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LMCC Workspace Studio Visits 2020
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LMCC Studio Visit: Naomi Safran-Hon
#LMCCWorkspace 2019-2020 artist Naomi Safran-Hon explores personal and collective histories and the fragility of human experience with a focus on the internal energy of the material, continuously pushing the viewer to look beyond the surface.
Naomi's solo exhibition "All My Lovers" is currently on view at Slag Gallery online. In this exhibition, Naomi continues her interrogation of the concept of home as both physical site and familiar locus for the conflict between myth and truth. She has expanded her practice by pushing against the boundaries of painting and incorporating the sculptural into her work in order to more intensely investigate her subject matter.
View and explore "All My Lovers" in 3D: https://www.artland.com/exhibitions/all-my-lovers
LMCC Studio Visit: Leah Raintree
#LMCCArtsCenterArtist Leah Raintree is a Brooklyn-based artist raised in rural Virginia. Her practice focuses on the human connection to Earth, engaging questions at the intersection of art, ecology, and human activity. She works across drawing, photography and sculpture to distill correlations between human and geologic scales, with an interest in how we frame and experience time, matter, scale, and phenomena. In this interview, Leah talks about her research and work in her studio at LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island.
Maskmaking with CamCam by Liz Sargent
Liz Sargent, co-producer of 2019 film, Slow Down: River To River has created a maskmaking video with Margaret Cam, owner of CamCam, who has retrofitted her small clothing company to make masks.
Margaret is using the proceeds to help employ seamstresses to sew masks for donations. The company is specifically aimed to support hospitals, homeless shelters and smaller organizations that are the most vulnerable communities in the pandemic.
Learn more at https://www.camcam.nyc/
LMCC Studio Visit: Gabriel García Román
LMCC Workspace 2019-2020 artist-in-residence Gabriel Garcia Román is a Harlem-based artist born in Zacatecas, Mexico. His work highlights disenfranchised communities. In this studio visit with Gabriel, he talks about his project "Q***r Icons," embroidery, and what he has been working on in his LMCC Workspace studio.
Learn more about Gabriel on LMCC's website here: https://lmcc.net/artist/gabriel-garcia-roman-workspace-2019-20/
#LMCCWorkspace #LMCCStudioVisit
LMCC Studio Visit: Aida Šehović
We visited #LMCCArtsCenterArtist Aida Šehović back in late January. She spoke about her project ŠTO TE NEMA – an annual nomadic monument to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide organized every July 11th with local communities in each host city since 2006.
Aida is a Bosnian born artist based in New York. Combining ritual and politics, Šehović uses the mechanism of social engagement to address her own cultural heritage and history.
Currently, Aida is reading for one hour at 12 PM every day from "Forty Rules of Love" by Elif Shafak. Follow @aida_sehovic on Instagram and watch her Instagram Story to listen to the full hour daily!
LMCC Studio Visit: Jillian McDonald
Jillian McDonald (@jillianmmcdonald) is a current artist-in-residence at #LMCCArtsCenter. The Arts Center Residency is Jillian's third residency with LMCC. She began as a #LMCCWorkspace resident in 2007 then continued her journey in 2016 as a LMCC Process Space resident.
Jillian currently is working on a video piece that she filmed in the Arctic. She spends her time in her studio editing the video piece with humorous and unexpected digital interventions. This work will be on view at Five Myles Gallery (@fivemyles)in Brooklyn from February 28 - March 22, 2020.
#LMCCArtsCenterArtists across disciplines are exploring themes of social justice/social practice, NYC Harbor, Governors Island history, and climate change. #LMCCStudioVisit
Apply for Workspace 2020-2021!
LMCC’s flagship residency program, Workspace, is a nine-month studio-based program that focuses on the creative process and cohort development of emerging artists. At its core, Workspace nurtures experimentation, creative risk taking, collaboration, learning and skill sharing through regular opportunities for dialogue with peers and arts professionals. Participating artists are provided round-the-clock access to semi-private studio spaces and are expected to engage with the cohort for the full duration of the nine-month program.
Applications for Workspace 2020–2021 are due on Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 5 pm Eastern time. Applicants are notified of LMCC’s decision no later than August 31, 2020. Please do not call or email about results prior to notifications.
LMCC’s Artist Residency Programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Space for the 2019–2020 Workspace program was donated by Cove Property Group and BentallGreenOak.
LMCC 2019 - 2020 Workspace artists-in-residence include:
Sonia Louise Davis (@sonia_louise_davis)
Gabriel Garcia Roman (@gbrlgrcrmn)
Beatrice Glow (@beatriceglow)
Sara Jimenez (@saraegj)
Zaq Landsberg (@zaqlandsberg)
Kevin Quiles Bonilla (@kevinquilesbonilla)
Naomi Safran-Hon (@naomisafranhon)
Amy Lee Sanford (@amyleesanford)
Sydney Shen (@lawnmowerwoman)
Christine Wong Yap (@christinewongyap)
Zac Hacmon (@zac_hacmon)
