2007-2008 Fellowships and Residencies Awarded |
Each fellowship awards $5,000 and a one-year residency at
the foundation to artists of exceptional accomplishment and
promise. Beneficiaries are expected to embrace the Bray experience
of community and exchange, and have the opportunity to focus
their attention towards producing and exhibiting a significant
body of work. Artists Adrian Arleo and Sarah Jaeger joined
Bray Resident Artist Director StevenYoung Lee in selecting
this years award winners.
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Lilian Fellow | |
Brian Rochefort grew up in Rhode
Island. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where
he graduated with honors in 2007. "I intended my Rockstar Energy Gloops to
be a commentary on the relentless commercialization of everything
in sight, and the trend obsession that infects and saturates
every facet of modern life. What is most important about my
recent work is the form and its interaction with the surface
painting where I incorporate celebrity status, pop icons, tattoo
motifs, graffiti, glitter, and the ubiquitous hearts and stars.
Like an abstract narrative on a Greek Vessel, these spray painted,
globular, suggestive forms tell a story about this time period
in American Culture."
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Lincoln Fellow | |
Renee Audette receive her BFA from the University of Wyoming, and her MFA from the University of Florida. Since graduating, Audette has been living and working in Gainesville, FL as a studio artist and part-time professor at Santa Fe Community College. She has been showing her work at various venues, both nationally and internationally, and was recently featured as an emerging talent in the May, 2007 issue of Ceramics Monthly. "My work represents, simultaneously, the beauty and ugliness that is inherently part of each of us. I deal with concerns specific to outward expressions of interior paradoxes. Feminine in nature, the work often makes ironic commentary on the stereotypes of girlhood innocence and naivete." |
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Taunt Fellow | |
Jeremy Hatch is a Vancouver-based artist who constructs large-scale cast porcelain sculpture. He has received several research/production/travel grants and attended residencies at the Takumi Studios in Japan, the European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and the Archie Bray Foundation. Jeremy has taught courses at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Matsutani Fellow | |
Anne Drew Potter attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania for her undergraduate education, and she received a MFA degree from the New York Academy of Art, and was awarded a travel fellowship to the U.K. through the Royal Academy of Art in London. She pursued a second Masters at Indiana University. "My work bridges contemporary conceptual and narrative concerns with certain elements of sculptural tradition to question both our current constructions of identity as they relate to the body and the manner in which these are connected to a historically informed sense of self. I am interested in the moment when the self-evidence
of our own experiences is challenged by confrontation with
the other, the infinity of realities that exist outside of
our own. I manipulate signifiers of gender, race, age, and
other identity characteristics to encourage viewers to confront
their feelings about normalcy, difference, and what defines
human." |
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