Join us in the 100 West studios showcasing two-months of residency work by painter Mamie Tinkler from NYC and sculptor Lisa Lapinski from Houston. At 4pm in the first-floor woodshop we feature creative nonfiction writer Shaan Sachdev from NYC, and welcome back novelist alumnus Lucas Schaefer from Austin presenting his book The Slip, ‘a bunch’ of it written in Corsicana, published this summer by Simon & Schuster. Across the street in Anteroom is a video installation by Tokyo-based Jingyi Laura Li. Reception follows at 5pm. Our Bookstore for publications by residents and their recommendations will be open 10am - 4pm
12:00 - 4:00 PM
100 WEST - 100 W. 3rd Ave. second & third floors
LISA LAPINSKI – sculpture, installation - Houston, Texas
MAMIE TINKLER – painting - New York, New York
ANTEROOM - 411 N. Beaton St.
JINGYI LAURA LI - video installation - China / California
BOOKSTORE - 201 N. Commerce St.
books by residents and their recommendations
4:00 - 5:00 PM
100 WEST - first floor presentation, reading, book signing
SHAAN SACHDEV - creative nonfiction - New York City / Thailand / India
LUCAS SCHAEFER, alumnus 2019 - presenting book The Slip - Austin, Texas
reception follows across the street behind Anteroom
LISA LAPINSKI
Houston - Sculpture, Installation - 3rd floor studio
Lisa Lapinski, who earned a BA from UCSD and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design and was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004, lives and works in Houston, Texas and is currently associate professor of sculpture at Rice University. Lisa creates dense, formally complex sculptures utilizing the languages of traditional craft but threaded with found material and poignant semiotic, philosophical and historical references.
During her residency, Lisa has brought her hallmark wry, whimsical and conceptual approach to a mixed-media, gesamtkunstwerk-style installation engaging with the notion of the Rebekahs, the historically female auxiliary to the International Order of Odd Fellows. The 3rd floor studio becomes a mashup of the generic office with an imagined worship space that lies somewhere between a baby’s room and a bake sale, replete with colored-cement cakes, ceramic-and-tobacco-leaf rat trophies and pastel binders. The nondescript is “feminized in a babyish way,” the artist says, “creating a ritual space for these women who were like this side club to the Odd Fellows.” Drawing on found objects and craft processes, the installation operates “like a diagram for a ritual,” bringing the notion of play to an historical reality, bridging past and present and inviting the guest to enter and interact. kristinakitegallery.la/artists/lisa-lapinski
MAMIE TINKLER
New York City - Painting - 2nd floor studio
Over the past decade, Mamie Tinkler has evolved a still-life practice that merges photography, painting, and theatrical staging to produce scenes that border on the surreal, provoking both the frisson of familiarity and the uncanny haze of the unreal. Born in Memphis, Tennessee and currently living and working in New York City, where she earned degrees from Columbia University (BA) and Hunter College (MFA), Mamie moves fluidly between media, drawing on the languages of each to complicate questions of perception, staging, and representation. Long attentive to mirrors, doubling, and other devices of visual displacement, she works within the porous boundary between the constructed and the perceived, revealing how an image can be both precise and unstable at once.
During her residency in Corsicana, Mamie turned toward the surrounding town, exploring its landscapes and built environment through oil and watercolor. She found herself drawn to the architectural specificity of its storefronts—brick structures whose hues, chosen a century ago, now bear the patina of the long, slow sunlight that creates distortions in single-pane windows. A cropped view of a rusted gas pump or nighttime holiday displays become studies in slippage: the surface remains precise, yet the image hovers on the edge of recognition. Throughout this new body of work, Mamie approached the town with an almost archaeological sensitivity, allowing its quiet pace of change to fold into her expanding visual vocabulary, enriching the perceptual ambiguities at the core of her practice. www.mamietinkler.com
SHAAN SACHDEV
New York City / India, Thailand - Creative Nonfiction - writing studio
A writer and essayist based in New York City, with a master’s degree from NYU’s Cultural Reporting and Criticism program, Shaan Sachdev covers a range of subjects that include philosophy, political bias, queer urban life, the military-industrial complex, and the intersections of intellectual and popular culture. His work recently won a Pushcart Prize, and his advising enriches the University of Chicago’s Program for Public Thinking. Recent writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The Point, Slate, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books and New England Review, among others.
While at 100 West, Shaan divided his time between two projects. One applies more than a decade of work in prominent mainstream newsrooms to a narrative, literary nonfiction book—blending creative nonfiction, political analysis and memoir—that unpacks the psychology of mainstream journalists. Tentatively titled Unconscious Politics: Chronicles of Slant and Sciolism Inside the American Newsroom, the book investigates the language and unconscious biases of broadcast and print journalists and situates today’s atomized media landscape within a century-long history. The second project is a novel, recently embarked upon during a year of residencies, which is set in New York and engages a series of literary portraits as a way to parse the writer’s own complicated relationship with the successes and shortcomings of his peers. www.sachdev.com
LUCAS SCHAEFER
Austin, Texas - novel - 1st-floor 100W
Lucas Schaefer drafted and revised 'a bunch' of his nearly-500-page debut novel The Slip in Corsicana across two terms, published this summer by Simon & Schuster. Available from our Bookstore here. Beginning in 1998 Austin, Texas at a fictional boxing gym, and weaving across the ever-shifting canvas of a changing country, The Slip is an audacious, daring look at sex and race in America that builds to an unforgettable collision in the center of the ring. The Slip is the winner of the 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction, a Washington Post Top 10 Book of 2025, one of New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of 2025, and a USA Today national bestseller. Lucas’ work has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, Slate and other publications. He holds an MFA from the New Writers Project at UT-Austin. Lucas lives with his family in Austin. lucasschaefer.com
Schaefer says, ‘I was a little stuck when I got to Corsicana the first time, ended up staying up late one night in my studio reading The Talented Mr. Ripley toward the beginning of my stay, and that combined with the magic of 100 West propelled me almost all the way to the end of a draft. Certainly, there'd be no book (or no book in its current form, or no book now) without 100 West.’
JINGYI LAURA LI
China, Japan / California - video, installation - Anteroom
Laura sees themself as a Kintsugi artist—not in the traditional sense of mending pottery with lacquer and gold, but in the way they weave together moving images and memories to heal bodies and spirits scarred by loss and grief. Their art is born from the cracks and fissures of personal stories, family archives, and the collective struggles of the transnational AAPI diaspora. This video installation stands for Laura's remote presence, prevented from attending this fall residency term due to visa complications.
BOOKSTORE
All books by our artists & writers 20%-off through the holidays.
Our Bookstore refreshed and moved to the corner, lassoing the books and printed matter by our residents back to here - two blocks from 100W, where germination, writing and final edit fed these publications across the last twelve years of residencies. This collection by our alumni is a wonderfully eclectic spread of poetry, play, essay, novel, nonfiction, memoir, art, translations, with recommended titles, their sources and inspirations, contemporary hits, classics, children’s, a Texas section, and local authors. It’s where literature you first heard read aloud at Open Studios becomes available. All profits support our nonprofit mission.
00ps books will present a selection of books for sale from the library of the late artist Doug MacWithey. Ranging from the alchemical to the divine (and beyond!), these books formerly resided on the second floor of the Odd Fellows Hall at 100W, as MacWithey lived there until his untimely death in 2010. Presented in both the second floor common area at 100W with a larger display at the Bookstore, 00ps welcomes the curious seeker to discover these wonderful volumes, many of them rare and out-of-print.201 N. Commerce St. Corsicana - two blocks from 100 West.
Open Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 10a - 4p | 201 N. Commerce St.
