Helen Montage Farrell, Troy ceramic, Mask	Ijosé Benin, Toronto, Canada BLOOM/DOOM, detail from the FLOAT painting and video series
Chris Moran, Scotia wood, plexi, India ink, stamped text on paper, carving, screws, Bedtime Story	Linda Butti, Staten Island diptych, oil and mixed media on wood, Chapel in the Woods
Anya Belyat Giunta, Toulouse, France etched copper plates, 58 Immigrants, Displaced	Colleen O’Donnell, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ceramic, Standing Figures

2002 Artists in Residence

Each summer the Fulton Street Gallery sponsors an artists in residence program, open to artists around the world. Some artists may be continuing a series of work already begun and will bring their own materials. Others will develop new work during their stay. The public is invited to drop in and visit with the artists as they work from noon to 5 p.m. each weekday. Join us on Friday evenings from 5–7 p.m., for a welcoming and farewell celebration to the artists whose results from each week will be on view.

The Howard Bush Foundation has underwritten parts of this program. Artists from the 2001 summer residencies were: Dana Rudolph, Troy; Chris Moran, Scotia,; Jennifer Pepper, Alfred, New York; Abraham Ferraro, Albany; Mary Baker, Troy; and Mary Maziotti, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The artists for 2002 are:

We, at Fulton Street Gallery, have watched Helen's work develop over the past four years. Helen has always been a mixed media artist, a fiber artist, and a painter. She has recently evolved into a ceramic artist and sculptor, as well. While best known for her functional ceramic work, her new work includes the spiritual and transgender themes, which are always at the heart of her work. Helen will be producing a new series of sculptures while at the gallery. Drop in and talk with her for she has been on an amazing journey.

A painter, video-maker and writer, Ijosé Benin currently lives in Canada. In his work, the artist touches on that shadowy junction between futility and hope, release and suffocation. Through the use of repetitive imageries and tempo, including repetitive sounds and continuous play. Ijosé works play with the themes of death rebirth, flight and slipping identity: the desire to be born again. During her residency, the artist will produce a virtual exhibition of flowers — Bloomwall — in the red room.

 

“Here lies a not well person.” “She can’t get her head out of bed.” “Put it to rest.” Working with poet Dianne Collins Ouellette’s words, Chris will continue her collaboration with this artist, begun with the chap book SEVERAL SUMMERS in a new series of work culminating in an “about collaboration” workshop. Although sculptural in appearance, Chris refers to her works as mixed media construction and has been an exhibiting and teaching artist for many years in the Capital District.

Linda is a painter whose work has tactile and emotional qualities related to personal memories and places. While her work is intimate and genuine, it also has maturity and depth and is rich in independent imagery. Meditation and spirituality themes have surfaced in her work over the last twenty-five years. Widely exhibited, her work is in many public and corporate art collections. A MFA graduate of Brooklyn College, she is presently an art history professor at Staten Island Community College.

Anya produces her artwork about displacement while she is traveling and moving or in being supplanted herself. Her ongoing series, “58 Immigrants, Displaced,” shows a connectedness with ordinary people and a remarkable sensitivity and understanding of the human condition. Inspired by a true story of immigrants from China — the works’ final destination will be that country. She’ll be leaving France on a cargo boat in mid July and will use lithography and photolithographic processes during her trip. The results we will be on view at the gallery during her residency.

A graduate student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Colleen embraces the language of form and technique through sculpture. Her work focuses on the movement and expression of the human figure and are a product of life experiences and social awareness. She will bring an exhibit of figurative bronze sculptures and drawings to Fulton Street and will do a presentation of the process of casting in bronze through samples and a video from foundries, including the Johnson Atelier, where she was an apprentice.

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