CURRENT - FALL 2025
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. (Above, Holly Hobby Lobby, 2017, installation).
MAMIE TINKLER
New York, New York - Painting - 2nd floor studio
Over the past decade, Mamie Tinkler has developed an approach to still life that uses photography and theatrical lighting to create scenes that border on the surreal. Her work uses the camera, along with found objects, mirrors, lighting gels, and foreshortened perspectives, to find images that have the frisson of familiarity and the haze of the only-imagined. In Corsicana, she will use the expansive space afforded to resident artists to try new methods of making images. Tinkler’s recent work has considered the category of ‘practical effects’ - that is, special effects not derived from computer-generated imagery or camera manipulation. This line of thinking seems urgent now, as machines are able to produce images that seem as credible as photography. How might we access the sense of 'magic' when it is so easily dictated to an algorithm? Tinkler will use the space and time afforded by Corsicana to explore painting from life, setting up multiple scenarios throughout the studio space. What does it mean to leave the camera aside, and use only the moment, and our senses? How do physical space, our immediate surroundings, limit or expand pictorial space in painting? In both watercolor and oil paintings, using both lens-based and observational strategies, Tinkler will develop a new set of images that use a longer horizon, a bigger stage.
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: Stole, 2021, watercolor and gouache on paper mounted to dibond, 13 x 11”) 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