Meet Over Lunch Online: Francesca Bellini Joseph
Please join RU Thursday, September 29 at 1pm for Meet Over Lunch with Francesca Bellini Joseph Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 854 7912 3779 Passcode: 240976 I’m Francesca Bellini Joseph, and I specialize in online learning. My area of interest is teaching about the market principles and dynamics of the art world. I went to […]
Thinking Food Futures
In these times of true uncertainty, engaging with RU’s current Food Futures residents Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri, Esra Durukan, Yoko Inoue, Siri Lee, Rosa Nussbaum, Andrew Vigil-Emerson, and Allie Wist, has been a hugely inspiring reminder of the power of art and creativity in thinking through some of the challenges brought on by the pandemic. The pressing issues of food justice and […]
The 2020 NYC Artist Salon-Style Hang
The 2020 NYC Artist Residency Program launched April 13 on Zoom. The artists were incredibly gracious to embark on this adventure, which ended up taking place entirely online. During the three-month residency, Carlos Rosales-Silva, Christopher Udemezue, Elizabeth Moran and Ziyang Wu conducted virtual studio visits with 12 guest curator/critics, made virtual artist presentations (available on RU’s […]
Meet Over Lunch Online: 50 Women Project
Please join RU Thursday, July 2 at 1pm for Talk Over Lunch: 50 Women Project with Hall W. Rockefeller I launched the 50 Women Project during quarantine, at a loss for what to write about when faced with the sudden absence of gallery shows, the bread and butter of my writing practice. In my brainstorming […]
Ziyang Wu: A Woman with Technology
Born and raised in Xuzhou, China, Ziyang Wu studied at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in Italy, and the Rhode Island school of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to New York City in 2018 after several years of teaching at Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minnesota. Wu’s practice is centered […]
Christopher Udemezue Presents
Christopher Udemezue walks us through his work drawing on his Jamaican heritage and with a focus on the nuanced relationship of Queer identity, gender and race as complicated by the legacies of colonialism in the Caribbean. With references ranging from Tapatapa Dancehall music to Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Death of Murat, Udemezue’s practice is […]
Carlos Rosales-Silva: Borderland
Carlos Rosales-Silva focuses on the site-specific installation Borderland which was completed and presented at the 2020 Spring/Break Art Show in the days before the NYC lockdown began. Named after the neighborhood and street where he grew up in El Paso, Texas, the project exists between painting, sculpture and installation, drawing from personal histories, colonialism, modernism, […]
Meet Over Lunch: Alexandra Crouwers / Mistakes
Wednesday, April 29, 2020 anno covidi, I was supposed to give a talk over lunch at the end of my two months involvement with Residency Unlimited. This, of course, took place in another universe. Instead, I flew back home to Belgium on March 15 for obvious reasons. Luckily, the two weeks in New York were […]
Erik Sikora in Conversation with Lilia Kudelia
Curator Lilia Kudelia talks to resident artist Erik Sikora (2020). Back in Košice, Slovakia after his abridged residency, Sikora shares stories about biking through empty Manhattan in the wake of the COVID-19 quarantine, reevaluates his video-essayistic practice on YouTube, and explains his Dadaistic strategies aimed at escaping from the pristine context of the gallery. Domestic […]
Elizabeth Moran: Against the Best Possible Sources
Elizabeth Moran presents on a recent site-specific installation at Southern Methodist University that contextualizes her practice and directly feeds into the work that she plans on doing while in residence at Residency Unlimited. Informed by a preoccupation with the subjectivity of facts and the evidence of unknown or little understood histories, Moran’s research-based practice […]