Past Residents
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.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2015: Joan Mitchell Foundation
Aaron Collier
Paint has the binary ability to summon and refuse, reveal and conceal, beautify and debase. Aaron Collier’s work attempts to revel in these manifold offerings, for in so doing, the resulting imagery is consonant with our tangled interaction with the world. Routine are encounters marked by disclosure and obstruction; we happen upon phenomena that we are seemingly able to know, grasp, and understand along with those we fundamentally cannot. Paint fittingly pictures this paradox, for painting itself is an in-between act, a simultaneous doing and undoing. Collier’s paintings, drawing and collage, thus traffic more in fragment than in chronicle. Images that indefinitely “suggest” allow him to situate the viewer and himself as deferential participants, adventuring with the image.
Aaron Collier lives in New Orleans where is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University. Solo exhibitions include Cole Pratt Gallery and Staple Goods, an artist cooperative in the St. Claude Avenue Arts District. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and has been featured in New American Paintings. Collier’s paintings are represented in collections such as the Boston Medical Center, Iberia Bank and New Orleans Museum of Art. He has participated in residencies at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, Ragdale Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Aaron Collier, Complications in the Pattern, 2012, Oil on canvas, 44 × 40 in. (111.76 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist.
