Blaise Carrier-Chouinard
(Québec, Canada)
RESIDENCY: November 5 – December 30, 2009
EXHIBITION: November 20, 2009 – January 15, 2010
Carrier-Chouinard is more interested in the “singularization of foundational myths” than in things/objects themselves. He employs drawing, sculpture, installation and video to dissect histories, symbols and icons to address issues of dogma and cultural relevance. The results are a contribution to the mysticism and intrigue surrounding these archetypes. Read more ...
Jirí Suruvka
(Ostrava, Czech Republic)
RESIDENCY: August 11 – September 17, 2009
EXHIBITION: September 11 – October 23, 2009
Hailing from Ostrava in the Czech Republic, Jirí Suruvka joins SPACES for eight weeks as the 27th artist-in-residence to create new work in Northeast Ohio. Working amidst a post-industrial and post-socialist landscape, the artist creates sculpture, painting, and performance that offer irony, humor and an aggressive look at issues facing his community and the world at large. Read more ...
Efrat Klipshtien
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
RESIDENCY: March 30–June 8, 2009
EXHIBITION: May 15–July 17, 2009
While in the Israeli army, Efrat Klipshtien provided nature tours at various sites in the mountains. After her service, she began to implement more non-conventional tour tactics into her art practice as a performance artist. Drawing on her experiences as a guide, Klipshtien explores the dynamics of the viewer’s relationship with public spaces, objects, and positions of power in Red Winged Black Bird. Read more ...
Leonardo Marz
(Monterrey, Mexico)
RESIDENCY Dec 17, 2008–Feb 11, 2009
EXHIBITION Jan 30 –Apr 3, 2009
In a culture steeped in commercialism that originality often gets buried under remakes, cover songs and pre-fab models, what is the artist’s role? Marz confronts this sticky issue in three separate projects during his eight-week Cleveland residency. Each of Marz’s individual projects, falling under the umbrella of YENKA RIKETIK BOM, rely on the act of consuming someone else’s art to make a new product. Read more ...
(Prague, Czech Republic)
RESIDENCY Oct 16–Dec 12, 2008
EXHIBITION Nov 14, 2008–Jan 16, 2009
During his residency in Cleveland, Papcún created two multi-media installations that draw from his interest in places that have been lived in, visited, abandoned, or those that can be defined as transient spaces.
(Yellow Springs, OH)
RESIDENCY Jul–Sep, 2008
EXHIBITION Sep 5 –Oct 17, 2008
Born in Cuba, SPACES World Artist Juan-Sí González currently lives and works in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his wife and collaborator Paloma Dallas. In this project created during his residency at SPACES, González invites Dallas, born and raised in Ohio with Spanish as her second language, to further their investigation of the “boundaries that both join and divide individuals”.
Jiří Černický
(Prague, Czech Republic)
RESIDENCY Mar 16–Apr 27, 2008
EXHIBITION Apr 18–Jul 6, 2008
Jiří Černický is an installation artist working in Prague, Czech Republic. His work investigates how technology can be a desensitizing system and explores its physical and emotional effects. In his most recent videos, he employs what he calls “kinetic literature” and takes the pulse of our hidden thoughts.
Christa Donner
(Chicago, IL)
RESIDENCY Jul 16–Aug 17, 2007; Jan 2008
EXHIBITION Jan 18–Mar 7, 2008
During her residency at SPACES, Donner teamed up with biologist Andrew Yang to create an animated video and a series of large-scale drawings. Borrowing
from the reproductive models of varying organisms to produce new visions of human reproduction, she was
deeply influenced by current issues such as the availability of fertility drugs and the ever-growing
possibilities of human genetic modification. Donner expanded her project by interviewing more
than 30 local women on the topics of fertility and identity.
Iwona Zając
(Gdansk, Poland and London, England)
RESIDENCY Oct 2–Dec 8, 2007
EXHIBITION Nov 16, 2007–Jan 4, 2008
Iwona Zając's art practice explores issues of feminism and social concern. Formally trained in
painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, she began creating murals in 2000. One of her most
well-known projects involved a series of stencils on the outer walls of the Shipyards in Gdansk, where
the Solidarity movement started. The mural contained stories about the life and work of the shipyard
workers.
Libby Black
(Fort Worth, TX)
RESIDENCY Jul 16–30 and Aug 13–31, 2007
EXHIBITION Sep 7–Oct 19, 2007
Using paper, hot glue, and paint, Libby Black creates life-size
versions of luxury goods produced by Rolex, Neiman Marcus, Kate Spade, and Louis Vuitton, among
others. Black's drawings and paper sculptures are about surface, desire, and distraction.The artist
is compelled to recreate these high-end items because of her uneasiness and ambivalence about what
they mean as symbols of status, to her personally, and how they function in society.
Malgorzata Markiewicz
(Krakow, Poland)
RESIDENCY May 18–Jun 27, 2007
EXHIBITION Jun 22–Aug 23, 2007
SPACES World Artists
Program resident, Malgorzata Markiewicz (Krakow, Poland) uses textiles and everyday materials to
create innovative installations demonstrating socially engaged art practices.
These works examine issues ranging from cultural expectations of women to society’s
accountability to homeless people. As an emerging artist in Poland, Markiewicz has had multiple
exhibitions in Krakow, including an exhibition at the Goethe Institute. In 2004, she received
a one-year grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
(New York, NY)
RESIDENCY Sep 18, 2006–Apr 22, 2007
EXHIBITION Apr 20, 2007–Jun 8, 2007
Through his multidisciplinary work, artist Manuel Acevedo ( New York, NY) uses both interior and exterior urban landscapes to create dialogues about myth, identity and cultural understandings. Acevedo’s narrative imagery encourages a closer look at our basic humanity.
(Chicago, IL )
RESIDENCY 2005-2007
EXHIBTION Apr 20, 2007–Jun 8, 2007
superorg.net, a term inspired by the new scientific category of "superorganism," an organism made of interdependent and cooperating entities, encapsulates the idea that positive and lasting ecological changes must begin by considering the entire region from the standpoint of interdependent systems. Conceived by Frances Whitehead and Lisa Norton in response to the Towpath Trail Extension Initiative, superorg.net is an experimental model for public planning processes that includes artists as key members, proposing possible futures for the larger region and the Cuyahoga River Valley, it's economic, industrial, cultural and environmental vitality.
(Iasi, Romania)
RESIDENCY Oct 2–Nov 15, 2006
EXHIBITION Nov 17, 2006–Jan 5, 2007
Using video and photography, Acostioaei investigates the transition in Romanian identity from a traditionalist society to one that has been heavily impacted by consumerism and recently reintroduced in a global setting. Sometimes haunting, and always articulate, Acostioaei’s new work in Cleveland promises to provoke.
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
RESIDENCY Aug 4–Sep 14, 2006
EXHIBITION Sep 7–Oct 20, 2006
Emergency evacuations, fighting and attacks are simulated in Mishli's site-specific "shelters," which serve as stages for fictional actions she performs based on life in Israel. Her work requires improvisation and quick responses that parallel the often chaotic environment of Israel.
Pavel Kopriva
(Prague, Czech Republic)
RESIDENCY May 30-Jul 4, 2006
EXHIBITION Jun 21–Aug 4, 2006
In Kopriva's first exhibition in the United States, Pavel created Everybody needs the podium,
a site-specific installation that continues his interest in the multiple roles that people in
governmental power must, or choose to, participate. His multimedia installation will compare our
government's current expanding role as a world power, as it compares to Kopriva's experience in
Communist society.
(Warsaw, Poland)
RESIDENCY Oct 13-Nov 30, 2005
EXHIBITION Nov 18, 2005-Jan 6, 2006
In the Middle of the Way, November 18, 2005-January 6, 2006, follows the nomadic existence of artist Anna Konik as she travels to various cities and joins the journeys of different homeless people she meets on her way. To create the Cleveland segment of this continual work in progress, Konik first met with service agencies, such as the West Side Catholic Center and St. Malachi Center. She discussed urban issues with professors and artists, and spent time talking with people living on the streets. The final product is a city-wide experience. After witnessing the video-installation at SPACES that follows one homeless man in Cleveland, the public was invited to visit various other sites around the city where the Berlin, Warsaw, and Moscow segments of Inthe Middle of the Way were projected onto store-front windows.
Konik collaborated with Dagmara Gumkowska, an arts administrator-in-residence through CEC Artslink at Play House Square, in presenting past works and contemporary alternative theater in Poland. She also gave a presentation about Poland and art to students of the Urban Community School at St. Malachi Center. One of her previous films, Transparency, was shown at the Miller-Weitzel Gallery.
(San Francisco, CA)
May 5 – June 28, 2005
Arterial Change, June 23 – August 5, 2005, is Gertler’s interactive sculpture that explores the ways in which we are all implicated in the destruction of our internal and external environments. Her work demonstrates how we can direct the ways in which we affect our environment with simple mindfulness. During her residency, Renee gave a presentation on her past work at Max S. Hayes technical high school, and hosted a recipe exchange for the Hungarian community. Her gallery talk on Friday, June 24, included information on her past works, but focused on her current project and experiences. Poet and critic Gregory Crosby dove into Arterial Change for his critical essay on Gertler’s work.
Residency Mar 15-Apr 20, 2005
Exhibition Apr 15-Jun 10, 2005
Roman Dziadkiewicz (Krakow, Poland) created a project involving eleven episodes analogous to the story of Robinson Crusoe, in which he utilized experimental notions of painting and activism-as-art. His explorations will result in a single edition of his book, The Vegetarian Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe, or Stranger than Paradise was included in the exhibition Dissent: Political Voices, April 15—June 10, 2005. Dziadkiewicz met with members of the Alliance of Poles of America’s Cleveland chapter and attendees of the opening of the “Hungary-Poland exhibit” at the Polish American John Paul II Cultural Center. Many of these people then came to SPACES for Dziadkiewicz’s public presentation on his past work, and his exhibition opening. He gave a presentation on his Cleveland project, and discussed art theory with a performance art class at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Finally, he took part in the SPACES panel discussion, Cause and Effect: Current perspectives on political art and activism. The brochure documenting his residency features a critical essay by David Rubin, Curator of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.
(Buffalo, NY)
RESIDENCY Jan 3-Feb 13, 2005
EXHIBITION Jan 21-Mar 11, 2005
Julian Montague spent the first three weeks of his residency documenting and classifying Cleveland’s many stray shopping carts through photography. In The Stray Shopping Cart Project: Cleveland and Environs, January 21 – March 11, 2005, Montague explores the way in which science constructs meaning and imposes order through vocabulary. Having traveled by bicycle through snow and wind to find his cart specimens, Montague further explored Cleveland during the second half of his residency, via warmer means. He talked with a class at the Cleveland Institute of Art about collections as art and collecting art, and held a workshop for local middle school students in which they created classification systems for their own “unnatural” objects. New York Times art critic Benjamin Genocchio supplied the critical essay on Montague’s project.
(Budapest, Hungary)
RESIDENCY Oct 13-Nov 27, 2005|
EXHIBITION Nov 19, 2004-Jan 7, 2005
After arriving on the eve of the United States presidential elections, Sevic was given a quick introduction to the city and its culture. Observing the effects of urbanism in Cleveland, Sevic and a committed crew began working on the Free Shop project, a free-trade center with space for further exploration of the city’s issues. She converted this effort to become a virtual forum, using the internet as medium for the exchanges. In Fictionary, November 19-January 7, Sevic created an ironic video projection that questioned the fantasies and realities of international, multi-cultural relationships. Artist, critic, and painting faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Dan Tranberg looks at Sevic’s work in his brochure essay.
Sevic was joined for two weeks by Hungarian art critic Eszter Lazar, whose residency was co-hosted by SPACES and Angle magazine.
Katarina Wong
(New York, NY)
RESIDENCY Aug 1-Oct 17, 2004
EXHIBITION Aug 31-Oct 15, 2004
One of SPACELab’s first artists, Katarina Wong continued the tradition of innovation during
her residency and exhibition at SPACES. Wong’s installation, Still Center, August
31-October 15, 2004, involved a process of fingerprinting molded from dentist’s minty alganen
that she then transferred to wax. Fingerprints came from supporters of the Dalai Lama, and will
travel internationally in “The Missing Peace: The Dalai Lama Portrait Project”.
Wong’s residency took her all over Northeast Ohio connecting with various Buddhist
communities, and sharing her vision and experiences with the public. She also participated
in the panel discussion, “Out of the Lab: Artists Emerge”, which offered artists’
views on how to flourish after art school. Scott Sherer, Assistant Professor of Art History at
Kent State University, wrote a critical essay on Wong’s residency and work for the brochure.
(Santiago, Chile)
RESIDENCY Feb 9-Mar 20, 2004
EXHIBITION Mar 19-May 14, 2004
Carlos Montes de Oca took to the streets to find inspiration for his installation Urban Intervention, The Latinamerican Dream, March 19-May 14, 2004. With help from local graffiti artists and frequent visits to the local farmers market, Montes de Oca brought the underground art of Cleveland’s urban environs into the gallery space. During his residency, he taught art-as-process with at-risk youth at a local Hispanic after-school program, and worked with artists with physical and mental disabilities at Passion Works Studio in Athens, Ohio. On this, his first visit to the United States, Montes de Oca also had a chance to visit New York, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, where he paid homage to his great inspiritor, Marcel Duchamp. Tricky as his predecessor’s work, Montes de Oca’s is explained with an interview by international curator and critic Edward Shaw in the SPACES brochure.
(Brooklyn, NY)
RESIDENCY Nov 24, 2003-Feb 1, 2004
EXHIBITION Jan 9-Feb 20, 2004
Cullinane paid two visits to Northeast Ohio, taking a break for time with family during the holidays. After scouring the sign shops and abundant industrial supply stock of Cleveland, he created four separate pieces for his multi-media installation, Stadium, on view Jan 9–Feb 20, 2004. In addition to presenting a lecture at SPACES to a diverse audience, Cullinane discussed his life as an artist with art students at Max S. Hayes Vocational, a Cleveland Public High School. Later these students helped him with the monumental task of creating a wall piece out of tens of thousands of metal pushpins. Stadium suggests an inherent violence in America’s sports-culture, a confusion of work, play, and war. The Guggenheim Museum’s associate curator Susan Cross (NYC) discusses Cullinane’s new work in the brochure published by SPACES.
Robo Kocan
(Poprad, Slovakia)
RESIDENCY Aug 8-Sep 22, 2003
RESIDENCY Sep 12-Oct 24, 2003
Photographs by Robo Kocan were included in The View From Here: Recent Pictures from
Central Europe and the American Midwest Sep 12 – Oct 24, 2003. Kocan came to
Northeast Ohio for six weeks and made a new series of twelve hand-colored black & white photographs called Stories By Night-Light, in which he created dream-like
narratives by projecting shadows on the wall of his room in Cleveland. During his residency
Kocan was given a private bicycle tour of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which has a
collaborative exchange with Slovakia through the Cleveland-Bratislava Sister Parks project.
Kocan later presented public illustrated talks at The Slovak Institute in Cleveland and at
the Cleveland-Bratislava Sister Cities meeting at John Carroll University. Kocan also
participated in a Gallery Walk-Through of The View From Here , and discussed his
new work with students from Cleveland State University. Art in America corresponding editor Susan Snodgrass (Chicago) contributed the essay on Kocan’s
exhibition for the SPACES brochure. After closing at SPACES, Kocan’s photographs
traveled to Washington, DC, for a special exhibition at the Embassy of Slovakia.
(New York, NY)
RESIDENCY Jan 6-May 11, 2003
EXHIBITION May 9-Jun 20, 2003
Cogswell divided her residency into three, two-week segments to extend her visit to include multiple seasons. She first researched the Cuyahoga River and its connections to diverse Cleveland communities, talked about water and drew with children from Head Start and the Urban Community School, and invited them to visit her studio in May. Cogswell was given a rare private tour of steel-making facilities and interviewed former steel workers, riverboat captains, and members of an environmental group in Akron during her second trip. Audio and video documentation were part of Cogswell's multimedia installation Cuyahoga Fugues, presented as part of Elements: Matter, Body, Mind and Spirit, May 9-June 20, 2003. She also presented an illustrated talk on her residency. Art in America critic Eleanor Heartney (NYC) has written the essay on Cogswell's installation for the SPACES brochure.
Vladimir Merta
(Prague, Czech Republic)
RESIDENCY Jan 25-Mar 10, 2003
EXHIBITION Feb 28-Apr 11, 2003
Merta created an installation entitled Watching Spirit, based on his experiences
in Cleveland and the role of mass media in our current political climate. He gave a lecture
about his work in the context of the recent political changes in the Czech Republic to
members of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, held Open Studio Days, and
presented slides of his students’ work from the Technical University of Brno to art
students from Kent State University. Art Historian and critic David Moos, former curator
of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Birmington Museum of Art (AL), and now curator of
Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, discusses Merta's installation in the
SPACES brochure about his residency.
Carlos Navarrete
(Santiago, Chile)
RESIDENCY Aug 11-Sep 20, 2002
EXHIBITION Sep 13-Oct 25, 2002
Navarrete created work that explored the links between
identity and geography. He documented his time in Cleveland through photography,
collected objects and diagrams, and combined them to create the large-scale installation Documents of Ephemeral Actions and Other Works. He met with many local artists
and presented a gallery talk about his work. He spent two days working with Latino high
school art students from El Barrio’s program for “at risk” adolescents.
At a public community forum he discussed his experiences with international residencies
and how exposure to other cultures contributes to the artmaking process. Critic and former
editor of The New Art Examiner Kathryn Hixson (Chicago, IL) wrote the SPACES brochure
essay on Navarrete's work.
