Introducing Fall Residents and their work, presenting current and past projects with projected image and video. Arrive early beginning 5:30pm for refreshments and to meet the artists and writer. Presentations begin at 6:00pm.
LISA LAPINSKI – sculpture, installation - Houston, Texas
SHAAN SACHDEV - creative nonfiction - New York City / Thailand / India
MAMIE TINKLER – painting - New York City
LISA LAPINSKI
Houston, Texas - Sculpture, Installation - 3rd floor studio
Lisa’s residency work 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, where she produced models for the sculptures this summer.
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.
MAMIE TINKLER
New York, New York - Painting - 2nd floor studio
Mamie Tinkler was born in Memphis, Tennessee and currently lives and works in New York, NY. Tinkler’s paintings deploy still life and photorealism as processes without fitting neatly in either genre. She stages and photographs scenes using found and collected objects, theatrical lighting, mirrors, and painted backdrops. The photographs serve as starting points for paintings that bridge the real and the ethereal. Tinkler earned her BA from Columbia University and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been covered in the New York Times, Artforum, Patron Magazine, and Modern Painters, among others. She was recently included in Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, at LA MoCA (2024). Tinkler has exhibited at Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY (2023, 2020, solo); Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN (2023, solo); Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH (2024); The Suburban, Oak Park, IL (2015, solo); and Kerry Schuss, New York, NY (2015) among others. (Above: Proscenium, 2024, oil on aluminum panel (framed), 30 ¼ x 40 ¼”) www.mamietinkler.com
SHAAN SACHDEV
New York, New York / originally India, Thailand - Creative Nonfiction - writing studio
Shaan 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.
Shaan 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
Lisa Lapinksi, Holly Hobby Lobby, 2017
Lisa Lapinksi, Holly Hobby Lobby, 2017
Mamie Tinkler, Stole, watercolor
Mamie Tinkler