RESIDENCY: THE ELEMENTS: WATER

SYLVIA FEIN

CARA LEVINE

SIMONE BAILEY

NINA ZURIER

First Friday Reception 5-9pm

With Special Performance by Simone Bailey at 7:30

Final Day Closing, October 8, 1-5pm
Workshop/Ritual by Cara Levine at 4pm

key words: BLIND PASSAGE, DURATION, CROSSING THE ABYSS, RECEIVED KNOWLEDGE, RECLAMATION

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.

one two three (four) - video by Nina Zurier
TRT: 2 minutes

music: "Ring Around the Moon. A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now Phase 2: One, Two, Three, Four –X, Y, Zee" by Harry Partch, courtesy of New World Records: newworldrecords.org

SYLVIA FEIN - MAIN ROOM

Sylvia Fein is a surrealist painter born in 1919 in Milwaukee. She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe. Fein paints exclusively in egg tempera, which she mixes herself. Fein painted from her teenage years through 1973; she then took a break from painting and wrote two books--Heidi's Horse, an analysis of the development of her daughter's drawing throughout childhood, and First drawings: Genesis of Visual Thinking, which is about the basic patterns that appear throughout human art, both historically and during childhood development. Fein began painting again in the early 2000s, and had a retrospective of both her recent and earlier work at Krowswork in 2014.

www.sylviafeinpainter.net

SIMONE BAILEY - PROJECT ROOM

Simone Bailey’s video- and performance-centric practice focuses on ephemerality and perception while analyzing the impulse to grasp the intangible through a technique she identifies as disembodied poetics. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts.

CARA LEVINE - PEW ROOM

Cara Levine is an artist exploring the intersections of the physical, metaphysical, traumatic and illusionary through sculpture, video and photography. She received her MFA from CCA in 2012 and has shown work in various places including the Wattis Center for Contemporary Art in San Francisco, The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv. Cara is also a long time yoga and meditation practitioner, and has worked closely with a hypnotherapist for over 6 years and as a migraineur uses hypnosis and biofeedback to move her headaches. She believes in the untapped wisdom and potential of the body. 

www.caralevine.com

NINA ZURIER - VIDEO TRANSMISSION

Nina Zurier is a photographer whose photographs also take the form of conceptual art, books, sculpture, or video. She studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at the San Francisco Art Institute. She was born in Detroit in the 1950s and lives and works in Berkeley and Iceland. She thinks of her work like poetry, similarly suggestive and image-driven, fragmentary.

www.ninazurier.com