Ernesto Gómez
Milledgeville, Georgia
June 11, 2009 - June 30, 2009
Ernesto is originally from Highland, Michigan. He earned his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an emphasis in sound, installation and instrument building. He has performed in many experimental and standard rock ensembles. Currently, he is enrolled in the Sculpture MFA program at The University of Georgia in Athens and is employed as a Graduate Research Assistant for ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration). He lives in Milledgeville, Georgia with his wife, Emily.
Dakota Gearhart
Safety Harbor, Florida
May 7, 2009 - June 23, 2009
website | dakotagearhart dot com
Dakota Gearhart is a photographer, installation artist, and tactile bookmaker who also works with sound and performance from Safety Harbor, Florida.
Erika Villarreal
Lafayette, Indiana
May 28, 2009 - June 16, 2009
Erika works across media, including: sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, and installation. She's currently working on her MFA at Purdue in Lafayette, Indiana.
Valerie Powell
May 15, 2009 - June 16, 2009
website | valerie powell dot com
Valerie makes installations with shrinky-dinks, as well as paintings, crafts, and multiples.
Jeanne Stern
Austin, Texas
May 14, 2009 - June 16, 2009
website | jeanne stern dot com
Jeanne Stern creates surreal microcosms using animation, clockwork, puppet films and dioramas. Her work has shown at festivals, television, and galleries including the Smithsonian, PBS, SXSW, the Orlando Museum of Art, Texas State Art Gallery, Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams, and the San Diego Women's Film Festival. She received her MFA in film from the University of Texas, and her BA in Studio Art & Computer Science from Connecticut College. In 2007 she received a commission from the Connecticut College Arts & Technology Symposium for which she produced a short stereoscopic film. She continued her exploration of stereoscopy during her residency at Elsewhere where she made a series of stereoscopic works. Her stereoscopic works were shown at her solo show "Shadow Tiger," at Texas State University in 2009. Jeanne lives in Austin TX where she works as a freelance animator.
Adam Brody
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
April 2, 2009 - May 5, 2009
myspace | the great swamp
Adam Chad Brody is a music & performance maker. He is the band leader of The Great Swamp, a theatrical rock group based in Philadelphia, PA. He is also a member Cha-cha'razzi, a South Philly art/studio space that hosts events and such. He received an Edward Albee Fellowship for Writing in 2008 and has written & produced two plays for the Philly Fringe Festival.
Steve Beatty
Portland, Oregon
April 2, 2009 - April 28, 2009
Steven Beatty was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 1966. He is an interdisciplinary artist and teacher living and working in Portland, Oregon. His work addresses environmental and social issues, and includes mixed media, sculpture, installation, public intervention, painting, digital photography, material exploration lectures and collaborations with Portland-based artist, Laurel Kurtz. He received his BA from Humboldt State University, 2002 and his MFA from Portland State University, 2006. He has shown work internationally in Liverpool UK, Ulsan Korea, and Stuttgart Germany and the west and east coasts of the United States. Beatty won the 2006 International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award in Hamilton, NJ and his work was shown in Sculpture Magazine.
Laurel Kurtz
Portland, Oregon
April 2, 2009 - April 28, 2009
Laurel Kurtz is in her second year at Portland State University’s (PSU) Art and Social Practice program. Kurtz earned a BA from PSU in Fine Art/Sculpture. Kurtz often works collaboratively and some of her past works include working with Avalon Kalin and the local NW Dowser, Mike Doney; Sandy Sampson and Kurtz created a public speaking platform that was influenced by their involvement in Toastmasters; Kurtz and Steven Beatty have an on-going collaborative practice involving plastic bottle caps collected from the community. They have traveled to the East coast and overseas to the UK with their bottle caps. Most recently, Kurtz is working with Bill Harrelson, a neighbor, to create a back scratcher museum. Kurtz’s work focuses on the social as a vehicle to highlight people and issues of interest and relevance in a community.
Marc Israel
Northampton, Maine
April 2, 2009 - April 8, 2009
video | vimeo dot com slash marc israel
Filmmaker Marc Israel from Northampton, Massachusetts writes- “ a brief statement regarding myself: Somewhere along the line somebody took off my head and stuck it on a ballerina. I feel incredibly disproportional as a result, and make films to balance out the difference. Most of the time I feel like screaming, 1/3 of the rest of the time like crying, and the remaining time allotment is spent holding up daisies in solidarity with some crazy woman or singer that maketh the heart tremble and pound. I laugh over spilled milk, if it's done right. Timing is everything. I value friends and inherently have a distrust of heads of state. I come from sour beginnings but toil daily to be ready and glad for the sweetened earth.”
Rob Hamilton
Rob Hamilton / Building Curator is a carpenter, builder, maker, doer, radical educator and secret agent. He has worked at Elsewhere since 2009. As Building Curator, he oversees the Skyshop, supports and collaborates with resident artists, ensures safety protocols, manages the historic renovation of Elsewhere's building, and keeps it from falling down in the meantime.
Douglas Kelley
Douglas Kelley is a New York City artist, writer, commentator, and consummate talking TV head, philosopher and a connoisseur of esoteric history as regards American political or electoral events. A prolific documentarian he was also an Elsewhere artist-in-residence in the fall of 2008 where he co-hosted with George Sheer the 2008 election between Barack Obama and that other guy, the loser. He also is a well-known critic, arch art essayist, a freelance curator and a promoter of artists with an interest in politics. Personally he predicts a tighter closer race than that between George W. Bush and Albert Gore in the year 2000 and expects the election to end up in the courts."
Residency Fall 2008; Political Party 2012
Alex Wolkowitcz
Liverpool, England
August 7, 2008 - September 16, 2008
website | studio wolcowicz dot com
Alexandra Wolkowicz is a Polish/German photography and artist currently doing a residency in Liverpool. Her work explores themes about our relationship with the world and how we share it with each other and living things. Essentially tactile and documentary, her work springs from her experience with photography, performance, theatre and the creation of unique representations of places, things and histories which move her. She works with still and moving imagery, often with the addition of sound. Her intervention with things and situations found is to alter, adjust, and reconstruct the familiar in order to create moving, thought-provoking and poetic representations. Her working practice is often collaborative and multidisciplinary, choosing to select media appropriate to the aesthetics and content of a particular piece. She has traveled widely and has worked with artists and in residencies in Europe, North America and Asia.
