South Fork Artists

www.bastienneschmidt.com

Artist statement
The project “Grids and Threads” is a minimalist meditation on the concept of white space and it’s perception. It is inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s “Three Standard Stoppages,” in which three imaginary measuring devices underline the arbitrariness to qualify and quantify something. On one hand, conceptual photography is used in a series of installations where the sense of scale becomes a riddle. Objects and colorful markers are photographed in the snow from a bird’s eye perspective, using the white environment as a blank canvas. The installations were built with recycled fabrics and colored threads. It is a continuation of Schmidt’s artistic search for concepts of space and systems that define them, which she originally showcased in her book Topography of Quiet. 

I will be creating for the Drive-By-Art project an ephemeral outside installation with bamboo, strings and thread, going back to my childhood in Greece, which inspired me to work with old and recycled materials. 

Biography
Bastienne Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, painting and large-scale drawings. She was born in Germany, raised in Greece and Italy, and has lived in New York for the past 20 years. Her art work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NewYork, International Center of Photography, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, among others. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally in over 100 exhibitions among them International Center of Photography in New York, Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, among many others. She has published seven monographs, among them Vivir la Muerte, American Dreams, Shadowhome, Home Stills, Topography of Quiet,Typology of Women and Grids and Threads. She was the Artist in Residence at Parrish Art Museum in 2017. In 2018, she was awarded a residency at the Watermill Center. In 2019, she was chosen to be part of the Parrish Art Museum exhibition “Artists Choose Artists.” Photography and art fall for Schmidt into the realm of archeology, exploring layers of history and meaning, and reassigning value to them. Schmidt was born in Munich, Germany and moved at the age of 9 with her family to Greece. She spent her childhood surrounded by her father’s archeological work, which instilled in her a desire to organize, map, and attempt to understand systems through her artwork. She is interested in the documentation and creation of artifacts that carry the patina of memory, history, and time. Schmidt’s process relates often to the use of humble materials such as muslin fabric, strings and thin transparent paper, that is subsequently painted and drawn upon. Paper offers an intuitive process, which allows for overlapping and organic coming together of spaces. Geometric forms such as circles, triangles and squares play a role in her work, such as the use of typologies as an artistic tool.

www.christinesciulli.net

Artist Statement
Light can be voluminously fierce, subtly ethereal, and deftly determined. Its ability to envelop us humans is primal, transcending language and culture. From my earliest memories catching light has been my main preoccupation. Held in this state of suspension we have to carry on. Forced through the lens of the mundane we can find the profound.

Biography
Christine Sciulli is a visual artist whose primary medium is projected light.

Her projection installations have been shown in the US and abroad including the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2014 Invitational Exhibition, Guild Hall Museum, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Parrish Art Museum, Islip Art Museum, South Fork Museum of Natural History, Edward Hopper House Art Center, and Cologne’s MAKK (part of 2018 Collumina Light Festival), as well as in International light and music festivals (Responsive/Halifax Canada and Evi Lichtungen/Hildesheim Germany). In 2019, Sciulli mounted SUBSUME at the Herron Art Gallery; Phosphene Dreams at Guild Hall Museum; and was commissioned by Dalhousie Art Gallery and NSCAD to create the site-specific large scale work Breath of the Sea with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Sciulli’s solo show ROIL was shown at Brooklyn’s Smack Mellon Gallery in early 2016 and was awarded a Lighting Award (UK) and Lumen Citation from the Illuminating Engineering Society.  She was the recipient of a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant for her public art project Intercepting Planes X and commissioned by the Global Poverty Project to create her installation, Expanding Circles, projected from above onto 2,500 people, for the 2013 Global Citizen Festival. She holds an MFA/BFA from Hunter College and Bachelor  of Architectural Engineering from Penn State University.

www.brucemsherman.com

Artist Statement
For this unique exhibition and time we are living through, I’ve composed a tableau of ceramic objects that express the deeply needed sense of Prayer: prayer for our loved ones, ourselves, and all beings. With a newly emerged sense of connectedness on and with our planet, one must sense what the Earth is trying to communicate to us: how injured its elements—our air, oceans, rivers, trees, animals; all things—have become.

This grouping of endless columns, covered in incised eyes, might act as a bridge, petitioning for healing and compassionate forces from above. In the foreground, two ceramic elements rest close to the earth. A large broken vase, once decorated with trees, lies fractured and incomplete; nearby, a blue head observes, seeing and sensing all in our concerning situation.

Biography
Bruce M. Sherman lives and works in New York. He has held solo exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York; South Willard, Los Angeles; Kaufmann Repetto, Milan; and Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels (two person). Sherman has been included in group exhibitions at Aldrich Contemporary, Ridgefield, CT; The Power Station, Dallas, TX; Marianne Boesky Gallery, Brennan and Griffin, Front Desk Apparatus, and Regina Rex, New York, NY; Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON; Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR; Museo Regional Michoacano, Morelia, Mexico; Thomas Duncan Gallery and The Pit, Los Angeles, CA; among others. Work by Sherman was recently included in Object & Thing presented at the Independent Art Fair.on.

www.sabinastreeterart.com

Artist Statement
Sabina Streeter is a contemporary artist who draws with a vision that transcends political, social and economic boundaries. Her portraits, which are based in classical traditions, include an extraordinarily diverse range of contemporary and historical figures. 

Streeter enlarges reality, then cuts to the emotional with an unblinking clarity of detail. Her work dramatizes issues of history, popular culture, and universal longing. The freely gestural strokes are executed in charcoal, pastel, gouache and oil and result in a movement between figurative painting and abstraction.

In the wake of the recent coronavirus pandemic, Streeter’s work has expanded to include the exploration of historically contextualized landscape and architecture.  

As Alanna Heiss, founder of MoMA PS1, observes, “Sabina’s work has a unique conceptual content and an aura of cool detachment that is ironic without being jaded or exaggerated. If I had to choose one living artist to distill my likeness on canvas, it would be her.”

Biography
Sabina Streeter was born in Munich, Germany to a family of writers and architects. She lives and works in Sag Harbor, New York. Streeter’s work is in public and private collections throughout the US and Europe.

www.carolszymanski.org

Artist Statement
My work is conceptual primarily concerned with language. It consists of translations, not in the traditional sense of rewording or interlingual interpretation, but as what the linguist Roman Jakobson called “transmutation”—the interpretation of linguistic signs by non-linguistic systems. I question fundamental notions of how language manifests itself in various forms: as writing, speech, music, images, and diagrammatic mappings of movements. I see this as a way of extending language into other realms of experience.

Biography
Carol Szymanski’s language-based art spans many media, from sculpture and painting to video and performance. She has become particularly known for a series of sculptures in the form of invented musical instruments, and particularly brass horns, that she has been making since 1993. Szymanski was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Whitney Museum Studio Program, and lives and works in New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Recent solo and collaborative exhibitions include He Said I Thought at Signs and Symbols Gallery, New York, NY, 2019; Pareidolia, Totah Gallery, New York, NY, 2018; The Phonemophonic Alphabet Brass Band, Winter Garden, New York, NY, 2017 curated by John Schaefer WNYC New Sounds Live Series and “Emergency Eyewash” (with Barry Schwabsky), Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York,NY 2017; “A Distance as Close as It Can Be,” Elga Wimmer PCC, New York,NY 2016; “My Life is an Index,” Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York, NY 2015; and “Pissing Against the Wind, or, Sketches on the Mental Drain on the Dead Banker,” Guided by Invoices, New York,NY 2012, which have received press attention in Artcritical, Art Press, Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and Time Out New York. Between 2004 and 2014 she produced an email project, cockshut dummy, combining writing and images, excerpts from which have been republished in the art and literary periodicals including Atlantica and Vanitas as well as publishing cockshut offshoots, a 4 book series with Book Works, London. Space Sisters Press will publish cockshut dummy in 2020.  She has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Szymanski has collaborated with numerous composers and musicians including Ben Neill, Ekmeles Ensemble, Betsy McClelland, Dewey Redman, and Wadada Leo Smith. 

www.thefierysensations.com
www.otherthomas.com

Artist Statement
My recent works explore the relationship between Art and Furniture. I developed a technique where I could use my images as a kind of veneer, and have made pieces where the doors, drawer faces and side panels are actual pictures. It was, and still is, my intention to collaborate with other artists; creating an environment where most of the cabinetry is works of Art.

In the early days of Covid-19, when I had a lot of time on my hands, I began assembling a series of children’s blocks, with my friend’s image— front, back and both sides— on them. I was thinking of a set of Blocks for Big Boys, amusingly erotic and playful, but found the different positioning could be quite disturbing as well.

Biography
My interests have always see-sawed between the Fine and Performing Arts. I entered college as an Art Major, and graduated with a degree in Theatre. While trying to make a go as a professional actor in NYC in the Eighties, I began Woodworking, eventually running a shop in the City, and finally starting my own business on the East End. I never gave up acting for long, often taking a part in an Indie Film or a stage production. I also began to seriously pursue Photography as well.

About fifteen years ago, I began to practice Fire Dancing, eventually performing professionally. With two others, we created The Fiery Sensations, and are still actively performing at public and private events. As a sideline, I also work as a Snake Wrangler, bringing one or two snakes to shows on the Burlesque circuit. Snakes and dancers figure prominently in my photography.

www.ryanmwallace.com
IG @yearmillion

Biography
Ryan Wallace was born in 1977 in New York City, and lives and works in Brooklyn and East Hampton, New York. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include 56 Henry, New York; Cooper Cole, Toronto; and Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco. Recent two-person shows have been with Rosy Keyser at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland and with John Riepenhoff at the Elaine DeKooning House, East Hampton. Work has recently been exhibited at BAM, Brooklyn; Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas; Anat Egbi, Los Angeles; Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam; Christian Larsen, Stockholm; Jerome Pauchant Gallery, Paris; Rachel Uffner Gallery, NYC; University of the Arts, Philadelphia; and V1 Gallery, Copenhagen. Wallace’s works can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; RISD Museum, Providence; and the Watermill Center, Watermill; among others.

www.lucywinton.com

Artist Statement
I became entranced by drawing while studying fashion design at F.I.T. I respond to intimate scale and sometimes reference children’s book illustrations almost to review my first experiences of visual excitement. I’m drawn to the romantic tradition and enjoy the sentimental with a touch of mischief. Many of my pieces have been nocturnal, perhaps because I worked for more than a decade on the midnight shift.

Biography
Lucy Winton received her B.A. from University of California at Santa Cruz and M.F.A from New York Academy of Art in 1995. Please see her website for more information.