High in the historic Equitable Building in the heart of the Financial District, LMCC has created eight temporary studios for visual artists and small arts collaboratives, with stunning panoramic views of Lower Manhattan. �During their 3-4 month residencies on the 29th floor, the artists develop and create projects across a wide variety of disciplines, from architecture to film, painting to new media.
Space at 120 Broadway is generously donated by Silverstein Properties.
Chris Bors is a New York City-based artist who uses a variety of media, including painting, photography and video. He received his MFA from School of Visual Arts. His work is based on appropriation, autobiographical references, and obsessive personality traits, which can be traced to a steady diet of television, video games, underground comics, and hardcore punk music.
Group exhibitions in New York include B Hotel at PS1 MoMA, Mama's Boy, curated by Jane Harris at White Columns, Sasquatch Society at Sixtyseven, Grendel, with Jack the Pelican Presents in Miami, and Volume(s), curated by Marc Clement and Kevin Muhlen, at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg. His videos have been shown at The Videoex Festival in Zurich, Stromereien Open Air Performance Tage, curated by Harm Lux, in Zurich, and Good Humor, organized by Tricia McLaughlin and Sharon Paz at Pullox in Berlin. Reviews and publications include The New York Times, Time Out New York, K48, Vogue Italia, zingmagazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and PAJ. He has curated exhibitions at Here Art in New York and Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and written on art for Artnet, ARTINFO, and ArtReview.
He is the director of the fake gallery Triton Gallery, LLC. His website is www.chrisbors.com.
In the Swing Space, Chris plans to continue his series of paintings that incorporates logos from hardcore punk bands combined with drawn and found images. His source material varies, ranging from his own sketches, to coloring books, and images from the web. He often incorporate a more painterly approach with splashes of color and abstract passages to activate the surface and create a jarring juxtaposition.
Bureau V specializes in the design and production of architecture that engages in beauty, culture, and economy. The studio's expertise lies in a range of work from cultural institutions to large commercial buildings to performance and new media installations. Founded in 2007 by Peter Zuspan, Stella Lee, and Alexander Pincus, Bureau V has developed a diverse portfolio of experimental work. Significant projects include a collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Imaginary Forces on the design of /Infoscape/, the new information landscape for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; a new facade for ESL Corporation's headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ; /Autopilot/, a theatrical production performed in Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall; and a masterplan and design of a 120 acre sustainable farm and eco-resort in La Balsa, Costa Rica. The members of Bureau V met on the campus of Columbia University where they received their Master of Architecture.
Bureau V would like to reengage the architectural drawing through its convention as a deliverable and reconfigure its value by using new representational techniques. They are interested in oscillating along that line wherein the conventions of drawing with which measured data is conveyed (plan, section, elevation, perspective) is spliced with painterly and graphic elements that in turn infuse the entire piece with an affective presence that moves past the efficacy of information retrieval. By the end of their tenure, Bureau V will produce nine large-scale compositions as 3 triptychs.
Francisca is a Brazilian artist based in Brooklyn. She has a Master Degree from MECAD-ESDI in Barcelona, Spain, and she is a MFA candidate at Hunter College in Integrated Media Arts. She is an AAUW International Fellowship 2007/08 recipient.
Mary Jeys studied studio art at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work has been exhibited in New York; New Jersey; Austin, Texas; and Dublin, Ireland. She lives and works in Brooklyn and likes explosions very much.
Francisca Caporali and Mary Jeys have both worked exploring the aesthetics of destruction. They will collaborate to recreate, through video and visual montage, Hollywood scenes of New York City being destroyed. Upon finding and selecting destruction scenes, Francisca will re-shoot the areas where these scenes take place as they are today. Mary will then draw and paint a representation of each frame of video shot by Francisca and alter it in a way inspired by an original explosion or image of destruction from selected films set in downtown Manhattan. They will overlay a drawing/painting on a representation of the original footage from Manhattan as it is today. The project is meant to combine the reality of Manhattan with the fictionalized action setting of the city.
Stephanie Diamond has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Cuchifritos Gallery, New York, Para-Site Gallery, Beacon, New York, and at Galeria Sin Titulo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Sculpture Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Katonah Museum of Art, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, The Light Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina, Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, Andrew Kreps Gallery, Art In General, and Artists Space. She received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, and her M.A. from New York University.
Stephanie works with the idea that photography is an art medium that is most comfortably spoken about, shared, and understood by non-artists. All of Stephanie's images are amassed in an archive of, loosely counted, 100,000 photographs. The archive includes every photograph that she has ever taken, or has been given to her, and is the focus and starting-off point for much of her current practice and projects today.
In her Swing Space Stephanie will be working on archiving this archive, and will be meeting with people to talk and look at their personal snap shot archives.
Ketta Ioannidou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. She lives and works in New York City. She received her BA (hons) from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, PS 122 Gallery, Sixtyseven, Foxy Production, and Here Art in New York, The Carriage House at The Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Diatopos in Nicosia, Cyprus. She represented Cyprus in the 9th International Cairo Biennale in 2003, the 24th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries in Egypt in 2007, and the 1999 Rome Biennale for Young Artists from European and Mediterranean Countries. She participated in the Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Aljira Emerge at Aljira in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded a residency at The Artists' Enclave at I-Park in East Haddam, Connecticut. Ioannidou's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Flash Art. She will have a solo exhibition at Go North gallery in Beacon, New York in June 2008.
Ketta plans on making large paintings as well as several small-scale works that will be used for an upcoming solo exhibition. They will be a continuation of her series developing a relationship between natural form and human design. Blending myth with reality, her paintings will re-interpret the natural landscape and make an ecosystem that exists somewhere between representation and abstraction.
Yola Monakhov was born in Moscow, lives in New York, and is a photographer. She will have her first solo show this May at the Sasha Wolf Gallery in Tribeca. She works as a contributing photographer for The New Yorker magazine and has shown her photographs in groups shows in New York, Virginia, and Moscow. She has worked internationally as an assignment photographer in the former Soviet Union, Central Asia and the Middle East . She received her BA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and her MA and MFA from Columbia University, where she currently teaches photography.
For her Swing Space residency, Yola Monakhov plans to turn her space into a photographic portrait studio, where she will photograph people in New York, both known and unknown to her, for an ongoing project that looks at the architecture, people and landscapes of the metropolis. Those wishing to make an appointment for a portrait, please send Yola an e-mail.
Ari was born and raised in Tokyo, receiving her undergraduate education at Sophia University (BA in International Legal Studies, '97). She attended the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Studio Art at Brandies University in 2001, participated in the Vermont Studio Center Residency Program in April 2004, and will received her MFA from the University of Connecticut in sculpture and video performance art in May 2007.
In her Swing Space, Ari will work on a new garment piece, Dress for Today #5, which will take the form of a long tunnel. It will connect reality and her own world like a path. She will perform a robing and disrobing or the piece as part of a video project.
Haeri Yoo is a painter who was born in Korea in 1970. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute and lives and works in New York. Her work has been exhibited at Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx River Arts Center, Thomas Erben gallery, White box gallery, in New York, Germany, China. Her work has been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, NY Arts Magazine. Yoo is a recipient of AHL foundation award and participated in the residency at Henry Street Settlement, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. In her mixed- media drawing, site-specific installation Yoo explores human sexuality and the psychological: humor, overt and subtle in between beauty and violence.
The project at the Swing Space is a site-specific installation that will blur the boundaries between drawing and sculpture in architectural space. Haeri will be developing a work which more specifically deals with three-dimensionality and wall-scaled drawing.
