Past Residents
At the Salina Art Center
Rachel epp buller
residency december 2 - 20, 2020
hoping you are well
Rachel Epp Buller’s installation is a direct response to the sudden changes in the way we engage with art and museums forced upon us during COVID times. As one of our Biennial artists, Epp Buller was scheduled to be in residence this spring but with organizational closings, social distancing protocol, and other COVID regulations, all of our Biennial residencies were postponed.
This exhibition features projects that highlight the ways we care for each other through the written word. Her projects include: Taking Care, a participatory project in letters and thread; Pandemic Epistles, a daily practice of handwritten letters; and Letters to the Future, a series of word-based drawings and recorded audio. “Communication takes on new meaning in pandemic times.” Epp Buller affirms in her artist’s statement, “Standard phrases like ‘take care’ or ‘I hope this finds you well,’ polite but often generic expressions in an earlier time, now convey the weight of hope against a deadly virus.” Letter writing can offer a physical connection when physical contact is not an option. During her residency Epp Buller was secluded with her work in the South Gallery space, the only connection with the artist was through letter writing.
Eileen Roscina
residency August 25 - september 5, 2020
widening circles exhibition September 2 - november 8
Biennial artist, Eileen Roscina is an artist, experimental filmmaker and naturalist currently living in Denver, Colorado. In this dreamed kitchen, the wallpaper, made of pressed flowers, is inspired by a voronoi pattern, the way in which bubbles are arranged in nature. This is an indicator of nature’s tendency to favor efficiency: the nearest neighbor, shortest path, tightest fit. This idea leads to the physical and social bubbles we currently live in. Humans are experiencing the impacts of a new world with limited contact and touch. Roscina looks ahead to the day when we don’t have to think twice about widening our bubbles, our circles. However, right now, when in the kitchen baking bread, fermenting, or cooking more than usual, bubbles are a sign of life - a sign of hope.
Fidencio Fifield Perez
RESIDENCY JULY 1 - 29, 2020
Birdwatchers EXHIBITION JULY 29 - OCTOBER 4
Fidencio Fifield-Perez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, but raised in the U.S. after his family migrated when he was only six. His current work examines borders, edges, and the people who must traverse them. In his work, Fifield-Perez manipulates paper surfaces and maps to refer to the crafts and customs used to celebrate festivals and mourn the dead, which he learned as a child in Oaxaca. For Fifield-Perez, these techniques are a way to reconnect with a time and place no longer present.
An exhibition essay by Ruslana Lichtzier is available in the special edition exhibition program available in our galleries. The galleries will open to the public July 15.
Gordon Moore
Residency September 17 - 24, 2018
Gordon Moore | Abstract Intention September 19 - December 16, 2018
Since his arrival in New York City in 1972, by way of New Haven, Connecticut, where he earned an MFA in painting at Yale University, Gordon Moore has been steadfast in his commitment to abstraction. For over four decades, Moore has devoted his studio practice to developing a deeply personal visual language with which to explore, reconcile, and transcend oppositional realities.
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