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Aspen Mays — Punched Out Stars 3, 2011
ASPEN MAYS
March 2012
Art Papers describes her work as standing "in deft opposition to the technology we have come to rely on for answers, putting faith not in complex databases and rapidly evolving technology, but rather in the ability of everyday objects and materials to spark our imagination." In doing so, she "re-imagines the world around us, finding new possibilities in the commonplace."
Born in Asheville, NC, and raised in Charleston, SC, Aspen Mays received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her solo exhibitions include Every Leaf on a Tree at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; From the Offices of Scientists at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Concentrate and Ask Again at Golden Gallery, Chicago. Mays was a 2009-2010 Fulbright Fellow in Santiago, Chile, where she worked with astronomers who are using the world’s most advanced telescopes to look at the sky. Mays is now based in Los Angeles, CA.
Shimon Attie — The Choir Men, 2006, from the series The Attraction of Onlookers
– Aberfan: An Anatomy of a Welsh Village
SHIMON ATTIE
October 2011 and March 2012
Shimon Attie’s work crosses over between a number of different media, including video, photography, performance, installation, and public art. His ongoing work attempts to engage local communities to find new ways of representing collective and personal history, memory, and identity. He brings public places to life, whether he remembers Jewish inhabitants in Berlin by projecting images of a former Jewish neighborhood onto contemporary buildings, as in The Writing on the Wall project, or asks immigrants to respond to questions about home in New York's Lower East Side as in Between Dreams and History. During his two-part residency, which will be completed in March, Shimon will prepare an outdoor video installation through the Urban Video Project.
Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Shimon Attie lived in Europe for seven years before moving to New York in the fall of 1997. He has exhibited widely in both the United States and Europe, including shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; and the Jewish Museum, New York.
Every year Light Work invites between twelve and fifteen artists to come to Syracuse to devote one month to creative projects. Over 360 artists have participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program, and many of them have gone on to achieve international acclaim.
The 2012 line-up of Artists-in-Residence includes: Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira, Aspen Mays, Justyna Badach, Claire Beckett, Michael Bühler-Rose, Raymond Meeks, Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman, Irina Rozovsky, Heidi Kumao, Sam Falls, John Chervinsky, and Brijesh Patel. We are now accepting applications for residencies in 2013.
The residency includes a $4,000 stipend, a furnished artist apartment, 24-hour access to our state-of-the-art facilities, and generous staff support. Work by each Artist-in-Residence is published in a special edition of Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual along with an essay commissioned by Light Work. Work by former Artists-in-Residence is also part of the Light Work Collection.
Applications to the AIR program are accepted throughout the year. Please see the How to Apply section for details on our facility and the application instructions. If you have any questions regarding the application process or the status of your application, please contact Light Work at Shane Lavalette at slavalet@syr.edu.
