Archives: Alumnus

Çağıl Harmandar was born and grew up in İstanbul, Turkey. She has studied in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and graduated in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her art and animations focus on bodily reactions to subtle emotions. Her work has been shown in international film and animation festivals.

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Glass Eye Shadow Pictures is a shadow theatre company based in Highland, NY. The company is founded on the collaborations of Adam Lipsky, music-director, musician and composer and Alisa Javits, creative-director, artist and fabricator. Many of their projects include collaborations with other artists and musicians. Their shadow performances are projected manually in large open spaces or on a large free-standing screen. Glass Eye Shadow Pictures creates immersive, cinematic live shadow performances that are accompanied by live score and sound design.

Since the founding of the group in 2013, Glass Eye Shadow Pictures has performed at large and small venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, (where they were formerly based), as well as throughout the U.S. and Canada. During recent years, they performed in the Santa Cruz Fringe Festival, Victoria (British Columbia) Fringe Festival and Calgary (Alberta) Fringe Festival. They hosted and performed at the centennial celebration of the Capawock Theater, in Tisbury, MA in 2013. In 2014, they hosted their “Spring Shadow Series” in the San Francisco Bay Area, and toured throughout the northwestern states. They are multiple-time recipients of the Zellerbach Community Arts Grant and the Bill Graham Supporting Foundation Grant. In November 2016, they were commissioned by the Mammoth Lakes Repertory Theater for a full schedule of youth performances. In May 2017, they were commissioned by the Common Grounds Festival in San Francisco to present an interactive, outdoor, public, two-day performance.

www.glasseyeshadowpictures.com

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Lindsey Wolkowicz (b.1981) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work revolves around the relationship between us and the spaces we occupy. Both the influence of her hometown of Detroit, and her decade in New York City, can be felt through the presence of grand, sometimes dilapidated, architectural lines in her work, as well as her awareness of the body in space. Though drawing is at the center of her practice, Wolkowicz’s work also moves into the realm of photography, video and performance installation through ongoing collaborative projects with her partner Dillon Paul. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She received her BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design and her MFA in Painting/ Drawing from Pratt Institute. She works in international admissions. She recently moved from Brooklyn to Kingston, NY where she now works and lives with her partner and their daughter.

www.lindseyawolkowicz.com

Bhalvin Prince was born in Guatemala. When he was 17 he came to the United States with his brother. He was living in Kingston, NY at a shelter for unaccompanied minors until this past November. On the morning of his 18th birthday he was taken by ICE from this home where he lived with his brother and others, and was taken to Orange County Jail in Goshen, NY. Despite no criminal record of any kind, he spent 2 months awaiting a court date of any kind, and a total of 4 months incarcerated. During this time he was able to create the pieces of art in this submission which express his frustration, his difficulties, and his understanding of perspective and patience and appreciation for what one does have. Thanks to community support from friends in the Hudson Valley, he was able to avoid deportation and be freed on bail and spend some time in the New York while awaiting processing of his asylum application. He currently resides with his brother in Nashville, TN.

Annie Poon is a multimedia artist from New Canaan, Connecticut. She is the middle child of a large Mormon family of eleven and has a twin sister. Annie’s biggest artistic influence was her mother Barbara who would take her out of elementary school to explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Annie went on to earn a BFA in drawing and painting from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has created over 30 short animations in addition to painting, prints, sculpture and music. Poon’s work often addresses her childhood pass times and mental illness- in particular her diagnosis of Schizzoaffective disorder. Annie has a daily practice of illustrating one scripture per day and has created over a thousand illustrations of her favorite scriptures.

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Community and creativity are very important to me, it is what keeps my heart going. I started “Smell the Damn Roses” to bring art and health together. It is about creative thought for happier people.

www.smellthedamnroses.com

Jessica Gaddis chases after moments when the natural and the synthetic meet. In an increasingly digital age she steadfastly works in physical materials. Weighty, fragile materials such as clay, glass and plaster become sensual fluid forms and are introduced to the withdrawn objects of daily life. She creates opportunity for reclamation.

Her project for O+ Kingston is an extension of her interest in the index. Indexes are typically ephemeral phenomena in the physical world: shadows, smoke, and footprints. The shadows of historical buildings are indexes of Kingston’s foundation as a pivotal part of the history of New York. Outlining shadows in colorful chalk is a playful nod to Kingston’s history while looking toward its ever-expanding support for the arts. Jessica is an artist working and living in Kingston, NY. She holds a BFA and MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz.

www.jessicagaddis.com

Delilah Jones is a mixed media collage artist, photographer and poet from New York. She received her B.F.A in Photography in 2009 from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Selected as an AIR recipient at the Arteles Creative Center in Haukijarvi, Finland in 2012, she made use of crowdfunding platforms to support her artistic pursuits. Working with Papercut Press, she published Portals in December 2012, and has been included in various independent bookstores and art fairs. She most recently was selected by Tumblr as their spotlight artist and designer for the 3rd Annual Fashion Honor Award during the 2015 NYFW. Her work has been featured by SFMOMA, Hyperallergic, Beautiful/Decay, Not Paper, Bust Magazine, The Rumpus, Serial Optimist, and has exhibited her work locally and nationally. She has collaborated with numerous artists on a diverse range of projects and continues to connect with her creative community at large. She is currently working feverishly from her bedroom in Brooklyn dreaming all the impossible paper dreams with perpetually sticky fingers and her newly adopted rescue dog Baisley.

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Andrew H. Shirley finds an obsession in living experimentation through a miscreant lifestyle detached from material pop culture. His multi disciplinary work has appeared in PS 1, MOCA, Museum of Sex, and films have screened at festivals in over 300 cities worldwide. As a social architect, he has curated the underground into public events from institutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music to a secret tree house art gallery he built in upstate NY. Though primarily nomadic, he sometimes resides outside of Kingston, NY.

www.wastedland2.com