Current and Recent Artists-in-Residence

2007-08

Marcelline Delbecq (France)

Silence Plateau, 2005
Purple fluorescent light, black paint, 7 x 100cm
Courtesy Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris

Vert Pâle, 2005-present, Collaboration, Marcelline Delbecq & Benoit Delbecq
Live musical reading with video projection, 45'
Photo copyright Pierre Bongiovanni

Waiting for the Moon, 2006
Numeric print, 6 x 30cm
Courtesy Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris

Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua

Braggin' Rites (The Largest Bowie Knife) 2005 Wood, metal, paper, Styrofoam refrigerator, Cushman, sound, electronics, light, candles, tomatoes, water pumps, paint, Plexiglas, effects petals, blenders. Size Varies.
Bragging is elevated into a novel, uniquely American Art. The Bowie Knife's proud hilt and man-killer curve are the signature of its designer Jim Bowie (pronounced BOO-ie), the legendary frontiersman. It cantilevers 120 feet through the spine of the gallery and is reputedly sharp enough to cut a tomato. This masterful wreckage of salvaged debris explodes into a demonic, hoodlum's opera. The handle is a traffic cop's Cushman all-weather motor scooter, while the hilt is an old fridge, modified into an iron maiden. It opens into a light show and the screaming throb of eight-year-olds (gathered up from the YMCA), singing "Run to Hills. Run for your lives". One side of the blade is a scrap tin facade sporting a razor sharp tip that the viewer must pass under. The other side of the blade shows that it is not just the largest blade but that it has many useful and metaphoric gadgets.

Boat Raising 2005. Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, UK.
Wood, fiberglass dingy, plastic jugs, rocks, rope, old fishing boat. 8' x 10' x 6'
While exploring the industrial harbor area of Barrow at low tide, we found several sunken fishing boats. We quickly met Neil a local sailor. He explained that the Scottish government commissioned the boats and then in the 80's demanded they be burned and sunk. Putting a lot of guys out of work and destroying some fine fishing vessels. The next day we returned with a couple of handsaws and cut as much of the boat as we could free from the muddy harbor floor. We then reassembled the boat and constructed a make shift floating device to keep it above water. Raising it from the dead on the lake of Coniston. Photo courtesey of Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery.

Folly Chopper Dynasty 2004, The Brooklyn Museum, NYC
Wood, Plexiglas, plastic, metal, cardboard, lights, audio, water pumps, plants, wax, rope, plaster, concrete, paint, silicone, plant. 20' x 25' x 22'
A parasitic structure sprouting from the backside of the museum- an architectural annex to the museum. Our own DIY museum- show casing a remote control shark, gravity driven racecar, models of home improvements gone wrong, speaker man, a ketchup machine, garden, totem poles and many other uncanny artifacts.

Annette Gödde

All work and no Play, 2007
Video-Object, LCD-TV + DVD, mirror, MDF, cardboard, 90 x 50 x 50 cm
Stedefreund, Berlin

In-Between-Girl, 2005
Video, Installation-View, variable size,
Monitoring, Documenta-Halle, Kassel

Moving Ground, 2006
Video, Installation-View, variable size,
Kunstverein Ravensburg,

Spring 2008 Resident Artist
Martine Kaczynski

Appalachian Shade, 17' x 11' x 8"
canopy 5.5' x 3.5' X 2'

Shade on Weaver Street, 17' x 11' x 8"
canopy 5.5' x 3.5' X 2'