Nicki Cherry, Spit Spout Sprout, 2022, Ceramic stoneware, bandaids, silk tulip, 28" x 15" x 12"
Sift
November 18 - December 14, 2022
2022 Season IV International Residency
Nicki Cherry, MJ Daines, Sarah Davidson, Anna Gustafson, Kumi Kaguraoka, Hyojae Kim, Nicole Ji Soo Kim, Adrienne Reynolds, Linda Sok, Sam Sundius and Gabriela Těthalová
Opening Reception:
November 18, 6-8pm
NARS Main Gallery
Spanning a multitude of practices - performance, painting, sculpture, textile and digital, Sift presents a group of artists employing a variety of strategies to excavate histories- both personal and universal. Through manipulated forms,fragmented bodies, disassembled threads, and repeated motions, these artists’ practices are sites to piece together, reframe and rebuild.
Support for this exhibition generously provided by:
Nicki Cherry (they/she) is a nonbinary artist born in the Midwest and based in New York. After initially studying to become a particle physicist, Cherry received their MFA from Yale School of Art in 2019 and their BA from the University of Chicago in 2014. They presented a solo exhibition at the Border Project Space in July 2021. Group exhibitions include Flux Factory, ELM Foundation and Shin Gallery in New York; AUTOMAT and Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia; and the Reva David Logan Center for the Arts, and Slate Arts and Performance in Chicago. Cherry’s work has been featured in Arte Fuse, Coastal Post, Art of Choice, and Floorr Magazine. Cherry is a 2022 AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum of Arts.
MJ Daines lives and works in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, Canada. She holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School at Bard College, a BFA in Art History from Concordia University, and certification in textile analysis from the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens (France), in computerized jacquard weaving from the Centre des Textiles Contemporains de Montréal. She has been in residence at Penland School of Crafts (NC), The Banff Centre (Canada), Pocoapoco (Mexico) and at the studio of Andrea Zittel (CA). She is currently a lecturer in visual arts at Princeton University.
Sarah Davidson (they/them, b.1989, Ottawa) lives and works in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. They have exhibited their work at Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver), Feuilleton (Los Angeles), Cassandra Cassandra (Toronto), Erin Stump Projects (Toronto), Unit 17 (Vancouver), The Power Plant (Toronto), The New Gallery (Calgary), and Audain Gallery (Vancouver), among others. They were a finalist in the 2018 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and are the recipient of awards including the Canada Council for the Arts Concept to Realization (2022), and Research and Creation (2021) grants. They hold a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design (2015) and an MFA from the University of Guelph (2019).
Anna Gustafson was conceived in Guatemala to an Italian/Guatemalan mother and Swedish father, born in Sweden and raised in Vancouver, Canada. Gustafson's long view has benefited from being nurtured in a multi-cultural family within an immigrant perspective. An important premise of her work is that we best remember information and events through our senses and associated emotions. With a strong sensory component, her work is a catalyst for deep emotion and conversation, that encourages each viewer absorb and retain their experience. An honours graduate of Vancouver School of Art - now Emily Carr, Anna has shown in public galleries since 1974.
Kumi Kaguraoka worked at a toy design company, as an art director after graduated with an MFA in Musashino Art University in 2012. Then she started as an artist since 2015. In 2015 she selected as a residence artist by “Bank ART” and held exhibited and her artworks won the Grand Prix at “SICF 16”. Her artworks have been frequently exhibited at Seibu Sogo where is the major department stores in Japan, museums and galleries since 2016. She was selected as an artist to receive funding from the "Istyle Foundation" in 2017. "International Art Science Symposium 2019" sponsored by Kyoto University and Goldsmiths, University of London, her artwork was awarded. Currently, her artworks are featured in overseas media.
Hyojae Kim is a Korean Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1993. She received her MFA in Korea National University of Arts and has been working in the medium of video, installation and performance to shed light on Neoanthropinae's identity. Hyojae Kim has shown her works in prominent art venues in Korea including Coreana Munseum of Art, Ilmin Museum of Art and Arko Art Center.
Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her art education began at School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, completing her BFA at Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2020. She has shown in various group shows and participated in Toronto based Roundtable Residency (2020). She is currently a recipient of the Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant funded by Canada Council for the Arts.
Adrienne Reynolds is a cross-disciplinary visual artist. Born in Minnesota, USA and raised in Canada, she splits her time between Brooklyn and Toronto. She has an MFA from Parsons, the New School for Design (2008) and an Associate's Degree from the Ontario College of Art (1991). In recent years she has participated in Mass MoCA's Artists for Assets residency program and the guest renter residency at Toronto's Open Studio. Recent shows include Art Lot in Brooklyn. She has exhibited in New York, Chile, Mexico, Serbia, Brazil, and Toronto.
Linda Sok graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales Art & Design, Australia with First Class Honours and the University Medal in Fine Arts. Linda has exhibited throughout Australia and the US at institutions including the Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia) , Artspace (Sydney, Australia), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre (Sydney, Australia), Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne, Australia), Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge, Massachusetts), and Textile Arts Center (New York). She was selected as a finalist in the Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Footscray Art Prize, and Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize. Linda was previously a resident at the Boston Center for the Arts and Textile Arts Center.
Sam Sundius is a multidisciplinary artist in New York City. They received a B.A. from Hunter College in Drawing and English in 2014, and have studied at the Art Students League in New York and l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sundius' work has been shown around New York, including at the Governors Island Art Fair and at the Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art and has been written about in the Gothamist and Textile Plus. They participated in residencies on Governors Island in 2020 and 2021 and are the recipient of the NYFA City Artist Corps Grant and the Queens Art Fund New Work Grant.
Gabriela Těthalová, born in 1988 in The Czech Republic, is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany, mainly interested in the medium of painting in both the traditional and broader sense. In 2020, she graduated from the Painting / Drawing studio of Prof. Jutta Koether at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Previously she studied Painting at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2013, she completed her Master’s degree in Mathematics at the Charles University in Prague.
