Resident Artists
CURRENT RESIDENT ARTISTS
Brian DePauli
Brian DePauli will be working in a new series weaving together animation, painting and embroidery during his residency at The Luminary. Brian’s work is a tongue-in-cheek take on naturalistic landscape painting with real and imagined confrontations played out in the struggle to survive. His work has been featured widely at White Flag Projects, the Berkeley Art Center and Boots Contemporary Art Space.
Amanda Pfister
Amanda Pfister will be continuing her photographic series exploring how economic forces impact our sense of place. Currently focused on closed banks and car dealerships, the large format photographs document the built environment, but also the matter-of-fact relation of the global economic structure to our experience of the environment.
Amy Reidel
Amy Reidel will be exploring an ongoing series blurring weather radar imagery and emotional patterns. Ranging from video and installation work to painting and mixed-media, the work is an evolving diagnosis and self-reflexive study on the human psyche as explored through meterology.
Carlie Trosclair
Carlie Trosclair will be continuing her textile environments which aim to engineer a viewer’s experience of interior space in order to explore the boundaries of knowledge and the possibilities of imagination. Dwelling on the primacy of tactile experiences as a means to construct reality, her immersive installations engage the body and space directly.
PAST 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.
At the conclusion of her residency, Christina will be pursuing her Museum Studies at RISD.
Meredith Foster
Meredith’s work during her six month residency is a poetic meditation on space. Using paper cutouts and silhouettes to explore the representation of negative space–the alleys between houses, the air around the building–the work builds to greater effect in relation to the current trends of abandonment and foreclosure that surrounds any dialogue on space. The stark silhouettes bring the viewer into relation to the forgotten liminal spaces that remain undescribed.
Stephen Hoskins
During his six month residency, 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.
Stephen’s residency will culminate in a solo exhibition at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.
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.”
