ACE AIR: ELIZABETH LOPICCOLO
Program: Ace AIR Location: Ace Hotel New York Date of Stay: 03.03.19 Artist: Elizabeth LoPiccolo
During a recent stay at Ace Hotel New York, photographer Elizabeth LoPiccolo shot two photo series and two additional single images in her hotel room. Using her Rolleiflex camera to shoot on film, the series ("Three Looks out My Window " and "Four Feather Pillows") offer interior views while "Sentinels" and "Sometime After Breslin" provide a glimpse of the neighboring skyscrapers.
Elizabeth LoPiccolo is a photographer and musician living in Brooklyn. A constant theme in her visual work is the exploration of intended and unintended forms of cultural production as they interact with constructed and natural environments. She prefers the slowness of film and appreciates the way an antique camera may encourage a subject to enter into more curious modes of being photographed. Her musical projects include Ziemba in which she supports band leader René Kladzyk, and Luscious Skin in which she collaborates with her partner Rhys Ziemba.
This March, our Artists in Residence are curated by Bushwick Community Darkroom, which promotes and preserves the art of film photography in Brooklyn by directing resources to high school programs and open call opportunities for local artists. When founder Lucia Rollow graduated with her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, she found herself without an accessible space to print and develop film. Determined to continue the legacy of film photography, Rollow realized other artists were struggling with similar barriers. With just a handful of equipment, very little money and a dream, she opened Bushwick Community Darkroom in 2011. While simultaneously building a local network through her leadership of Bushwick Open Studios, Rollow assembled a motley team, which transformed BCD from a makeshift basement space into the bustling 3,000 square foot warehouse it is today. Almost a decade later, BCD now boasts more than 30 members, 24/7 access to darkrooms, color and black-and-white film processing, low-cost workshops and curated photography exhibitions. Members, volunteers and students work together to create a vibrant, affordable art space.
