18th Street's International Artists in Residence Exchange program facilitates creative inter-cultural collaboration and experimentation among artists. In addition we strive to build a critical forum and context for the examination of such work by forging new relationships with arts agencies and centers around the world. Now in its 13th year, our program has hosted over 200 residencies in partnership with the countries of Australia, Cameroon, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Serbia, South Korea, Sudan, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.
(Eligiibility for our International Program is limited to cooperative partnerships with foreign government agencies and private foundation funding programs.)
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Chris Fox (Australia)
March - May, 2010
Mixed media
Sydney-based artist Chris Fox combines the architectural and the artistic with his sculptures, installations, hybrid objects, drawings and models. Skating a fine line between folly and practicality, the various projects devised by Fox draw from
their own physical manifestation as sculptures and installations. His formal training as an architect and visual artist is acutely visible in his projects. Chris
Fox has exhibited nationally and internationally in over 40 exhibitions, has received a number of awards and scholarships. Fox has work held in collections in Australia and has been commissioned for a number of large-scale projects including private and public art commissions.
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Birgit Sauer (Austria)
March - April, 2010
Painter
Birgit Sauer was born in Vienna and studied and graduated from the University of Applied Art inVienna. Her exhibitions led her from Burgenland and Vienna to Germany, France, Italy, China, USA, Brazil and other countries.
Birgit Sauer’s images reflect a transfer of the current condition, the
moment in its richness, the touch of the human essence in its simplicity
and complexity.
She skillfully combines a variety of techniques and experiments into a multi layered approach to transfer her ideas into reality. The results of her experiments manifest into photographs, paintings, etchings, mixed media and her style elements are not limited to one technique, but interact with each other
and create a diversity of artistic expression.
Permanent is Nowhere is the title of the series that she will work on at18th Street Arts Center. It is about the interaction between the perception inside and outside – the permanent changing truth, the perpetual traveling of the paintings. The paintings will be done on oil on canvas and wood.
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Maciek Stepinski (Poland)
April - May, 2010
Mixed media
Stepinski is a photographer and video artist. He graduated in1999 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and from 2000 to 2002 he studied at École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographic in Arles / France. In France he initiated a series of digitally modified, non-documentary pictures and films that focused on a dehumanized nature of the infrastructure of roads and highways. Stepinski makes drawings,videos and intallations, takes pictures across Europe. His works have been exhibited in several galleries and Museums in China, England, France, Holland and for pass two years in Poland.
During his residency with 18th Street, Stepinski plans to begin a project that explores L.A.’s car culture through drawing, videos and photography.
www.stepinski.com
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