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Maija Luutonen

Maija Luutonen (b. 1978) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, who primarily works with painting on paper. Luutonen’s aproach to painting is conceptual, yet her practice is strongly influenced by the seemingly uncontrolles sides of the mind. Often examining the attributes and expanding the limits of the medium, her work simultaneously deals with two-dimensionality and spatiality, as well as the very notion of representation. This exploration extends to the surface of the paper, sometimes handled as a relief in which her markings bring forth shapes from the reverse side. Considering the surface as something transient, Luutonen addresses the relation between time and movement. Her practice often narrates around spatial immersion, our relation to built environment, nature and all its scales. In more recent work she focuses on the oscillation between anxiety and ecstasy in times of constant input, on encrypted subjects, language formation and strange weather. Reflecting on spatiality through an otherwise flat surface, the artist deals with notions of seemingly enclosed spaces, or rooms; where we live, where we look out, where the material and digital more and more seem to merge, where art is presented. The surface becomes a bag of narratives and thoughts; the room a stage for both withdrawal and emergence.

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Maija Luutonen (b. 1978) is a visual artist based in Helsinki, who primarily works with painting on paper. Luutonen’s aproach to painting is conceptual, yet her practice is strongly influenced by the seemingly uncontrolles sides of the mind. Often examining the attributes and expanding the limits of the medium, her work simultaneously deals with two-dimensionality and spatiality, as well as the very notion of representation. This exploration extends to the surface of the paper, sometimes handled as a relief in which her markings bring forth shapes from the reverse side. Considering the surface as something transient, Luutonen addresses the relation between time and movement. Her practice often narrates around spatial immersion, our relation to built environment, nature and all its scales. In more recent work she focuses on the oscillation between anxiety and ecstasy in times of constant input, on encrypted subjects, language formation and strange weather. Reflecting on spatiality through an otherwise flat surface, the artist deals with notions of seemingly enclosed spaces, or rooms; where we live, where we look out, where the material and digital more and more seem to merge, where art is presented. The surface becomes a bag of narratives and thoughts; the room a stage for both withdrawal and emergence.

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Current DUMBO Resident: Amiko Li

Amiko Li (b. 1993, Shanghai, China) is a visual artist working across photography, text, and video. Through strategies of reenactment, exchange and mistranslation, his works explore an aleatoric approach to the nuances in the cultural and social system, as well as ethics of language and representation. He is currently working on a text-based project that draws sources including acupuncture, palm reading, induction of psychogenic illness, tetrochromacy in birds, rating system, and body autonomy.

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Amiko Li (b. 1993, Shanghai, China) is a visual artist working across photography, text, and video. Through strategies of reenactment, exchange and mistranslation, his works explore an aleatoric approach to the nuances in the cultural and social system, as well as ethics of language and representation. He is currently working on a text-based project that draws sources including acupuncture, palm reading, induction of psychogenic illness, tetrochromacy in birds, rating system, and body autonomy.

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Current Governors Island Resident: Eozen Agopian

Eozen Agopian was born in Athens, Greece.  She received an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and a BFA degree from Hunter College, New York. In her work she creates visual parallels between rational and cosmological worlds through constructing and deconstructing, layering and erasing, scraping and marking, unraveling and reconnecting.  She incorporates techniques of drawing, painting, sewing and weaving.

During the Governors island residency, along with studies and experimentation with small and medium sized works, she will create a three-dimensional, four-sided art piece/painting that one can enter and exist within. This is an idea that she has been developing as a way to expand her practice from evoking the third dimension on the surface of the paintings to make a more expansive environmental work.

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Eozen Agopian was born in Athens, Greece.  She received an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and a BFA degree from Hunter College, New York. In her work she creates visual parallels between rational and cosmological worlds through constructing and deconstructing, layering and erasing, scraping and marking, unraveling and reconnecting.  She incorporates techniques of drawing, painting, sewing and weaving.

During the Governors island residency, along with studies and experimentation with small and medium sized works, she will create a three-dimensional, four-sided art piece/painting that one can enter and exist within. This is an idea that she has been developing as a way to expand her practice from evoking the third dimension on the surface of the paintings to make a more expansive environmental work.

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Current DUMBO Curator Resident: Yao Mengxi

Yao Mengxi is an independent curator living and working in Shanghai, China. Through different modes of practices, she calls artists and scholars in various fields to work together, to promote and establish a cultural context belonging to the Chinese language as distinguished from globalization and that which it subordinates. Her recent work involves social cybernetics, the industrialization process of the Republic (China After 1949) and the cultural identity of the worker class. She is co-founder of Radical Space (2014)—which specializes in group exhibitions—and the recipient of international awards for art criticism from Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum and the Royal College of Art. She was chosen to participate in Power Station of Art’s Emerging Curators’ Project and is a regular contributor to Artforum China, Artworld, Ran Dian, and LEAP. She cites traveling outside China in 2017—to documenta 14 and Münster Sculpture Project—as instrumental in helping her determine how to articulate her curatorial work and its urgency in the context of Chinese culture. In New York, she proposes to research group exhibitions, and meet with curators and artists to understand exhibition planning in relation to American culture

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Yao Mengxi is an independent curator living and working in Shanghai, China. Through different modes of practices, she calls artists and scholars in various fields to work together, to promote and establish a cultural context belonging to the Chinese language as distinguished from globalization and that which it subordinates. Her recent work involves social cybernetics, the industrialization process of the Republic (China After 1949) and the cultural identity of the worker class. She is co-founder of Radical Space (2014)—which specializes in group exhibitions—and the recipient of international awards for art criticism from Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum and the Royal College of Art. She was chosen to participate in Power Station of Art’s Emerging Curators’ Project and is a regular contributor to Artforum China, Artworld, Ran Dian, and LEAP. She cites traveling outside China in 2017—to documenta 14 and Münster Sculpture Project—as instrumental in helping her determine how to articulate her curatorial work and its urgency in the context of Chinese culture. In New York, she proposes to research group exhibitions, and meet with curators and artists to understand exhibition planning in relation to American culture

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Current Governors Island Resident: Shane Aslan Selzer

With the Social Action Archive Committee (SAAC), artist Shane Aslan Selzer is producing a film using images from the archive of artists Carl George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Ross Laycock at Visual AIDS, the only arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness.  SAAC is also making a series of seven screen prints based on letters by Laycock from the archive. These prints redact much of the body of the letters, leaving specific fragments on the page in the same original position. SAAC’s act of interpretation seeks to reflect the significance of the fragments themselves. Please consider this an essay in experimental form, which is a dialogue between thirty year old letters and an unfolding critical response. Screen Printing is used as a process because it lifts and maintains Laycock’s hand.

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With the Social Action Archive Committee (SAAC), artist Shane Aslan Selzer is producing a film using images from the archive of artists Carl George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Ross Laycock at Visual AIDS, the only arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness.  SAAC is also making a series of seven screen prints based on letters by Laycock from the archive. These prints redact much of the body of the letters, leaving specific fragments on the page in the same original position. SAAC’s act of interpretation seeks to reflect the significance of the fragments themselves. Please consider this an essay in experimental form, which is a dialogue between thirty year old letters and an unfolding critical response. Screen Printing is used as a process because it lifts and maintains Laycock’s hand.

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Current Governors Island Resident: Lydia Okrent

Lydia Okrent is committed to an investigation into the agency of the dancer. She writes, “Though my legibility as a dancer is activated by the choreographers I work with, I am the agent of my own form. When I am thinking about dance, performing a dance, rehearsing a dance, I am always making dance. My work is located inside the coordination of embodied ideas. There is something in what I do that isn’t found in training or a final product but, instead, in a quiet transference. I’ve started referring to it as embodied empathy power or, EEP- my EEP is activated by confronting someone else’s needs and vision, and then figuring out how to make it mine and make it move.”

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Lydia Okrent is committed to an investigation into the agency of the dancer. She writes, “Though my legibility as a dancer is activated by the choreographers I work with, I am the agent of my own form. When I am thinking about dance, performing a dance, rehearsing a dance, I am always making dance. My work is located inside the coordination of embodied ideas. There is something in what I do that isn’t found in training or a final product but, instead, in a quiet transference. I’ve started referring to it as embodied empathy power or, EEP- my EEP is activated by confronting someone else’s needs and vision, and then figuring out how to make it mine and make it move.”

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Current Governors Island Resident: Mo Kong

Mo Kong is a researcher and multi-media artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is deeply impacted by social events and posits questions about the current political environment. His research-led process usually takes the form of large scale installations involving science research and multiple journalism perspectives in which he challenges key issues using complex narratives that synthesize the past with the present.

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Mo Kong is a researcher and multi-media artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is deeply impacted by social events and posits questions about the current political environment. His research-led process usually takes the form of large scale installations involving science research and multiple journalism perspectives in which he challenges key issues using complex narratives that synthesize the past with the present.

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Current Governors Island Resident: Carl E. Hazlewood

Brooklyn based Carl E. Hazlewood, born in Guyana, received a BFA (with honors) from Pratt, and an MA from Hunter College. Also a curator and writer, he co-founded Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ. Recent honors include Fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. A 2017 ‘Tree of Life Foundation’ award grantee, his fifty-two foot painting installation, ‘TRAVELER’, was commissioned for the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens, in 2017. Hazlewood’s work has been seen in the PRIZM, Volta, and Scope Art Fairs. BOMB Magazine and the NY Times are among publications that have written about the artist.

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Brooklyn based Carl E. Hazlewood, born in Guyana, received a BFA (with honors) from Pratt, and an MA from Hunter College. Also a curator and writer, he co-founded Aljira a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ. Recent honors include Fellowships and residencies from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. A 2017 ‘Tree of Life Foundation’ award grantee, his fifty-two foot painting installation, ‘TRAVELER’, was commissioned for the Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens, in 2017. Hazlewood’s work has been seen in the PRIZM, Volta, and Scope Art Fairs. BOMB Magazine and the NY Times are among publications that have written about the artist.

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Current DUMBO Resident: Adam Liam Rose

Adam Liam Rose (b. 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography, video and installation.  Born in Jerusalem and raised mostly in the United States, his works investigate the aesthetic systems of power embedded within architecture.  Rose draws inspiration from political realities in Israel / Palestine and the United States, often looking to structures of separation and control whose intentions either manifest outright, or slither beneath the surface.  Utilizing and subverting utilitarian materials including paper, textiles, and plywood, he creates a space for dialogue between the permanent and the ephemeral, the physical body, and the history embedded in objects.