CURRENT - FALL 2025
LISA LAPINSKI
Houston, Texas - Wood, Paper - 3rd floor studio
The proposed project is comprised of five to six new mixed-media sculptures, which will be informed by research into elementary school classrooms and plant shops in Seoul, South Korea. Lisa plans to produce sketch models for the sculptures in an art studio in Seoul in the summer of 2025. She will then make the six new sculptures based on these sketch models while at 100 West.
Lisa Lapinski earned a BA from UCSD (1990) and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design (2000). She lives and works in Houston, Texas, and is currently an associate professor of art at Rice University, where she teaches undergraduate sculpture. Miss Swiss, a co-publication between the Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin and Inventory Press, Los Angeles, her most comprehensive monograph to date, was recently released. The book includes contributions by Bruce Hainley, Graham Bader, Kyle Dancewicz, Sabrina Tarasoff, and MacKenzie Stevens, as well as a conversation between the artist and Viola Schmidtt.
Proscenium
SEAN SACHDEV
New York, New York / originally India, Thailand - Nonfiction - writing studio
Sean will be researching and writing the initial chapters of his first full-length book, tentatively titled Unconscious Politics: Chronicles of Slant and Sciolism Inside the American Newsroom. The book straddles three genres: creative nonfiction, political analysis, and memoir. Conceived of in part as a long overdue literary corollary to Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s 1988 treatise Manufacturing Consent, the project draws on his decade-plus of working in some of the country’s most prominent newsrooms to embark upon an investigation of the psychology, biases, and language of broadcast and newspaper journalists.
Sean is a writer and essayist based in New York City. He immigrated to the U.S. from the Middle East when he was a teenager, and holds a master’s degree from NYU's Cultural Reporting and Criticism program. He covers a range of subjects, including philosophy, political bias, queer city life, the military-industrial complex, and his two favorite divas: Hannah Arendt and Beyoncé. Sean has recently written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Point, Slate, Salon, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His essay for New England Review won a Pushcart Prize this year. He is currently an adviser at the University of Chicago’s Program for Public Thinking and co-host of the podcast Diva Discourse. www.sachdev.com
