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.
ERICK HERNANDEZ – Painting - Brooklyn, New York
KAJA JOO - Alternative Photography, Installation, Sculpture - Vienna, Austria
JACKSON MCGRATH – Nonfiction - Chicago, Illinois
KAJA JOO
Alternative Photography, Installation, Sculpture - Vienna, Austria - 2nd floor studio
KAJA JOO - Alternative Photography, Installation, Sculpture - Vienna, Austria
Kaja Clara Joo's practice questions the nature and psychology of our surrounding matter and the myths embedded within them. In an age saturated with images and objects, narration has become not just a supplement to the visual, but its most essential material. There are no “neutral” elements. Every material carries cultural weight, political history & social resonance. The Austrian- Korean artist manipulates them to reveal fragility beneath solidity, or the tender unknown beneath the known.
Over the past year, she has been building a personal archive of geological scan data acquired from borehole companies in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, South Korea, etc.. These visual materials, generated through technologies such as infrared imaging and ground-penetrating radar, offer abstract glimpses into the earth’s depths.
At Corsicana, she would like to work with on-site materials and historic photographical printing techniques, which require only sunlight for exposure, to create new sculptural images. While still exploring how best to translate these scans into form, Corsicana’s history, shaped by oil and industrial memory, offers fertile conceptual ground. Texas, with its borehole industries and layered geology, could open new dialogues between surface and depth, myth and matter.
ERICK HERNANDEZ
Painting - Brooklyn, New York - 3rd floor studio
Taking root in highly temporal narrative settings like the death of a loved one, the length of a subway commute, the confines of a waiting room, or the impact of a car crash, Erick Alejandro Hernandez’s (he/him) practice explores how traditional techniques like oil painting and drawing can shift material forms in order to hold complex individual and collective histories.
Guided by questions around individual and collective loss and mourning, Hernandez works rhythmically with varying modes of paint application, collage, and approaches to scale that range from small to monumental. Often, his works are formed slowly and gradually by gluing fragments of painted canvas together, allowing a state of constant renewal where edges are never fixed.
He works iteratively and associatively to develop form and content, taking cues from psychoanalysis, history, literature, and his own experiences. The resulting works are investigative allegories exploring individual and shared experiences like grief, assimilation, and exile.
JACKSON MCGRATH
Nonfiction - Chicago, Illinois - writing studio
Jackson McGrath is a writer of experimental nonfiction interested in aesthetic philosophy and the natural sciences. His work explores how culture constructs images of the world and how these images shape material realities. While at Corsicana, McGrath is researching the thirty-some historical communities named “New Hope” in Texas, exploring questions of mediation, authorship, and abstraction.
