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LMCC welcomes Kristaps Gulbis, CEC ArtsLink resident

LMCC is pleased to be hosting 2010 CEC Artslink resident artist Kristaps Gulbis from October 14 – November 17. Kristaps will maintain a studio at Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island for the duration of his residency.

The ArtsLink Residencies program offers artists and arts managers from Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus a five-week residency at an established, non-profit arts organization in the US. Host organizations are selected by CEC staff from an application process open to US non-profit organizations from all fifty US states.

Kristaps Gulbis is a sculptor, who lives and works in Latvia. He has participated in numerous contemporary art projects in more than 20 countries such as solo exhibition at Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Ireland, group exhibitions including the Lodz Biennale in Poland and at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, as well as a residency in Sapporo, Japan, to name just a few. His project "Pink House" (together with A.Bikse) was presented at the 51st Venice Biennale. For more information, please visit Kristaps's Facebook page, his portfolio site or the project page for Pink House.