Announcement

Meet our Fall 2023 Residents!

As summer turns to fall in New York City, a new cohort of Pioneer Works Visual Arts, Technology, and Music Residents are moving into their studios and filling them with renewed energy. Since our founding, the Pioneer Works Residency program has been central to our mission to create an open and curious world. 

Each cohort transforms Pioneer Works, putting their own indelible mark for years to come—some exhibiting in our galleries, others creating all-age classes for our creative community, all continuing to expand their practice in new and exciting ways. So without further ado, we're pleased to introduce our fall 2023 residents.

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Tech

Paloma Izquierdo and Kyle Richardson

Paloma Izquierdo and Kyle Richardson work together. She examines techno-sociality through infrastructures, object animism and disrupting social spaces. She is concerned with surveillance and its relation to sex, labor, and the feminized body. She merges design and sculpture, using the disarming perception of feminized objects to subvert expectations by applying technologies of control. Music

Issei Herr

Issei Herr uses the vast sound-world of the cello to expose openness, vulnerability, and a sense of wonder in her intricately looped and layered compositions. On her debut album Distant Intervals, released in Spring 2023 on NNA Tapes, Issei distills her musical memories as a classically-trained performer and weaves together bold new narratives, centered on themes of possibility, becoming, and transformation.

Visual Arts

John Reynolds

John Reynolds is a New York-based artist. He has an MFA in painting from Brooklyn College CUNY, where he has taught 2-D design. Recently, John’s art practice has been influenced by emotional connections around issues of queerness and the global climate crisis. His paintings aim to reconcile the space between imagined futures of queer theory and futures in the era of global warming. His canvases represent a liminal space, where he contemplates human impermanence and landscapes that become less and less familiar.

Visual Arts

Magdalena Dukiewicz

Magdalena Dukiewicz is a Polish-born visual artist based in Brooklyn. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Complutense University in Madrid. Dukiewicz’s work is grounded in her process and the materials used. She juxtaposes organic and bodily products (her own blood and hair, among others) with upcycled and repurposed industrial components. Each piece provokes visceral reactions while welcoming open-ended associations and ambiguities.

Technology

Java Jones

Java Jones engages environmentally and virtually sensitive methods of sculpture, painting, and image-making through an anti-disciplinary lens. Jones describes their process as an act of feeling and imagining inner wise, oscillating between figuration and abstraction. ‘Inner-’ here refers to irreducible spaces necessary for refusing, for living, for imagining beyond–tilling an autobiographical ground for discursive reflections and formations.

Visual Arts

Utsa Hazarika

Utsa Hazarika is an artist and writer based in New York. Her research-based practice ranges across video, installation and sculpture, and explores how an interdisciplinary dialogue between art and social research can push us to think about power, memory and resistance. Her work has exhibited internationally, including at the Queens Museum (US), Cemeti Institute (Indonesia), and Museum of the City of New York (US).

Visual Arts

Vandana Jain

Vandana Jain is an artist and textile designer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores the intersections of pattern and symbol, and spirituality and consumerism. She uses a variety of materials, most notably sugar, shattered auto glass and artists tape.

Technology

Ryan Decker

Ryan Decker (b. 1997) was raised in Hendersonville, North Carolina. He received a BS from Appalachian State University in 2019. Primarily working digitally, Decker is a multi-disciplinary artist who creates animations, furniture, VR experiences, live projections, sculpture, and digital paintings.

Visual Arts

Guanyu Xu

Guanyu Xu (b.1993 Beijing) is an artist currently based in Chicago and a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His works have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, ArtAsiaPacific, The New Yorker, W Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Dazed, and China Photographic Publishing House.

Visual Arts

Kenseth Armstead

Kenseth Armstead has created provocative conceptual art for three decades. Historic exhibitions that feature his work include: Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art; It’s Happening! Celebrating 50 Years of Public Art in NYC Parks in Central Park, NY, NY, presented by NYC Parks, Art in the Parks; and more.

Music

Ciarra Black

Ciarra Black is a music producer, sound artist, and DJ specializing in experimental sounds. After spending 5 years in Berlin, Ciarra recently moved back to Brooklyn where she continues to develop her artistic practice. During her time living in Europe, Ciarra toured extensively and was able to test her work on state-of-the-art sound systems. These experiences gave new visions and inspirations to her work.

Music

Brent Arnold

Composer, cellist, producer, arranger, etc. Arnold studied with violinist Michael White (Pharoah Sanders, John Handy) and cellist Walter Grey (Kronos Quartet). Creates music for cello & electronics and composes for concert, theater, film, dance. Founding member of Ghost Quartet with Dave Malloy, Gelsey Bell, and Brittain Ashford. Music Director & Conductor for Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s Candyman performances.

Music

Imogen Teasley-Vlautin

Imogen Teasley-Vlautin is a composer, songwriter, and producer from Los Angeles. Their work has ranged from film scoring to long-form electronic music composition and performance. They’re now shifting their focus to songwriting and production, traversing themes of grief, love, black freedom, and spirituality.

Programs

Want to get involved?

Public engagement is a core tenet of our residency program. Through opportunities to lead hands-on classes and participate in accessible programming, we support our artists in their pursuit to uncover new modes of thinking and ways of being. Explore upcoming engagements below:

- Join us for our first-ever alum salon featuring Tech Resident Alum Stephanie Dinkins. Stephanie will share a short presentation on the stories we tell our machines followed by a Q&A. This is a PW Members event.

- Meet the fall cohort during October Second Sundays as they open up their studios to the public.

- Become a Member: The PW membership program supports the production and presentation of work through our residency program. Members gain access to biannual private studio tours, as well as our new Alum Salon series inviting residents to present work in an intimate forum.

A Look Ahead

Where are they now?

Curious about what our resident alumni are up to? Explore new shows and projects from our current and resident alumni below:

- Mimi Bai is showing new works as part of a special exhibition, A Tale of Errantry to the End of the Night. On view through September 16.

- Current resident Vandana Jain will present new work in Illiquid Objects at Studio 9D (508-516 West 26th St. #9D, New York, NY) opening this September 8.

- Past resident Suneil Sanzgiri presents Here the Earth Grows Gold, his first solo museum exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum on view through May 2024.

- Jenson Leonard recently sat down with the Creative Independent to discuss his practice, his research process, and meme culture.

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