THE 2012 JURIED RESIDENCY

Rob Doane   sculptor, artist

“Silence was the first thing I noticed sitting at the desk, cantilevered like a diving board over the pond, which I could not seem to look away from. The bright May sunshine was irresistible and soon my toes felt the cool, cold water of the kettle pond. Being connected to nature is essential to my being and I have never experienced a permanent structure more integrated into the landscape than the Kugel-Gips house. Through the glass walls I created vignettes as fast as I could draw them and took time each day to get lost in the trails of the surrounding woods. At the end of my time in the house, I realized that, as the modernists believed, through my work the possibility to affect change in others and the world exists.”

Rob Doane is an artist living and working in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Energized by the diverse landscape and resplendent light of outer Cape Cod, his abstract paintings, sculpture, and videos engage in a relational dialog between the natural world and the built environment. Rob’s field research, among the ocean, dunes, beaches, ponds, and woods of Wellfleet, informs his vibrant color palette. Vast swaths of rich blues and reds are tempered with steely blue grey and charcoal burnishing.

Ed Ford   architect, author, educator

Edward Ford is an architect and the author of The Details of Modern Architecture (MIT, 1990, German edition: Birkhauser, 1994, Japanese Edition: Maruzen, 2000) and The Details of Modern Architecture, Volume 2 (MIT, 1996, Japanese Edition: Maruzen, 2000). He is currently a Vincent and Eleanor Shea Professor at the University of Virginia.

“It is the end of my third day at the Kugel-Gips house. The sun has come out after two days of rain. In some ways the house is just as enjoyable without the full sun. The pond is more enigmatic in the fog. As much as anything, I enjoy the acoustics of the house. The birds start in just after dawn in an encyclopedia of birdcalls. This evening something was going on with the Mourning Doves. I could not count how many were singing around the house, and despite the melancholy nature of the call that gives the bird its name, I suspect romance was in the air. By dark the birds are quieter, and the frogs take over. Glen Murcutt, the great Australian architect once told me that in a good house you could always tell if it was raining outside. If this is true, the Kugel-Gips house is a great one for you are never much disconnected for the outdoors. It seems at one with the place it is in.”

Suzan Frecon   artist

Frecon has exhibited widely in the United States and internationally. In 2008, her work was the subject of a major solo exhibition, form, color, illumination: Suzan Frecon painting, at The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, which traveled to the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland. She has participated in several recent group exhibitions, including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California (2011 and 2009); Boston University Art Gallery (2010); and the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Works by the artist are represented in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She lives and works in New York.
While here, Susan worked on preparatory drawings for one of her subsequent paintings.

For more information on her work go to:
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/suzan-frecon/

David Reinfurt   graphic designer, teacher

David Reinfurt is an independent graphic designer and writer in New York City. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993 and received an MFA from Yale University in 1999. On the first business day of 2000, David formed O-R-G inc., a flexible graphic design practice composed of a constantly shifting network of collaborators. Together with graphic designer Stuart Bailey, David established Dexter Sinister in 2006 — a workshop in the basement at 38 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side in New York City. The workshop is intended to model a Just-In-Time economy of print production, running counter to the contemporary assembly-line realities of large-scale publishing. This involves avoiding waste by working on-demand, utilizing local cheap machinery, considering alternate distribution strategies, and collapsing distinctions of editing, design, production, and distribution into one efficient activity. Dexter Sinister published the semi-annual arts magazine, Dot Dot Dot from 2006-2011. David recently launched a new umbrella project called The Serving Library with Stuart Bailey and Angie Keefer. David was 2010 United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow in Architecture and Design and currently teaches at Princeton University.

David wrote that his residency: “led directly to curating an exhibition currently on view at Columbia University Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery. the show, Messages and Means: Muriel Cooper at MIT travels to MIT in the fall and then on to London in Spring 2015. it will also form the basis of a book of the same name I am publishing with MIT Press in 2016.”

A link to the show:
http://messagesandmeans.com/

More of his work:
http://www.o-r-g.com
http://www.dextersinister.org
http://www.servinglibrary.org

Barbara Hammer   film maker, artist

Barbara Hammer is a visual artist working primarily in film and video. She has made over 80 moving image works in a career that spans 40 years. She is considered a pioneer of queer cinema. In 2013 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for a film Waking Up Together on the poet Elizabeth Bishop. She was awarded the same year a Marie Walsh Sharpe artist studio to work on performance projection.

Hammer was honored with a month-long retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City from September 11-October 13, 2010. In February 2012 she had a month-long retrospective at The Tate Modern in London followed by retrospectives in Paris at Jeu de Paume in June 2012 and the Toronto International Film Festival in October 2013.

Her work is represented by the gallery Koch Oberhuber Woolfe in Berlin, Germany where her first solo exhibition ran from February 11-April 17, 2011, and her third exhibition of collages and drawings in the fall of 2014.

For more information on her work go to:
http://barbarahammer.com/about/bio/