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­­ELSEWHERE COLLABORATIVE WELCOMES JULY VISITING ARTISTS WITH GREAT FANFARE

June 24, 2010

Caroline Mak
July 1 - August 3
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship artist

Caroline Mak is an installation and mixed media artist based in New York and Hong Kong. She received her bachelor's degree in biology from Stanford University (2002) and her MFA from the University of Chicago (2005). She has been the recipient of an Emerging Artist Fellowship from Socrates Sculpture Park, and is currently participating in the residency program at Gallery Aferro, Newark, NJ. Exhibition highlights include the installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Islip Art Museum, NY, 'Mirage' at Hong Kong Art Fair 08 and a collaborative project at New Life Gallery, Berlin. In addition to making artwork she is one of the co-founders of Brooklyn Soda Works and enjoys sharing her fizzy beverages with thirsty people. www.carolinemak.com
www.brooklynsodaworks.blogspot.com

Issac Nichols
July 1 - August 3

Isaac Nichols is an artist living and working in NYC.  Currently attending The Cooper Union, his work investigates the human condition in the contexts of the contemporary, the commercial, the economic and the institution.  His work often relies on a juxtaposition between economic classes, and their cultural and physical manifestations.  This framework allows for a practice actively engaged in the production and exploration of objects, events, curations, documents, and performance.
Currently Isaac is working on a performance documentation involving a Plymouth Voyager, as well as a series of publications challenging the relationship between education, capitalism, and the institution.


Hannah Nichols
July 1 - July 27

Generally I don’t define myself as an artist. I don’t like to think of the things I make as art, rather I consider everything I do to be art.  I think it is problematic to differentiate between art and life.  Being strictly/solely an artist to me leads to an accumulation of objects, status makers, creating as a justification of oneself.  I strive to not let my objects define me as an artist, instead I hope that my actions everyday define me as such.  When I am creating an art, (art as noun) I exert the same energy, dedication, and discipline as when cooking bread or serving tables at work.  Instead of being critical within my art, I try to make every decision critically.  With this in mind, I strive to work in many mediums as a way of working at my ultimate goal, cultivating joy.  Can I say I work in the medium of fun?  Throughout my life, I have been in search and pursuit of wonder, the bumper sticker “why do it if its not fun” comes to mind, but to me that's a backwards and lazy outlook.  Rather “why not create fun”, or better “lets make the most fun”.  I strongly value a sense of community, partnership, collaboration.  Wherever I find myself living, family dinner has become a staple of my lifestyle.  Action speaks louder than art.
I just poured a cup of tea, it’s tag reads “be so happy that when others see you they become happy too”, seems oddly appropriate to end here.  

Annie Blazer
July 8 - August 10

Annie Blazer is a scholar of American culture.  She received her PhD in 2009 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Religion and Culture.  For the past two years, Annie has been teaching classes on religion and popular culture at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.  In the fall, she will be moving to Princeton, NJ as a Research Fellow at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion.  While at Princeton, Annie will complete her forthcoming book, Faith on the Field: Sports, Gender, and Evangelicalism.  As a scholar, Annie is interested in anthropologically investigating how people make meanings and how late capitalist consumerism affects these meanings.  At Elsewhere, Annie will explore this relationship by observing how artists use American consumer culture creatively.

Norah Hoover
July 8 - August 3

Norah grew up in the central valley of California and arrived in Portland OR in 2004. She earned a BFA in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BA in Studio Art from Reed College. Her work - sound -and light-making costumes created from and found materials - draws on her suburban upbringing, her background as a dancer, and training as in a many-tiered process of finding, organizing, and reconstituting discarded materials. The clothes are performances rather than objects, gathers of materials created to ignite and abstract moving bodies when recorded with a camera or a microphone.  www.norahoover.com -website www.diamond-status.tumblr.com - blog

 

Rebecca Greene
July 8 - July 27

Rebecca Rose Greene is a wild animal from Brockton, MA. Her natural habitat is Jamaica Plain but has been sighted as far away as the Hawaiian Islands. She uses her Hawk like eyes to find discarded materials with which to build. She has been known to employ her Owl vision to find them at night. Her keen Wolf-like send of smell helps her to sniff out inspiration (and phonies). She is sweet like a chubby Chinchilla. But be careful, if you cross her she can snap and initiate a fatal death roll. All done with the ferocity of a pregnant she-croc guarding her nest. Crikey!


Michelle Thursz
July 29 - August 10

Michele Thursz is an independent curator and consultant based in New York City. In 1999 she co-founded and directed Moving Image Gallery [MIG], NYC. MIG was one of the first galleries to show contemporary artist that use electronic and computer-based mediums. Her current actions are under the umbrella of The Post Media Network; Post Media is a term and action demonstrating the continuous evolution of uses of media and its effect on artists practice, and culture.

Post Media Network acts as a source for creative industries, cultural institutions, and collections internationally. Her recent curatorial projects include Bulletin Board Café, 193 Institute, KY, Meme: Romanticism, EFA Gallery, NY, Thread, Wood Street Gallery, Pattern: Modernism as Mediator, Borusan Gallery, Istanbul, Cine-O-matic, The New Museum, public.exe: Public Execution, Exit Art, NYC, and Democracy is Fun, White Box, NYC. Thursz's actions and exhibits have been reviewed and featured in the New York Times, Forbes Best of the Web, ArtByte, Wired, Art Forum, and many international periodicals and web publications.

 

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