Summer Open Studios 2024

Triangle is excited to announce Summer Open Studios

Summer Open Studios
Thursday, August 15th
6-8 PM!

20 Jay St, Suite 318
Brooklyn NY 11201

Featuring our new summer Artists-in-Residence:

Panos Balomenos, Erick Alejandro Hernandez, Ellie Rae Hunter,
and Pedram Sazesh

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

Panos Balomenos is an artist from Athens, Greece, living and working in Helsinki, Finland since 2003. Balomenos uses watercolor painting and performance to combine personal narratives, historical events, and fiction to explore subjects such as power relations, sexuality and politics. Balomenos’s watercolour pieces are often carried out as a series. Each painting contains several layers, stories, and references. Balomenos believes that in our contemporary world, where our lives and habits are scarily digitalized, painting is a unique tool left intact and suitable for engagement, social criticism and reflection.

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

Erick Alejandro Hernández is an artist from Matanzas, Cuba living and working in New Haven, CT. He received his BFA in Painting from RISD and his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. Hernández’s practice is invested in exploring how traditional techniques like oil painting and drawing can shift material forms in order to hold complex individual and collective histories. Revolving around overarching narratives such as a car crash or the death of a loved one, his paintings are investigative allegories exploring individual and shared experiences like grief, mourning, assimilation, and exile.

Ellie Rae Hunter’s practice bridges video and sculptural work to investigate the ways in which societal norms and expectations are absorbed into our physical bodies. Hunter incorporates autobiographical materials into fictional worlds to experiment with different corporal realities. The idea of a “patient” is key, as Hunter considers the ways in which a pathologizing ethic extends beyond medical institutions and into every corner of our lives, rendering us perpetual patients - bodies waiting to be acted upon. In this paradigm, physical and spiritual inadequacy are a given, a starting point.

Pedram Sazesh uses painting to address social relations and personal narratives surrounding migration, immigration, and notions of national heritage. Sazesh is interested in how they contend with the construction of identity while negotiating with abstraction and image-making as the site to model and consider this research. Sazesh explores popular Iranian tourist destinations as a site that models a post-messianic time, negotiating with USA immigration and visa procedures as a means to reframe traditional figure-ground relations, colour as geography, and transient sites of nomadic textiles. Recently, Sazesh has been dyeing outfits with natural dyes such as madder and oak apples to contextualize a court case against the Netherlands’ immigration department for discrepancies within their artist-residency permit procedures.