Artist In Residence
Our Partner: Powerhouse Arts
Powerhouse Arts operates a purpose-built fabrication facility devoted to providing artists the resources, tools, and community needed to bring their art projects to life. Seeking to inspire and empower, not just within, but beyond the confines of their building, the not-for-profit organization has selected four artists whose work centers creative expression through material exploration.
Lauren Cohen
Lauren Cohen gathers content for her paintings, sculptures, graphic novels and comedic performances by documenting a constructed life that blurs truth and fiction. Her work draws directly from job experiences as well as historical events and characters to construct a universe where control, power, sexuality and violence are recurring themes.
Cohen will be in residence during the month of August 2024 and will be showcasing her work at Ace New York from September 2024 – November 2024.
Stephanie Santana
Stephanie Santana constructs mixed-media textile works and prints that explore interior worlds, mythologies, navigational tools and resistance strategies of African diasporic origin. Rooted in archival research while employing a range of printmaking, quilting and embroidery techniques, her practice locates alternative spaces of knowledge and self-definition.
Santana will be in residence during the month of November 2024 and will be showcasing her work at Ace New York from December 2024 – February 2025.
Jacob Olmedo
Jacob Olmedo works with textiles and sculptural forms that blend traditional and contemporary craftwork to create deeply personal statements about what it means to be human. By revealing the tenderness of body, skin, land and soul, their practice examines how tangible and intangible barriers constrain individuals and their experiences.
Olmedo will be in residence during the month of February 2025 and will be showcasing their work at Ace New York from March 2025 – May 2025.
Pacifico Silano
Pacifico Silano explores print culture, image circulation and LGBT+ identity by re-photographing gay pornographic magazines of the ’70s and ’80s — an era connecting the progressive legacy of the sexual revolution with the advent of the HIV/AIDS crisis. He assembles these images into a range of installations that point to the tensions underlying the source material.
Silano will be in residence during the month of May 2025 and and will be showcasing his work at Ace New York from June 2025 – August 2025.