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
The Slip by alumnus Lucas Schaefer (2019), published by Simon & Schuster 2025. Available from our Bookstore here.
LISA LAPINSKI
Houston, Texas - Sculpture, Installation - 3rd floor studio
Lisa Lapinski, Holly Hobby Lobby, 2017
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
Proscenium, 2024, oil on aluminum panel (framed), 30 ¼ x 40 ¼”
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. 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
JINGYI LAURA LI
China, Japan / California - video, installation - Anteroom
Laura is currently working on their Born|Raw film, which explores their gender identity and China’s one-child policy through the lens of their family’s story. 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, particularly within queer feminist circles in China, Japan, and the U.S. Laura grounds their art at the intersection of these threads, where the personal becomes political and where ancestral knowledge meets contemporary resistance. Through the interplay of images, texts, affects, and languages, they cradle the gaps and glitches—those beautiful imperfections and losses in translation of diasporic experience that hold within them the potential for solidarity and resilience. These spaces invite contemplations over ruptures, where ordeal can reveal new possibilities for hope and the future.
LUCAS SCHAEFER
Austin, Texas - novel - alumnus 2019
Lucas drafted and revised ‘a bunch’ of his near-500 page novel THE SLIP in Corsicana across two stints since 2019, now published by Simon & Schuster.
This story’s about shifting identities and unexpected connections centered on the fictional Terry Tucker’s Boxing Gym. The action kicks off in 1998, when a teenager from Massachusetts named Nathaniel Rothstein is sent to Austin for the summer to live with his Uncle Bob (“His one exotic trait was a small hoop earring, like Harrison Ford”). The main mystery of the book unfolds when Nathaniel goes missing one August night. Schaefer bobs and weaves through intersecting storylines, moving back and forth in time to follow a kaleidoscopic cast of characters, including Nathaniel and Bob, all connected by Terry Tucker’s gym. There’s rookie cop Miriam Lopez; young wannabe boxer Alexis Cepeda; X, a local teen grappling with their sexuality; David Dalice, a Haitian immigrant and mentor to Nathaniel; and Larry, a South Texas grifter also known as El Payaso who helps people cross the border into the U.S. by painting their faces white and dressing them like clowns. If this all sounds bonkers, it is. It’s also at turns hilarious, touching, and profound. - Dina Gachman, Texas Monthly
Lucas 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 100W 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 100W.’ We welcome Lucas back to Corsicana for Open Studios for a reading and signing. THE SLIP is available at our Storefront and online bookshop in the meantime.
BOOKSTORE
Our Bookstore features published literature and art by the artists and writers attending studio residencies at 100 West, with recommended books of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays influencing their work. Books on Texas, translations published by Deep Vellum, children’s books, a rotation of resident art, specialty office supplies, and residency merchandise are also available here. The Storefront hosts book clubs, author readings, book signings, and creative workshops.
All profits from purchases directly support our nonprofit mission to advance new work by an international community of artists and writers with our provision of generous support and historic space in downtown Corsicana. Online purchases at Bookshop.org are an alternative to Amazon and similar platforms for buying books online. Since 2020 Bookshop.org has raised over $33 million for local bookstores and nonprofits like ours.
201 N. Commerce St. Corsicana - two blocks from 100 West.
Open Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 10a - 4p.
