RESIDENCY: THE ELEMENTS: EARTH

MARGARET FABRIZIO

MIRIAM DYM

LEISEL WHITLOCK

JOHANNA POETHIG

key words: MATERIAL LABOR, NEW GEOGRAPHIES,INSTINCTUAL KNOWING, REMEMBERING, FUTURE GROUNDING

The 2016 Krowswork Residency program presents four month-long cycles of three artists in the space at a time, plus a video by a fourth artist shown in the gallery as well as streamed online (see video at right).

The residency cycle follows the elements:
AIR, EARTH, FIRE, WATER
and focuses on four concepts:
BODY, ALTAR, SANCTUARY, TRANSMISSION.

MUSIC OF THE LOST CITIES by Johanna Poethig
2016
TRT: 30 minutes
(music by Chris Brown)

MARGARET FABRIZIO - MAIN ROOM

After a career as a concert harpsichordist on the international stage and as music music faculty at Stanford University for 25 years, artist Margaret Fabrizio saw an exhibition of kawandi (quilts) made by the Siddi women of Karnataka. She was so inspired that she went into the forests of India and spent two weeks with the Siddi women learning their style of hand sewing these improvised non-pieced quilts using scraps and recycled clothing. She returned the following year, taking some of her own work to share with them. Since then she has returned a number of times, and has had two solo shows of kawandi, one at Visions Art Museum in San Diego, and one at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. She is also a collage artist, videographer, maker of Artist Books, painter, forester on her land in Sonoma, and many other things.  

http://www.margaretfabrizio.com/

LEISEL WHITLOCK - PROJECT ROOM

Leisel Whitlock is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area, but was raised in New Orleans. Much of her new work is influenced by the contradictions found in a typical southern Louisiana landscape-the natural beauty, the sound, and the joy juxtaposed with the reminders of the complicated realities of being human. Leisel's work spans a diverse range of media that includes video, audio, still photography, installation, sculpture, and text. She studied at the Welch School of Art & Design, Atlanta, GA and later obtained her M.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

http://www.leiselw.com/

MIRIAM DYM - PEW ROOM

Miriam Dym is an artist, designer, entrepreneur, self-taught engineer and systems thinker.As an artist, Dym has long worked in the key of design, creating hybrid and disruptive objects, including functional items that are treated as art (e.g., not used for their function) and art made to have functionality. Recently, Dym transformed her long-held alter ego, Dym Products, into an actual corporation. Using business strategy, she focuses on the strange human traits of liking to make and to buy stuff, and to generate shocking volumes of toxins and trash. 

http://www.dymproducts.com/

JOHANNA POETHIG - VIDEO TRANSMISSION

Johanna Poethig is a visual, public and performance artist who has exhibited internationally and has been actively creating public art works, murals, paintings, sculpture and multimedia installations for over 25 years. She was raised in the Philippines through high school and has lived in Chicago, San Francisco and Oakland since coming to the United States. She received her BFA at University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA at Mills College. She has produced and participated in performance events that mix feminism, global politics, costume, props, cabaret, experimental music, and video.

http://johannapoethig.com/