Past Picture Collection Artist Fellows
2023 Artist Fellows
Noah Doely and Michelle Maguire
Things Are Not What They Seem
Working as collaborators, Noah Doely and Michelle Maguire are interested in finding a diverse range of subject matter within the Picture Collection that illustrates things hiding in plain sight. The disguised, the camouflaged, the incognito. Their goal is to spotlight veiled examples from the natural and human-made worlds that embody a broad spectrum of the things that are not what they seem—from masters of imitation to clumsy disguises and everything in between—compiling visual material that will ultimately become a book.
Noah Doely's work explores the paradoxical relationship between seeing and belief through photography, sculpture, and video. He received an MFA from the University of California, San Diego and has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Penumbra Foundation, and is a 2018 Iowa Artist Fellowship recipient. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, appearing in various publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, The North American Review, and Burnaway Magazine. He is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Northern Iowa and has led workshops and seminars at Mildred’s Lane (Beach Lake, PA) and Penumbra Foundation (New York, NY), among others. Visit Noah Doely's website.
Michelle Maguire is a prop and set stylist whose work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Wired, Inc., Popular Mechanics, Runner’s World, and Bloomberg Businessweek, and for brands such as Apple, Converse, Hermès, and Lyft. She is also a bookmaker, whose self-published works that draw from family anecdotes, memories, and the art of the everyday can be found in the permanent collections of Yale, Harvard, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Center for Book Arts, among others. She is inspired by the endless possibilities of an archive, how the meanings of objects and images change when they are combined, manipulated or rearranged, and the joy of discovering unexpected connections, themes, and nuance that comes with looking closely. She holds a BSBA from The Ohio State University and an MLS from Pratt Institute and lives in Columbus, Ohio. Visit Michelle Maguire's website.
JIM JOE
COLLECT YOUR REFLECTIONS
JIM JOE will create a visual art project that aims to celebrate the Picture Collection and its unique relationship to visual research through the creation of original artworks that amalgamate imagery discovered within the collection. Treating the collection as an integral partner and collaborator, JIM JOE will produce an original suite of artworks that will be collected in the form of an exhibition and catalog. Showing the associated references and original works together in a format that contextualizes the unique relationship between the collection, the images referenced, and the finished artworks, this project is both celebratory and revelatory.
JIM JOE is a living artist working in New York City. Their work, which originated in the form of an anonymous graffiti persona, has evolved into a diverse and conceptual art practice that incorporates but is not limited to calligraphy, identity, poetry, image-making, collaborative design, exhibitions and performance. JIM JOE has been exhibited locally and internationally, in public and in private, using physical and digital formats in both artistic and commercial contexts. Visit JIM JOE's website.
Craig Scheihing
Automatic Assemblage
Craig Scheihing aims to make an animated film that examines the Picture Collection itself, his own processes of collection and cataloging, and broader research into notions around image making and categorization. This project will sequence images by hand in response to how the contents of a folder relates to its own organization, then photographing each image onto film. This practice relies on intuition and play, working to bring these folders to life through the illusion of movement, and to put the vast representation of ideas and histories contained within the collection into conversation with each other.
Craig Scheihing is a filmmaker, photographer, and installation artist. He works with time, space, light, and movement through photochemical film; the physical expression of time in measured space, and public installations and performances; creating situations and organizing events with and in the public. Working freely between diary, documentary, essay, abstract, and expanded cinematic forms; his photographic work explores how, in a culture hyper-saturated with self-reflexive imagery, deep explorations of the personal can become a way for audiences to engage with the communal. His practice strives to engage with audiences though nontraditional exhibition structures: screening films and performing expanded cinema works at informal, temporary public cinemas, and installing simple swings in places they are typically not found but maybe should be. These approaches to exhibition seek to raise questions around legitimacy, value, access, agency, and what constitutes a public as both body and space. His work has been screened, performed, and installed in film festivals, museums, basements, bars, beneath bridges, in cinemas, vacant lots, galleries, garages, skateparks, protest encampments, abandoned piers, and universities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Visit Craig Scheihing's website.
Audra Wolowiec
WAV
Audra Wolowiec’s project will mine images that evoke sound, silence, and noise. How is sound contained in images? How might we listen to images? WAV refers to digital audio files (Waveform Audio File Format), creating a relationship to the image files in Picture Collection as a way to understand and question how material phenomena is stored and contained, residing between the visual, embodied, and the ineffable.
Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist whose work oscillates between installation, print, and performance with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language. Her work has been shown at MASS MoCA, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, ICA at Maine College of Art, Print Center New York, and Art in General. Readings and events have taken place at The Poetry Project, Microscope Gallery, and Center for Performance Research. Artist Residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Complex Systems Art and Physics Residency at the University of Oregon supported by a National Science Foundation Grant, Dieu Donné, and Institute for Electronic Arts (iea) at Alfred University. Wolowiec teaches at Parsons School of Design and directs the publishing platform Gravel Projects. Visit Audra Wolowiec's website.
2022 Artist Fellows
Kyung-Me
The Narcissist
Kyung-Me’s work explores potential architectures of the subconscious and how images, objects and memory are intertwined to conjure complex and spiritual spaces. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Coniunctio with Harry Gould Harvey IV, Bureau, New York, NY, 2019; Poor Thing with Sydney Shen, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, 2018; Brooklyn, 2018; Copy Kitty, Selena Gallery, Brooklyn, 2017; and Bad Korean, 17 Essex Gallery, New York, 2016. She is the author of Bad Korean, published by Spaceface Books (2016), and Copy Kitty (2020), forthcoming from 2d Cloud. Her drawings have been published by The New York Times and BOMB Magazine. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art.
Her project will focus on the archetype of the narcissist who is forever entrapped inside visions of his own idealized image. Using various source imagery from the Picture Collection, she will merge the worlds of K-Pop, North Korean communist dance, and early 1900’s magic shows. These worlds share themes about grand spectacle, public persona, and master manipulation of one’s image. Through this work she plans to explore the uncanny and unique conditions of our contemporary age of narcissism, using historical visual and environmental references from the Picture Collection resources. She envisions a series of collage-esque drawings that reads like a surrealist fever dream, in which the viewer finds themselves peering into a labyrinthian hall of mirrors that reflects our modern age. Visit Kyung-Me's website.
Laura Glazer
See Also See
Laura Glazer is an artist using curatorial strategies to share exciting stories that she finds in places she lives and visits. Her work is socially-engaged and depends on the participation of other people, sometimes a close friend, and other times, complete strangers. A background in photography and design inform her social practice, and her artworks appear as books, workshops, radio shows, zines, festivals, exhibitions, installations, posters, signs, postal correspondence, and sculpture. Her participatory art project, See Also See, will create social connections in the NYPL Picture Collection through conversation, collaboration, and publication.
She holds a BFA in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology and is an MFA candidate in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. She is based in Portland, Oregon, after living in upstate New York for 19 years. Visit Laura Glazer's website.
Killeen Hanson
An Open-Source Visual Pedagogy for Design-Led Research
Killeen Hanson currently teaches design research within the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, and consults as a thought partner and design strategist with individuals and organizations pushing the boundaries of what is and what can be. Her ongoing research projects and collaborations explore the power of radical listening, the potential of objects as verbs, and the relationship between education, publication, and civic engagement. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with degrees in English Literature and French Language and earned a dual MFA in Applied Craft + Design from Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft.
The primary goal of her project, An Open-Source Visual Pedagogy for Design-Led Research, refines and clarifies 3 existing activities and develops 2-3 additional activities that use the Picture Collection to teach design-led research to undergraduate art and design students. The resulting lesson plans (and associated materials) will be accessible for free to other teachers. Visit Killeen Hanson's website.
Christian Patterson
Text as Image
Christian Patterson’s conceptually grounded, narratively driven, visually layered work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and often deals with themes of the archive, authorship, memory, place and time. It includes photographs, drawings, paintings, objects, video and sound. Patterson is the author of three books, including the critically-acclaimed, award-winning Redheaded Peckerwood (2011, Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award) and Bottom of the Lake (2015). He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2013) and winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2015). His work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and J. Paul Getty Museum among others. He has lectured, mentored and taught widely. He is represented by Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA and Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
His project, dealing with text and images, will search for incidental occurrences of words in the Picture Collection folders that have their own visual qualities. He will collect instances of words that carry both linguistic meaning and visual effect, resulting in a visual-verbal synergy. The resulting visual poetry and/or mental imagery will be used to create a work of composited images, or collages, in book form. Visit Christian Patterson's website.