“Studio of the South” Residency

Julie Beaufils studied at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, in Paris, and at the USC Roski School of Art and Design, in Los Angeles. She has exhibited in various galleries and institutions such as Balice Hertling, Paris; Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo; the Kunsthalle, Mulhouse; Overduin & Co, Los Angeles; and the Pernot Ricard corporate foundation, Paris, among others.

Miriam Laura Leonardi navigates through a variety of media, questioning language and signs as a construction of meaning, which are subject to change over time, and examines social norms with an often ironic undertone and the minimal aesthetics of conceptual art. She relies on the potential of appropriation to uncover the structures that shape capitalist commodity culture and with a surreal exploration of thought she produces enigmatic objects of desire, such as fake ready-mades, ephemeral installations and sculptural work as well as videos and video-performances. For her residency in Arles she foresees to work for the first time in ceramics to create vases after a Sicilian tradition for decorative domestic purposes.

Charlotte Houette studied at the beaux-arts de Paris and at the Art Center College of design in Pasadena.
Her work as a painter integrates several techniques, such as printing, transfer, construction and sculpture. Prefabricated elements, such as windows or doors evoking the cut-out facades of simplistic model houses, are recurrently integrated into the paintings, placing them halfway between abstract painting and the ready-made.
In 2015, she co-founded The Cheapest University, an experimental school that organises workshops, residencies and lectures. Within this project, she created the journal EEAPES, which is based on collective readings and translations of feminist science fiction.

Parker Ito's practice tends towards the creation of a large and interconnected body of work, taking the form of installations, paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, websites, books and prints. Parker Ito has exhibited in museums and art centers around the world including Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Times Museum, Guangzhou; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall River; and Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing; White Cube, London; Sadie Coles HQ, during CONDO London; Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles; Galeria Mascota, Mexico City; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Team Gallery, New York and Los Angeles; Air de Paris, Paris; Three Star Books, Paris; and Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.

Through painting, drawing and comics, Julien Ceccaldi depicts characters in search of love and success. Inspired by the archetypes of the Shoujo manga tradition, his stories focus on personal and sentimental relationships involving androgynous beings.
His body of work depicts the intersection of cute and morbid, and conveys an interest in the constraints of fashion and public image.
He has participated in several exhibitions in institutions and galleries including the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; House of Gaga, Mexico City; Jenny’s, New York; and Lomex, New York.
Julien Ceccaldi has been featured in various publications including Artforum, Frieze and Mould Map, and is the author of several self-published comic books.

 

Intersectionality/

You're the most insecure person I know and it's disgusting/

We have to be gentle with each other’s hearts 

I Like America and America likes me 

For the CULTURE/

If you were them, You would be them/

LISTEN/

“You’ve got to give them something special, you got to give them you, what you do, what you represent”

New women, old ways, Gotta Keep a Balance/

I look cooler than I am/

I don't want my work to be some fucking free zone associations/

Build the margins/

Yo No se

Swear by the moment 

Centering identifies 

Consider the source 

Emotional thirst-trap

Long journey not a lot of time

Borderless experience

You can’t be upset without being willing to educate

We just have to know more about each other before we speak on each other

Economic privilege masquerading as morality

As black men we are always trying to feel secure

I grew up the weird nigga in the hood

Debt trap anxiety 

Human rights to have the fruits of their labor stored somewhere

The boomer class

D riding disfunction 

Emotional implications 

 

Naoki Sutter-Shudo is born in Paris in 1990 and grows up in Tokyo. After a stint at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (California), he joins and co-runs Shanaynay, a now-defunct project space in Ménilmontant (Paris). Since 2015 he has been living and working in Los Angeles, where he founded Bel Ami gallery in 2016. As an artist, he mainly works in sculpture and photography, and is interested in the relationship between langage and materials. He also writes short fiction. His art is represented by Derosia (New York) and Crèvecœur (Paris).

Asha Schechter is an artist based between Los Angeles and New York. Upcoming exhibitions include "Objects of Desire" at LACMA in Fall 2022. Other activities include running The Vanity, a gallery in Los Angeles, and Apogee Graphics, a publishing and design firm co-founded with Laura Owens.

Gary Indiana is a writer and artist. He is the author of seven novels and eight books of nonfiction. His videos and photography have been exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial.  

Sadie Laska (b. 1974, West Virginia) is a visual artist and musician living in Queens, New York. She received her MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2014. Laska’s work has been shown internationally, with solo shows at Canada, New York; 56 Henry, New York; Soccer Club Club, Chicago IL; Office Baroque, Brussels; KS Art, New York; and Galerie Bernard Ceysson, in Paris, Saint Etienne, France; Luxembourg and Geneva. In 2017, she was the subject of a three-person exhibition at Newport Street Gallery, London, organized by Damien Hirst. That same year, Laska curated Animal Farm, a group exhibition at the Brant Foundation and Study Center in Greenwich, CT. Additionally, her work has been included in group exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, White Columns, Marlborough Gallery, James Fuentes Gallery, all in New York; among others. Laska’s band, I.U.D. has performed at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, The Kitchen, ISSUE Project Room, Astrup Fearnley and the Kunsthalle Zürich.

Eric Palgon is a painter, sculptor, and poet living in Queens, NY. His work is inspired by nature, craft, touch, and play. He runs the online gallery, Ahava Shemesh, found on Instagram, and the artist and poetry book press, Turtle Jazz.

Alicia Vaïsse, born in 1983, is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
She also holds a Master's degree in Law and Art History. Today, Alicia is an art and horse riding teacher and lives on a horse farm while practicing her art through various forms of drawing, painting and photography. She draws her inspiration from the animal world that surrounds her as well as from her imagination, fed by documentary and fictional literature, being particularly interested in works questioning the links between different species.

Adee Roberson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a meditation on symbolism and texture. Synthesizing performance and installation, they work melds vibration and technicolor visions through paintings, video, and melodic compositions. These works offer a refracted timeline of black diasporic movement, weaving sonic and familial archives, with landscape, rhythm, and spirit. 

They have exhibited and performed at numerous venues including, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Antenna Gallery, Project Row Houses, Palm Springs Art Museum, Human Resources , UTA Artist Space, NADA Miami, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans, MOCA Los Angeles, and Art Gallery of Ontario. Adee has been an Artist-In-Residence at Echo Park Film Center, Treehouse Lagos, and ACRE. They are a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Cutting Edge Grant and the 2021 Los Angeles Artadia Award. They are based in Los Angeles, California.

Born in 1979.
The work of Clement Rodzielski is part of a practice of uses and misuses of images. He most often borrows the means of painting, and by this medium, he prolongs an interrupted existence of objects, or conversely preventing the flow, redistributing the surfaces.
He is represented by the Chantal Crousel gallery in Paris.

Alake Shilling (b. 1993) is a painter and sculptor based in Los Angeles who creates characters stemming from the artist’s childhood obsession with Lisa Frank and the aesthetic of after-school craft, making the viewer become what she calls “an accessory of comfort.” However, unlike the works of Lisa Frank, Shilling’s painted characters depart from perfection. Imagine if you will, Lisa Frank illustrated with candid empathy. Shilling notes “There is a dialogue between me and each character. The characters are more of an emotion. They embody a feeling.” Shilling takes additional influence from the natural world, collecting images of flowers, many of which are translated into her own visual vocabulary. She listens to Disco as her music of choice, drawing from glittering Disco album covers for inspiration, which appear in surprising moments of texture in her paintings. Shilling’s characters ultimately realize her childhood dream of creating her own visual lexicon of cute animals and plush creatures that were made to soothe and comfort, yet in her world embody the human condition in all its imperfections.

Mona Varichon is an artist and translator. She studied sociology at Paris Descartes University, then fine arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Her videos, performances, and photographic series chronicle and seek to pay homage to the present time, while revealing the sociological realities that drive it and make it worse. Her work has recently been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Capc musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux; the National Gallery, Prague; and in galleries such as Cocotte, Treignac (France), Alienze, Vienna (Austria), and The Vanity, Los Angeles.

Alexander Zevin teaches at City University of New York and is an editor at New Left Review. Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist, his first book, was published with Verso in 2019. His writing has also appeared in the London Review of Books and Le Monde Diplomatique. His current project examines the relationship between liberals and socialists from a historical perspective, and he is especially interested in concepts of planning, finance, imperialism, and how these have changed over time.

Blake Rayne was born in Lewes; Delaware in 1969. He lives and works in New York.

Candida Alvarez is an American artist and professor, known for her paintings and drawings.

Her work has been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Whitney Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. Alvarez was recently granted the Arts and Letters Award in Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a 2022 recipient of a Latinx Artist Fellowship. She was awarded the 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting by the Foundation for Contemporary Art, NY, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painter and Sculptors Grant in 2019. Alvarez is an alum of the Yale School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and is currently the F.H. Sellers Professor in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has taught since 1998.  

Alvarez is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.