014, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist.
