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Yeon Ji Yoo, The Fight, 2012 (detail)
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Nova Jiang
Sunroom Project Space | July 8—August 19, 2012
One of two Van Lier Visual Artist Fellows, Nova Jiang is concerned with fostering a sense of community and creates situations that allow people to relate in unexpected ways. Her work explores the evolving definition of public space, and her goal is to create new participatory models of creation. She aims to inspire people’s curiosity about each other as well as their everyday surroundings through play, often transforming strangers into collaborators. Jiang developed her Sunroom Project during the second session of the Winter Workspace (February 14 – March 25). |
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Cameron Rowland
Sunroom Project Space | July 8—August 19, 2012
Cameron Rowland is one of the two Van Lier Visual Artist Fellows in 2012. His work engages with architecture and explores the notion of site specificity by considering a combination of the natural features and cultural context of a place. His previous installations have treated the exhibition space as both site and subject, using photographic set-ups and architectural models built by the artist himself. For his Sunroom Project, Rowland is interested in addressing the relationship between the gallery space and the natural landscape that surrounds it. As a Van Lier Fellow, he participated in the second session of the Winter Workspace Program (February 14 – March 25) and developed his Sunroom Project during that time. |
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Crystal Z. Campbell
Sunroom Project Space | September 1—October 14, 2012
Crystal Z. Campbell will create a site-specific installation that engages with the history of Wave Hill’s gardens and the surrounding Bronx community. Campbell is conducting archival research and consulting with local historians on Wave Hill’s history and site. Having been built in 1843 exactly two decades before the abolition of slavery in 1863, Wave Hill is of particular interest to the artist as she investigates its past to find clues on heroism, power and nationality through mediations of the land. Campbell’s project will be a rethinking of the utility, politic and economy of the public garden and will consist of modified archival forms, sound, image and sculptural ephemera. |
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Yeon Ji Yoo
Sunroom Project Space | September 1—October 14, 2012
Yeon Ji Yoo’s work explores the cyclical transfer of nutrients, memories, histories, genetic legacies and life’s acquisitions from one being to another over generations. The artist will create a sculptural installation in the Sun Porch, titled The Fight, an imaginary woodland environment composed of translucent trees, flora, dying fauna (beasts) and diabolical roots. The project investigates the aftermath of the actions of human interference on natural surroundings that will eventually be recovered and overgrown again by microorganisms and various species populations through succession. In this way, The Fight explores ideas regarding the natural cycles of death, decay, renewal and growth. |
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Gail Biederman
Sunroom Project Space | October 20—December 2, 2012
Gail Biederman is interested in mapping, topography and patterns of growth, whether natural or artificial. She sees both types of environments—natural and built—as having a strange similarity; just as highways and roads expand, vines creep up the sides of old mansions in continual growth. For her Sunroom project, Biederman will create a net-like map made of commercial and handmade felt that reflects the topography of the Bronx and is suspended from the ceiling. Referencing the local environment, the handmade felt will incorporate natural elements, such as leaves, vines and sticks from Wave Hill’s gardens. The piece would transform the typical flatness of maps, altering the urban streets of the Bronx into a vibrant and evocative form. |
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