Haemee Han

Artist Statement

With focus on the interplay between landscape and art objects, my projects tend to create intervention derived from the site context. The inspiration often comes from ordinary objects that can be easily found at each site. I usually take observation and research period to understand the site and choose the most significant object that relates to the site and the project. The procedure of “choosing”objects are not always the same. Sometimes the objects are chosen from site’s social, cultural means, sometimes inspiration comes from image of site’s landscape, or sometimes it comes from imaginary world, such as fairy tales and movies that relates to the project. With these objects, I am interested in creating a novel but familiar form of art by exercising the use of unusual arrangement, juxtaposition, shift in scale, color, and the use of extraordinary materials. My work tends to be human-occupiable art rather than strictly visual art work. The interventions I created intend to offer visitors accessible ways to engage with surrounding landscape. Blurring the boundary of public art and landscape, I pursue memorable site specific art that is visual, graphical, interactive, and experimental.

Name: Lily Project Year : 2021 Dimension : Varies , largest 8' diameter Location : East Haddam, CT

Bio

Haemee is a public artist, a landscape designer and an educator. Since establishing Jaemee Studio, Haemee exhibited public art installations and garden installations in America, Europe, and Asia including Chaumont sur loire garden festival in France. Her work explores relationship between objects and personal/collective memories. Most of her works are occupiable objects / landscape where visitors emerge themselves within the art. Haemee is also a registered landscape architect who practices in New Jersey, She holds a Master of Landscape Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

www.jaemeestudio.com

Shoshana Dentz

ARTIST STATEMENT

Everything in my paintings is directly observed from a reality I construct and set up on my studio table. An ongoing series, "within without" includes over 100 works, each made from the setup I’ve been re-arranging, staring at and painting since 2010: a thin-plastic, transparent, scotch-taped-together box placed among mirrors. I angle the setup’s reflective surfaces and funnel daylight - a volume materializes, becomes held within my box. Building a painting over months, I track every detail of this self-contained world. From the moment I start, everything is wrong. Translucent, refractive planes confuse surface from depth. Edges and forms jostle in the conflicting spatial truths each eye sends to my brain. I am enchanted with these perceptual rivalries, with the dynamically-subjective reality I witness as my painting grows. My goal is not mimetic realism; rather to hyper-attentively trace the continuous, elastic “becoming” that the phenomenal world unveils from deep inside perception.

Shoshana Dentz_within without flying buttress_oil on canvas_2022_ 16 x 12inches

BIO

Shoshana Dentz (1968, NYC) is a Brooklyn-based artist. Her small, seemingly abstract works are based on meticulously faithful, close-up observation of a transparent, scotch-taped-together box that she poses with mirrors. Conceived and constructed by the artist, this barely-there still-life has been the singular and serial subject of her painting and drawing practice of the past decade. Chasing to grasp every ephemeral reflection bounding through the microworld setup on her studio table, her paintings are meditations on the workings and instability of perception itself. Dentz earned her MFA from Bard College (2004) and BFA from Brandeis University (1989). She is the recipient of awards from Pollack Krasner Foundation, NYFA, Lower Eastside Printshop and The FID Drawing Prize. Residencies include Art Omi, (2005,2020), Siena Art Institute, Italy and Interlude Residency (both 2021). She recently completed a public, site-specific installation for Art-in-Buildings in New York. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Rose Art Museum, The Graduate Center NY, MoMA PS1, The Drawing Center, Rubin Museum of Art, The Samuel Dorsky Museum, Pera Museum Istanbul, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Center for the Arts Wesleyan University, Kohler Arts Center, Spertus Museum Chicago and a host of private galleries. She currently teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at Parsons The New School and NYU.

www.shoshanadentz.com


Jenny Zhang

ARTIST STATEMENT

I'm interested magic, spirals, ancestral wounds, ghosts, demented puberty, erotics, divination, desire, labor, love, abandonment, possibility, restitution, and healing. I believe the trivial and the obscene can be portals to the divine.

My Baby First Birthday by Jenny Zhang, published by Tin House Books in 2020.

Jenny Zhang is the author of Sour Heart, My Baby First Birthday, and several other works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. She also writes for tv and film.

https://jennybagel.com/


Rebecca Dale

Artist Statement

I am a tonal composer whose work is informed by a background in film and choral music. Film music has been indebted to concert music in its developments, and I enjoy integrating aspects of that soundworld back into the concert hall. I love to write music that makes me feel, I love melody, dense and expansive harmony and exploring the many of colours the choir and orchestra (which I was obsessed with from very young). Music is emotional catharsis so my work often, though not always, connects with processing the grief and loss that have been part of my personal experience, and more generally I suspect the yearning that's an unavoidable part of the human condition. I feel very lucky that I get to do it..

Recording at Fox Studios, Hollywood

Bio

Described by Classic FM as ‘one of today’s most exciting young composers’, British composer Rebecca Dale made history in when she became the first female composer to sign to Universal Music's Decca Classics label. Her debut album, Requiem For My Mother, went to No. 1 in the UK Specialist Classical Charts and her music is broadcast regularly on radio. As a concert composer her work has been performed by ensembles and artists including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Philharmonia, Tenebrae, Voces8, Steven Isserlis, Mari Samuelson and Angele Dubeau. Rebecca also composes for screen, most recently scoring the BBC's Write Around The World series with Richard E Grant, contributing music for the BBC adaption of Little Women and scoring for Sky's Urban Myths series. Her score to feature Crossing The Line was nominated for best original music in feature film at the Music & Sound Awards. She is an alumna of the Sundance Composers Lab, the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop and has judged for the Royal Television Society Awards and Ivor Novellos. She is currently the composer in residence for the Opus Foundation at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and in 2021 was commissioned to write the Church of England's first Christmas single.

Tom Slater

ARTIST STATEMENT

I'm a playwright, screenwriter, director and producer who can't seem to settle on a medium. I guess they all have to do with performance and shaping things for an audience. Seen from above, my work seems to obsess on maleness and masculinity, but really I'm just interested in the way that my own gender can be misled or misunderstood, and how our attempts to tackle those things impact friendships, relationships and family. I love to find the absurd in situations of high drama and the dramatic in moments of silliness.

tomslater.co

Sexy Nails, web series, 2020, premiered on YouTube and presently streaming on The Roku Channel

BIO

Tom is the writer/director behind Sexy Nails, a web series celebrating non-toxic masculinity where two best mates get their nails done together and talk about their relationships. After screening at festivals around the world including Series Fest, Cinequest and Stareable (where it won Best In Writing), Sexy Nails was acquired by Roku Originals where it currently streams in the US. Before making web series you’ve never heard of, Tom was an award-winning playwright, winning Qld Theatre Company’s Young Playwrights Award, and producer of short films, music videos and TVCs that have screened at SXSW, Tribeca, Sydney Film Festival and MIFF, won an Aria Award and been nominated for an AACTA. Tom has also been nominated for a Logie and can tell you hand on heart that nothing stings more than not winning a Logie. Tom is currently in development on a factual series based on Sexy Nails with a US streamer, writing a new series based on the death of his Dad, and playing (losing) a lot of online chess.

Damon Tabor

ARTIST STATEMENT

I've covered different subjects as a magazine writer – gold mining, ivory trafficking, border militias, nationalist biker gangs, cartels – and tried to deeply report each story, while conveying nuance and grappling with complicated, sometimes uneasy truths.

These are some of the publications where my articles have been published: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Harper's, Outside, and Men's Journal.

BIO

Damon Tabor’s work has focused on conflict, drug trafficking, black markets and the environment. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Outside, Wired, and Men’s Journal. His writing has been noted in Best American Travel Writing and his Rolling Stone article “Border of Madness” was the basis of the Academy Award-nominated 2015 documentary Cartel Land. Most recently, he produced The Trade, a five-part documentary about the heroin epidemic, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and aired on Showtime. He holds a Master’s of Science from Columbia Journalism School and is a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant. His forthcoming book, The Mountain in the Burning Sky (Penguin Random House), chronicles the early pioneering history of U.S. Forest Service smokejumpers—elite aerial wilderness firefighters—and their later involvement in covert CIA operations throughout the Cold War.

Jeanne Dorsey

ARTIST STATEMENT

In my plays I’ve explored adoption, cross dressing, mental illness, dissolution of family, the pain of intimacy, workplace politics, and the loneliness of making art. Whether comedy or drama, the through line in my work is women and girls navigating life in a man’s world. I use extensive research as a foundation from which to take imaginative leaps. There must always be an emotional connection to my subject matter. My style can vary from well-made to experimental. I overwrite, then cut back. What hovers between the lines can often be the most powerful. Even the darkest stories need comic relief.

The subject of my play is Martha Goddard, inventor of the rape kit. This is an image of the kit.

BIO

Jeanne Dorsey is a writer of plays, screenplays, teleplays, and essays. She was awarded a 2022 fellowship to Monson Arts in Monson Maine, the inaugural 2022 Room of One’s Own residency with the Bechdel Project, and a 2021 Sloan Commission, all in support of her play The Kit: Made by Martha. Her play A Little Bit of Forever received a 29-hour Equity workshop with the support of New Georges and was nominated by New Georges for the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her television pilot Highest and Best was a finalist for the Made in NY Writers Room television training program. Her play, Away Towards Home was nominated by George Street Playhouse for the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. It developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre and was included in the EST 2014 summer workshop series at The Space at Ryder Farm. Her play Footprints in The Snow was a semi-finalist for the 2017 Ashland New Play Festival. It was nominated by EST for the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn prize and was a semi-finalist for the O’Neill 2009 National Playwrights Conference. She wrote, directed, and produced the short film Blood from a Stoner that screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York and was an official selection in the 2015 Chain Film Festival, the 2014 Big Apple Film Festival, and the 2014 FilmColumbia festival in Chatham, New York. Blood From a Stoner is based on her play, which was produced by the Ensemble Studio Theatre in the 2009 EST Marathon.

https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/jeanne-dorsey


Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett

ARTIST STATEMENT

Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett are partners in both life and their creative endeavors. They construct dance works, films and research based practices aimed to disrupt assumptions of performance and personhood. We use movements such as shaking as a way of sifting through emotions that are held in the body, unison to play with gendered assumptions, repetition as a way to explore the physical and mental limits of our bodies, and stillness as a way to hold and shift time. In our current dance making practice, we’re interrogating our lineage and questioning the context of dance; while highlighting larger societal themes like late-stage capitalism, climate change, decaying infrastructure, accessibility, gatekeeping, performativity and community. Asking where, why and how does dance locate itself inside our bodies and our spaces?

Nattie Trogdon and Hollis Bartlett from our dance titled o fallen angel (2022) performed at Center for Performance Research

BIO

Hollis Bartlett (he/him) + Nattie Trogdon (she/her) are choreographers, performers, and partners based in Lenapehoking (currently known as Brooklyn, NY). Their collaborations have been presented at Gibney (Work Up Artists), CPR, Duo Multicultural Arts Center, No Theme Festival, Earthdance, Brick Alley Block Party at Garner Arts Center, The Long Time Texas, Motion State Dance Festival, Mobile Dance Film Festival, The Dance Complex, and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought. Their work has been supported through residencies at The Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Visionary, MOtiVE Brooklyn, Leimay Foundation, Mana Contemporary, and the Tisch Summer Dance Residency at NYU. Their performing and teaching practices are deeply tied into their dance making. As performers, they’ve worked mostly notably with Doug Varone, Kathy Westwater, Brian Brooks, Joanna Kotze, David Dorfman, and Keith Johnson. They’ve been guest artists at NYU, Swarthmore College, and SUNY Brockport and their work has been commissioned by Roger Williams University, University of Maryland, and Salem State University. Currently they are adjunct faculty at SUNY Purchase and Rutgers University, and teach open classes throughout NYC.

https://nattieandhollis.com