Triangle Winter Open Studios

February 1st, 2018. 6PM

No RSVP necessary.

Join Triangle to celebrate our Winter Residency Season. Meet current residents from Finland, France, Japan and the United States. View their work and studios before their residencies come to a close at the end of February. This event is wheelchair accessible.

Heather Hart is interested in the power in enigmatic spaces: thresholds. They exist simultaneously inside and outside, private and public, minimal and handmade, spiritual and natural. Their content may further transform depending on the visitor and their perception. Her interdisciplinary practice fuses fabricated and historical belief systems; legends that have been bequeathed through generations mixed with invention and intuition. She is interested in not only creating site-specific liminal space for personal reclamation but also in questioning dominant narratives and creating alternatives to them.

João Enxuto & Erica Love work in multiple forms on topics related to systems (technological, institutional, and economic) that interface with the art field. Their current project Contemporary.Institute is the prototype for an experimental platform that can stage progressive interventions into the art economy. Enxuto received an MFA in Photography from RISD and Love holds BAs from Brown University in Economics and Visual Arts and an MFA from UCLA. Together they were fellows at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program for 2012-2013. In 2017, Enxuto and Love were awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Artist Fellowship and a Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant,

Masahito Ono (b. 1983, Tokyo, Japan) creates installations, photographs and films that explore memory, human condition, geopolitical boundaries, and the history, which the world has forgotten or de-experienced. Ono received his Master of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2015. Prior to moving to New York, he was an international video journalist working for global media organizations for nearly a decade. Ono had witnessed the rapidity with which stories and images decay as well as the role of society and the media in discouraging some stories. Ono creates his work in response to this past experience as a journalist. In contrast to news storytelling, Ono’s use of photography delves into the producer’s intimate relationship with the medium. Ono currently lives and works in New York.

Antti Nyyssölä’s work is based on painting and its tradition and utilizes many different materials and self developed techniques. His work often deals with sublime phenomena through everyday notions. Recently, he has been working on pieces that invite interactivity, e.g, oversized artists’ books and rebuildable sculptures. In addition to traditional art institutions, he has presented his work in self-curated events in alternative city spaces, and has worked in collaboration with theatre practitioners.

Four students from the Clermont Ferrand School of Fine Arts (ESACM) will utilize the project space at Triangle as an international site of artistic learning and exchange. Clément Dupont’s work addresses painting, composition, surface, materials, gesture, and often uses poor materials like adhesive tape. Valentine Traverse constructs sculptures from studio debris that undergo changes in form over time. Clélia Barthelon’s experimental practice employs methods and objects such as maps, books and the internet to explore contradictory states of being. Matthieu Dussol is interested in producing film that lies between both documentary practice and fiction.

Clermont Ferrand School of Fine Arts is located in the center of France and runs a unique nomadic program abroad for its MFA candidates. As part of their formal education, these students move between cities, allowing them to experience a larger, global ecosystem of contemporary art and culture.

Event image: Antti Nyyssölä, Untitled (2016). Corrugated iron, corrugated cardboard, latex, spray paint, furniture paint. 39x40cm. Photo: Jussi Tiainen