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18/6/2015

AIRspace 2015

Abrons Arts Center, New York

Curated by: Amanda Parmer

The Abrons' AIRspace program offers time-based residencies to emerging and mid-career artists and cross-disciplinary curators, providing free workspaces and opportunities to present/exhibit works-in-progress, curate exhibits and performances in the Abrons' galleries and theaters, and teach in school-based education programs.

Rochelle Goldberg
Born in Vancouver Canada, Rochelle lives and works in New York City. Institutional exhibitions include Descartes Daughter (2013) at the Swiss Institute, curated by Piper Marshall. Gallery solo presentations include The Links that Leak: Intraction #3, (2014) at Eli Ping Frances Perkins. She has also participated in group shows including Honey that Isn't Real (2014) at Bed-Stuy Love Affair, curated by Jared Madere; Slip (2014) at Mitchell-Innes and Nash; and Gymnasia, 4:00 AM(2014) at Cleopatra's. She has recently received her MFA in sculpture at Bard College.

Chelsea Knight
Born in Vermont and lives and works in New York. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Knight completed residencies at the Whitney Independent Study Program (2010) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2008), and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy (2007). She was a 2011-2012 Freund Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Knight was a 2010-2011 resident at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace program, a 2012 resident at Triangle Arts Association, and is a 2013-2014 resident at Smack Mellon. Solo exhibitions include: The St. Louis Art Museum, Abrons Art Center, New York, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, and Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago. Knight has exhibited and screened her work in group shows including Nouvelles Vagues at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Anti-Establishment at Bard CCS Hessel Museum, the Young Artists' Biennial, Bucharest, the 10th Annual Istanbul Biennial, Werkschauhalle Gallery, Leipzig, the Michelangelo Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, Italy, Harvard University, Art in General and the Kitchen

JR Larson
Attended the Boston Museum School and Rutgers University where he studied under Peter Voulkos and Peter Callas, both famous masters of clay. Well-versed in traditional firing methods as well as welding, woodworking, photography and cinematography Larson’s multimedia practice blends a unique approach to geometric abstraction and pattern with an archive of personal artifacts. Raised in the Cajun South, Larson has a personal connection to ritual festivities including Mardi Gras and the mysticism surrounding voodoo. Now embracing a multitude of cultures, Larson focuses on the creation of spirited objects; his artworks are heavy with the weight of transformative powers: woven, torn, worn- through, pierced and burned. Larson has exhibited solo projects at Roger Smith Hotel, NY, Tool Analysis, Active Space, Brooklyn, Piggy Back in Boston, Massachusetts. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions across the United States and Canada

Sean Micka
Was a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program, Studio Program from 2012-13 and 2013-2014. Micka received his BFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University (AIB) in 2002. Recent projects and exhibitions include Storytelling at Gallerie Charlotte Lund, Stockholm Sweden (2013); BOOK MACHINE, at Le Nouveau festival du Centre Pompidou, Paris France (2013); $72M Sale Shatters Warhol Record at Die Ausstellungsstrasse, Vienna, Austria (2011); and After Images, at Dvorak Sec Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (2009). Negotiations was published by Onestar Press, Paris France, in 2011

Jessica Segall
Multidisciplinary artist living in New York City. With a mix of humor and elbow grease, her work investigates the link between creativity and survival; engaging current cultural attitudes towards adaptation. Segall’s work has been exhibited at the 10th Havana Biennial, The National Gallery of Indonesia, The Queens Museum of Art, the Aldrich Museum, The Inside Out Museum in Bejing and The National Modern Art Gallery of Mongolia. She is the recipient of grants including Art Matters, the Leighton International Artist Exchange Program, an Arts and Science grant from Chicago University and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Jessica attended artist residencies at Skowhegan, The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Kuenstlerdorf Schoppingen, Art OMI, Bemis, SOMA, Triangle Arts and Socrates Sculpture Park. She is a graduate of Bard College and received her MFA from Columbia University

Image: Rochelle Goldberg, Access, 2012. Wood, wood stain, steel, Plexiglas, aluminum, chrome foil 6 x 46 x 35 inches

Opening: Fri Jun 19 6pm

Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street, New York
Tue - Sun 12pm to 6pm

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