Resident Artists
CURRENT RESIDENT ARTISTS
During his six month residency at The Luminary, Paul will be focusing on a new series of relief prints & drawings. His artwork continues the traditions of printmaking that deal with sociopolitical themes and aspects of the human condition. In his recent work, he has been looking to our nation’s currency as a starting point for subject matter. He will be exploring various drawing & printmaking techniques and printing locally at All Along Press.
Christina Choe
Pulling from a background in visual art, music, art history, business, and education, Christina has a strong interest in equipping young artists through building art programs for individualized portfolio development, schools, museums, and community organizations.
Currently, her interests in the arts involve exploring the overlap in compositional arrangement of music and the visual arts in pairing basic elements such as sound and color. In recent years, her exploration of German exile artists has fostered research into personal and family connections to dislocation and sentimentality of place and object. Reflecting her mother’s North Korean heritage, her process of artist discovery attempts to connects these ideas to her personal experiences and understanding of physical and emotional loss.
Her studio/instruction space is built on the premise of the open door and free instruction to the community.
“An artist should give of oneself. It’s important to give, to share, to reflect on the human condition, our finite existence, life, pain, death, all of these things …A creative profession is an honor and a privilege. Adding something to the universe that’s creating beauty is an amazing thing.”
Richard Yongjae O’Neill, Violist & UCLA Music professor – Korea Times
Stephen Hoskins
As a recent Washington University MFA graduate, Stephen will be continuing his ReView series that reflect on concepts of recognition and perception. The subjects represented are two friends of the artist, who are described and re-viewed in varying degrees in multiple pieces. The work investigates the reworking of facial features and physical descriptors in an attempt to reference the artist’s perceived experience. It also considers different methods to describe the same subject through multiple functions of color, light, line, and shape. The figural paintings address the instability in using static representations of a dynamic subject. The works explore the relationship between what one learns and what one remembers of the subject represented and what is left unrevealed.
Brea is the Program and Development Director at The Luminary. She is the primary photographer for Brea Photography and is a creative and diverse artist working in photography, painting on photography, mixed-media, and three-dimensional assemblages.
A photographer by profession, Brea brings a more compositional approach to her layered, symbolic mixed-media work. Her work is a meditation on natural phenomenon and the interaction of man with nature. Spare and thoughtful, the works vibrate with the tensions between each element—vibrant color and faded texture, found elements and detailed ink drawing—each a world unto itself elegantly composed. The works seem otherworldly, divested of history and context, and placed into a new narrative in which we are all oddly implicated.
PAST RESIDENT ARTISTS
Christine is a recent graduate of Washington University’s MFA Program, with a specialty in drawing. During her residency at The Luminary, she will be creating a site-specific installation using paper bags as a painted, backlit canvas to cover the arched ceiling and walls of our 500 square foot installation space. Her dense, symbolically linked drawings bring to mind a systematic world of networks, technology, and mobility.
For his two month Summer Residency, Bryan will be working on a combination of oil paintings and sculptural objects that look to have a dialogue between each other about the confines and constructs that we use to create individual identity. Ultimately, the body of work will then act as an intellectual facilitator for the physical interaction between the viewer and the art itself. In the moment of engagement between viewers and the work lies the instant in which it comes to its complete fulfillment.
Simiya Sudduth
During her two month Summer Residency, Simiya created a series of mobile/transportable gardens as an interaction between the experience of site-specific installation and the universality of ecological engagement.
Phil Bosch
For her two-month residency, Dutch filmmaker Phil Bosch will be documenting the story of the Pruit-Igoe Housing Complex in North St. Louis through interviews with former residents and neighbors. Through documentary footage and personal interaction with the residents, she will recreate the process that led to the demolition of the archetypally modern structures whose demolition postmodern philosopher Charles Jenks describes as “the day that Modernism died.”
