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NEW MEMBER EXHIBITION 2021
September 7 – December 7, 2021
Keren Anavy
Mahsa Biglow
Janet Loren Hill
Melissa Joseph
Kosuke Kawahara
Hayoon Jay Lee
jc lenochan
Michael Mandiberg
A young Yu
Curated by Natalia Nakazawa and HC Huỳnh
Melissa Joseph, Peanut M&Ms, Nike and bunny ears on Nan and Bap's swing, 2020
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program warmly welcomes the 2021 New Studio Member Artists in the exhibition: [body]2[body]. This cohort of New Studio Member Artists were selected by a jury panel from a competitive pool of applicants. We thank our distinguished panel of arts professionals: Solana Chehtman, Kayla Coleman, Ilaria Conti, Laurel Ptak, and Seph Rodney. The nine selected New Studio Member Artists are awarded a two-year renewable membership that includes a subsidized studio and professional development opportunities in our Midtown Manhattan arts building.
What is our bodily relation to
[other bodies] [places] & [mental spaces] ?
[body]2[body] frames the varying media and practices of the nine EFA New Studio Member Artists by reflecting on our own bodily relations under the circumstances of the pandemic. These artists fixate, negotiate, and/or appreciate relationships through exploring modes such as abstraction, materiality, and personal narratives.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
In order of appearance in the show:
Melissa Joseph is interested in connecting people through collective memory and shared experiences. Her work addresses themes of diaspora, family histories and the politics of how we occupy spaces.
www.melissajoseph.net
Flipping the traditional gender roles of portraiture, Janet Loren Hill positions her husband as a generative muse. Letting desire direct her imagination, she casts him in revealing and lurid roles inspired by internet wormhole catalysts and characters encountered during routine life.
www.janetlorenhill.com
Michael Mandiberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose work manifests the poetics and politics of the information age. This approach crosses media and categories: from large-scale installations like Print Wikipedia’s 7,473 books, to software driven durational performance like Quantified Self Portrait, to socially engaged collaborations such as Art+Feminism, of which Mandiberg is a co-founder.
www.mandiberg.com
Through performance-based film, A young Yu explores Korean folk traditions and spiritual practices. Her work aims to transgress older traditions, regenerating them within queer, diasporic contexts.
www.ayoung-yu.com
Keren Anavy is a multimedia artist who explores the dynamic relationships between nature, culture and sites. Her paintings are the point of departure for large scale site-specific installations and, or performances that operate on an architectural scale.
www.kerenanavy.com
jc lenochan’s work functions as a series of questions regarding the acquisition of knowledge, in terms of how information is distributed, disseminated and discarded, through the process of deconstructing objects and de-circulating/decoding institutional relics.
www.jclenochan.com
Mahsa Biglow is a New York based, Iranian-born interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her research-based work investigates the intersection of art, mass media, technology, and post-colonialism. She explores these themes in video, installation, and performance through storytelling, oral history, and found footage.
www.mahsabiglow.com
Hayoon Jay Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who addresses the sensibilities and susceptibilities of individuals, while also encouraging reflection upon human dilemmas. She combines installations, performances, sculptures, videos and paintings. Lee is constantly re-discovering and reflecting upon the patterns and rhythms, which open a window into human desires and actions.
www.hayoonjaylee.net
Kosuke Kawahara explores meditative moments of instability and ways to confront fear through his artistic practice. This approach is rooted in the volatile nature of the artist’s experience in Japan —specifically, multiple major earthquakes, which cultivated an understanding of coexistence with nature. This consequently allows the acceptance of impermanence, imperfection, and insufficiency in process - addressing the wild factors of material aging, deterioration, and discoloration.
www.kosukekawahara.org
EVENTS
Virtual Opening & New Member Artist Panel on Tuesday, September 7th, 6:30 - 8:30pm via Zoom
Exhibition Catalog Release Party
Join us in-person
Tuesday, November 16, 6 - 8 pm
EFA on the 3rd Floor
EXHIBITION MATERIALS
PRESS INQUIRIES
Natalia Nakazawa
Assistant Director of the EFA Studio Program
212-563-5855 x234 | natalia@efanyc.org