Saturday, Jun 15, 2024

(58) Open Studios & Readings

About

Join us as we celebrate the close of the most recent session of our Fellowship Program with our session 58 fellows, Elina Alter, Robin Crookall, Ania Freer, Simon Han, and Huidi Xiang. Studios will be open from 5 to 7 p.m., with readings at 6 p.m. Wood-fired pizza and beer will be served throughout!

Artists

Bio

Ania Freer is an award winning Australian-Jamaican artist, filmmaker, cultural researcher, and curator based between New York City and Jamaica. Working in installation, film and curating, Ania uses oral histories to explore identity through themes of resistance, labor, folklore, craft traditions, race and class. Her films work to disrupt imperialist narratives and recenter marginalized voices. Ania’s video installations have been exhibited at the National Gallery of Jamaica and her short film “Strictly Two Wheel,” won Best Documentary Short at Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. She has received fellowships from the Caribbean Film Academy, New Local Space Kingston and scholarships from the American Australian Association Arts Fund. She has participated in residencies at Art Omi, Ox-Bow and Artist in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE). Her work has been featured in Jamaica Journal, Forgotten Lands and DIZZY Magazine. Ania’s documentary series Real Talk, an intimate collection of video portraits from across Jamaica, are housed at the Black Film Centre and Archive: Indiana University Bloomington. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Film Theory from the University of Sydney.

Website

https://www.goatcurrygallery.org/about

Bio

Simon Han is the author of the novel Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead), which was named a best book of the year by TIME, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, and Texas Monthly. His short stories and essays have been published in The Atlantic, Aperture, Virginia Quarterly Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. He's received residency fellowships from MacDowell, Willapa Bay-AiR, Jentel, the Toji Cultural Center, and Norton Island. He lives in Medford, MA and teaches at Tufts University.

Website

http://simonhan.com

Bio

Elina Alter is a writer, translator, and editor based in New York. Her translations from Russian include Alla Gorbunova's It's the End of the World, My Love, and Oksana Vasyakina's Wound, as well as an upcoming collection by Gorbunova. She edits Circumference, a magazine of translation.

Website

https://wordswithoutborders.org/contributors/view/elina-alter/

Bio

Huidi Xiang is a sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University (2021) and a BA in Architecture and Studio Art from Rice University (2018). In her practice, Huidi reimagines and recreates symbols and scenarios of popular media to propose alternative forms and narratives to late capitalism. Huidi’s works have been exhibited internationally by X Museum Triennial (Beijing, China), OCAT Biennale (Shenzhen, China), YveYANG Gallery (New York, NY, USA), Tutu Gallery (Brooklyn, NY, USA), KAJE (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Contemporary Calgary (Calgary, Canada), and more. Huidi has also participated in numerous artist residencies, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM fellowship, the NARS Foundation International Residency Program, the ACRE Residency Program, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

Website

https://xianghuidi.com

Bio

Robin Crookall’s work is a blend of sculpture and photography. With a collage of elements, she creates scenes consisting of part fact and part aspect, resulting in uncanny images of small scale architecture models. Crookall received her MFA from New York University and completed her BFA at the University of Washington. Crookall was a 2021 finalist in The Print Center’s, 95th Annual International Competition. In April 2021 she had a solo exhibition at Real Art Ways in Hartford CT. Fall 2020 she completed a residency and solo exhibition at Penumbra Foundation in New York City. Crookall is a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in photography from The New York Foundation for the Arts. Crookall has participated in group exhibitions at Field Projects in New York, Candela Gallery in Virginia, Art Basel in Miami, Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Gallery 4Culture in Seattle, and Friesen Gallery in Seattle. Publications featuring her work include Artsin Square (2022), Musée Magazine (2021), Vast Magazine (2021), Real Art Ways Zine (2021), Indiefoto (2016), and The Seattle Times (2012). Crookall currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is preparing for a 2024 residency at Light Works in Syracuse, NY, and an exhibition at Catskills Art Space in Livingston Manor, NY.

Website

http://www.robincrookall.com/

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