Fall Open Studios 2024

Triangle is excited to announce Fall Open Studios

Fall Open Studios
Thursday, November 7th
6-8 PM

20 Jay St, Suite 318
Brooklyn NY 11201

Featuring our Artists-in-Residence:

Mimi Biyao Bai, Enrique Garcia, Tatiana Istomina and Tiina Pyykkinen

If you have any questions please contact mail@triangleartsnyc.org.

Mimi Biyao Bai was born in Xi'an, China and is based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores how the cultural fantasies we have inherited about assimilation, labor, safety, and survival both confirm and contradict our lived realities. Incorporating research into Westerns and action films, fungi, camouflage, and doomsday preppers, Bai's project asks what does it mean to be prepared? How are representations of safety and survival centered around the individual rather than the collective or the structural? What are alternative modes of survival, adaptation, and creation?

Enrique Garcia's photo-based practice explores the processes that drive erasure, decay, and replication of form. Touching on history, colonialism, and the consequences of technology, his work centers on the paradoxical relationship between creation and destruction. His photo compositions act as networks of symbols using placement and layered juxtaposition to imbue found materials with new meanings. His work's varied references–from ancient ruins, celestial objects, to modern technology–elicit the sublime while provoking reflection on the meaning of human progress. Garcia studied Sculpture at Pratt Institute. His work has been shown at N.A.S.A.L. (MX), SculptureCenter (NY), and Aro (MX). He lives and works between New York and Mexico City.

Tatiana Istomina’s work is informed by double relocation: from Russia to the US, and from research in physics to contemporary art. The central questions of her practice are the conditions of knowledge and the variable concepts of truth. How do we know what we know? How do we know what we know is true? Is there one truth? Who owns it?

Tiina Pyykkinen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2014. Her recent artistic work has focused on the themes of embodied mind, body memory and temporality. In Pyykkinen's paintings, these themes are expressed as events and interactive situations, where the visual experience of the works is shaped by the overall impression created by the surface of the painting, the viewer, and the environment. She is currently collaborating with a biolaboratory at Kask University in Belgium. This international art and science collaboration explores how ecological, laboratory-produced structural dyes can be applied to artistic work.

Pyykkinen’s residency occurs in partnership with the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York and the Finnish Cultural Foundation.