RESIDENCY: THE ELEMENTS: FIRE

MARGO MAJEWSKA

HAGIT COHEN

SHOLEH ASGARY

CHRISTINA MCPHEE

key words:key words: TRANSPARENT HEART, IMMATERIAL EYE, REQUIEM, SEPARATION, DREAM STATE, RECEDE/RESEED, TENDER

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.

Microswarm Patchwalk (2016) by Christina McPhee
TRT: 8 minutes

HAGIT COHEN - MAIN ROOM

Hagit Cohen is a fine artist who works primarily with digital images, constructing visual scenes with photographic images and objects of ritual. In her work she explores the relations between human beings, nature, and spirt and the power of personal ritual to effect healing and change. Hagit holds an MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and serves on WEAD (Women Eco Artist Dialog) board of directors.

http://www.hagitcohen.com/

SHOLEH ASGARY - PROJECT ROOM

Sholeh Asgary is a visual artist born in Tehran, Iran and raised in the West Coast. A photographer, painter, lecturer and curator who resides in the Bay Area, her work utilizes the cross section between photography and painting; atmospheric spaces where the painted line and reproduced image merge. Asgary received her MFA in studio art from Mills College in 2011, and her BA in studio art from San Francisco State University in 2006. Her work has been shown in Montreal QC., New York, and the Bay Area, and curated into shows by Jennifer Blessing and Lucinda Barnes.

http://www.sholehasgary.com/

MARGO MAJEWSKA - PEW ROOM

Margo Majewska is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of media: architecture, video, drawing and installations. Born in Warsaw, Poland, she attended the Women’s School of Architecture and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw before moving to New York where she received a BFA with Honors from Parsons School of Design and a MArch from Columbia University. Margo’s professional interests began with the integration of art and architecture and gradually moved towards installation arts. Informed by her own immigrant experience, her work grapples with ideas of place, transformation, and identity. Navigating the space between cultures requires continuous shifts of self, and this balance--or imbalance--is at the root of her inquiries.

http://studiomajewska.com/

CHRISTINA MCPHEE - VIDEO TRANSMISSION

Christina McPhee was born in Los Angeles county, California in 1954. She attended Scripps College, Claremont, and later Kansas City Art Institute, where she earned a BFA in painting and printmaking (1976). She studied with Philip Guston at Boston University (MFA, painting, 1979). Her images move from within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects, emulating potential forms of life, in various systems and territories, and in real and imagined ecologies. Christina's work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art-Rhizome Artbase, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Storefront for Art and Architecture.

http://www.christinamcphee.net