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The New York Public Library
presents
An Artist Career Development Series Event
NYFA Drawing Fellows
Erin Brown in conversation with
Joseph Burwell, Marti Cormand, Adam Fowler,
Chris Nau, Ilene Sunshine, Margaret Inga Wiatrowski
Thursday May 10, 2012
6:00 P.m.
Corner Reading Room
1st Floor
The New York Public Library
Mid-Manhattan Library
5thAvenue at 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
The Corner Room opens to the public at 6:00 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
Pushing the boundaries of what it means to make a drawing is almost as challenging as finding a way to push one's way into the hectic and convoluted world of the New York Art scene. In this panel discussion, six New York Foundation for the Arts fellows talk about their experience in making their work and making a name for themselves as artists. Moderator and curator Erin Brown leads the discussion as the panelists share their strategies for success in applying for awards such as the NYFA fellowship, as well as balancing the application process with their studio practice, and generating interest in conceptually challenging work.
Curator Erin Brown received a BA in Media Arts and Sciences from Wellesley College, and studied art theory and curatorial practice at Parsons School of Design in Paris, and Yale University. Erin has curated shows at the Jewett Gallery in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and at Margaret Thatcher Projects in Chelsea, where she is currently the director. As a curator, she seeks to make contemporary art more accessible to viewers, by establishing connections to earlier idioms of making. Her writing has been published in Terminal Magazine, The Birch and many online publications.
Joseph Burwell uses playful tactics and absurdist sensibilities to compose altered historical narratives in his bright, punchy drawings. He has recently shown with Miyako Yoshinaga Arts Prospects in New York, and in group shows at the Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea; Eyelevel BQE, Brooklyn and Linge Roset, New York. He is one of the 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellows in drawing, and has had residencies at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workspace, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace. Joseph received his Masters of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tulane University.
Marti Cormand approaches the detritus of every day life with an eye for landscape and abstraction, creating drawings that utilize elements of trash as key pictorial players. Cormand, who is represented by Josee Bienvenu Gallery in New York, has exhibited at the Fundacio Arranz-Bravo, Spain; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut; and the Dallas Museum of Art among other venues. Reviews for his work have been published in Art Forum, Harpers Magaizine, BonArt and many others. A graduate of the University of Barcelona, Cormand lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Adam Fowler's intricate cut-paper drawings build layers of texture and density through their painstaking exactness. Represented by Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York and Brian Gross Gallery, San Francisco, Fowler has exhibited widely, including in the Museum of Arts and Design 2009 exhibition Slash: Paper Under the Knife. His work has been featured in numerous group shows, including exhibitions at The Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; and the 2005 Selections show at The Drawing Center, New York. Reviews for Fowler’s drawings have appeared in The New York Times, The Harvard Review, The Village Voice, The San Francisco Chronicle and Sculpture Magazine. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Fowler currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Chris Nau received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds a BFA from the University of Washington. Recent exhibitions include the Tegnerforbundet Galleri (Oslo’s Drawing Center) in Norway and Dieu Donné, The Drawing Center and Dam Stuhltrager Gallery in New York as well as the G.A.S. - Station Project Space in Berlin. Upcoming shows include the Peter Miller Gallery and The Suburban project space, both in Chicago. Nau is a 2010 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a 2011 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing. Nau works in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture. He uses the language of abstraction to describe transformative shifts between growth and destruction. Trapping this transformation in an image and/or form as a means to describe the instability of all things is the endpoint of each of Nau's pieces.
Ilene Sunshine lives and works in New York City. Her work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, and Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, and included in many group exhibitions at venues such as: Mixed Greens, NYC, Amateras Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria and Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2011, Sunshine was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing and a Workspace Residency at Dieu Donné Papermill, NYC. She has also had residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, and Soaring Gardens. Her work is in various collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. Sunshine received a BFA degree (Sculpture) with honors from Boston University's School of Fine Arts.
Margaret Inga Wiatrowski's work is the result of a fascination with obsolescence– in-between spaces in the midst of falling apart, non-places, unraveling landscapes where meaning shifts, and memory fails. Her semi-abstract scenes teeter between delicacy and disorder and are rendered directly, without mediation, with ink on paper- a medium as anachronistic and ephemeral as the content it represents. Born in Wroclaw, Poland, she received a BA in Literature from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2001 and a Master of Science in Design from Pratt Institute in 2004. Most recently, she has exhibited work at Red Roots Gallery, Rabbithole Gallery and Nurture Art Gallery in New York; and has been featured in publications such as Diffusion Magazine and Reframing Photography (Photographic Theory and Practice). She has also taken part in artists projects at Work Gallery in Dumbo and “The Work Office” sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She lives and works in New York City.
Initiated and organized by Arézoo Moseni, Artist Career Development Series have addressed the growing needs and concerns of independent creative workforce in New York City since 2006.
Joseph Burwell, Marti Cormand, Adam Fowler, Chris Nau, Ilene Sunshine and Margaret Inga Wiatrowski are 2011 Artist Fellowship recipients of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program, funded with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
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