While in residence at CPW, each artist will receive 24/7 access to professional workspace including CPW's digital and traditional darkrooms, critical and technical support, housing, travel & food stipend, and honoraria.
Our thanks to our 2012 Panel for their careful consideration of all the applications we received. The 2012 panel included;
- Nicole Caruth (2011 A-I-R Critical Studies resident, freelance writer and curator for Art21, ARTnews, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others)
- Paul Mpagi Sepuya (2010 A-I-R)
- Yukiko Yamagata (Program Officer & Exhibition Manager, Open Society Institute)
The 2012 program is made possible in part with support from the Milton & Sally Avery Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts with support from Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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CALEB FERGUSON (Queens, NY)
Caleb Ferguson graduated from Eugene Lang College at The New School for Liberal Arts in 2010 with a BA in Urban Studies. He is a contract photographer for The New York Times where he covers assignments for the Metro Picture Desk as well as The Global Oneness Project, where he photographs public displays of religion and spirituality in New York City. HIs photographs have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, and Newsday. Ferguson's images of the Occupy protest was included in the exhibition program Wall Street to Main Street organized by the Greene County Council on the Arts in Catskill, NY.
For his residency at CPW, Ferguson will have the opportunity to focus on a long-term documentary project on the connotations of Main Street in America. Once a representation of the core values of America and an embodiment of a particular brand of success, Main Street now fails to accurately portray the economical depression of small towns across the nation. Through the exploration of towns in the region like Catskill and Hudson, Ferguson will employ photography and audio to juxtapose our historic and romanticized notions of Main Street with the realities of how American commerce operates today.
www.calebferguson.com
RATNA KHANNA (Rochester, NY)
Based in Rochester, NY, artist Ratna Khanna holds an MFA in Photography and Imaging Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and a BFA in Liberal Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held positions as a photographer, designer, teaching assistant, photojournalist, artist's apprentice, studio manager, and photo editor. A recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, her work has appeared in online publications Photography Served and Urbanautica, among others.
Khanna produces billboards and houses made of mirrors and and situates them in the local landscape. She is interested in using the three-dimensional object of the mirror sculpture to articulate at two-dimensional image. In her exploration of the Hudson Valley she intends to employ the landscape as a medium in and of itself, using the mirrors as a tool to explore issues of culture, place, and the concept of home.
ALMA LEIVA (Miami, FL)
Originally from the Honduras, Alma Leiva is currently based between Miami, Florida and Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her work has been presented internationally in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Humble Arts Foundation (NYC), Arteles (Haukijarvi, Finland), Daniel Azoulay Gallery and Art Basel (both in Miami, FL). A solo exhibition of her En La Celda (Inside the Cell) was on view at 6th Street Container (Miami, FL) in 2011. She was a resident of the Vermont Studio Center in 2011 and her work been published in Artpulse, Fader, and the Miami New TImes, among others.
Over the course of her residency at CPW, Leiva will produce two site-specific installations which will culminate in two photographic works for her series En La Celda (Inside the Cell). As an examination of violence and how it effects the alienation of Central American citizens, her work juxtaposes outdoor activites with imaginary spaces. Calling to mind the absurdity of magical realism and influences ranging from Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude to Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl, Leiva constructs scenes to address the fear and voluntary seclusion that citizens of Central America's high-crime cities experience daily.
www.almaleiva.com
© Rebecca Belmore, Untitled, 2004.
LIZ PARK Brooklyn, NY)
Liz Park will be CPW's 2012 Critical Studies resident. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she was raised and educated in Vanouver, British Columbia, where she received her MA in Curatorial Studies. A participant of the Whitney Independent Study Program in NYC, other curatorial endeavors in the U.S. and Canada include Creative Destruction (2012), Stories from Places and Times Distantly Close (2009), and Limits of Tolerance (2007). She has received numerous awards from the Canada and British Columbia Council on the Arts and her writing has appeared in pubications such as FRONT Magazine, Ricepaper, ARTiculate, as well as several exhibition catalogues.
During her residency Liz Park will focus on Untether a project which examines the loaded relationship between photography and violence. Faced with the enormity of the visual network today, Park argues that art needs to contend with how such images are produced, ciruclated, and consumed. Her project brings together four artists (Rebecca Belmore, Ken Gonzales-Day, Francisco-Fernando Granados, and Louise Noguchi) who all resist simple reproduction of violent imagery, focusing rather on the limits and the construction of photographic images to bring attention to the violence of photographic representation itself. Over the course of her residency at CPW, Park will complete the first draft of the curatorial text, which she plans to incoporate into an exhibition comprised of a set of postcards featuring images from each artists.
KAMEELAH RASHEED (Brooklyn, NY)
Originally from East Palo Alto, California, Kameelah Rasheed is a photographer, archivist, arts and culture journalist, editor, curator, and high school instructor. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Brooklyn Artist Gym, The New York Public LIbrary (both in NYC), Artist Proof Studio (Johannesburg, South Arica), and The Fridge (Washington, D.C.). A 2006 Fulbright grant recipient, Rasheed's work has appeared in U.S. and African publications including ITCH Magazine, F-Stop, and Neo-Griot, among others. She is a writer and editor for Spector LIterary Magazine and Liberator Magazine.
Kameelah Rasheed's artistic practice weaves together orphaned photographs found at garage sales, photos stolen from the Facebook pages of estranged family member, 1970s magazine pages, water-damaged nimages salvaged during her family's10-year sturggle with homelessness, and her own photography to re-imagine a lost family history. Her residency will allow her to continue this project, entitled Memories: No Instructions for Assembly, by giving Rasheed time and space to document her process, reconfigure new images, and compile the project into a hand-bound "archeological dig book" containing handwritten notes, diptychs, contact sheets, and other family ephemera. In addition, Rasheed hopes to expand the project to include pieces which focus on the learning and mental disabilities, and social anxiety that her two brothers struggle with.
Sherwin Tibayan (Norman, OK)
Born in the Phillipines and currently based in Norman, OK, Sherwin Tibayan is a former Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistant in Austria. Exhibitions include Notes on a New Nature at 319 Scholes (NYC) and Switch at XL Art Space (Helsinki, Finland). His work has earned him recognition as a finalist for Critical Mass (2011) and Fotovisura's Student Spotlight Award (2010), and Honorable Mentions for the In Focus Photography Award (2010) and Flash Forward (2011). His project, The Histograms, received the 2012 Society for Photographic Education Award for Innovations in Imaging.
Following his final year of graduate school at the University of Oklahoma, Sherwin Tibayan continue work on several ongoing projects while in residence with CPW. Along with the time to explore new ideas as they come, Tibayan will continue to compile an index for Susan Sontag's On Photography which will culminate in a photographic and textual project that references the medium's simultaneous subjectivity and indexicality. He also plans to continue developing a series wherein he uses an out-of-service iPhone as a modern day Claude glass (a 18th century tool used to compose landscapes) while exploring the environs of Woodstock.
www.sherwinriveratibayan.com
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