While in residence at CPW, each artist will receive 24/7 access to professional workspace including CPW's digital and traditional darkrooms, critical and technical support, housing, travel & food stipend, and honoraria. In addition all participating artists in the 2008 WOODSTOCK A-I-R program will meet with one of CPW two "critics-in-residence", Brian Wallace (Curator, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz) and Miriam Romais (Executive Director, En Foco).
Our thanks to our this year's panelists for their careful consideration of all the applications we received. The 2008 panel included; Elvis Fuentes, Curator, El Museo del Barrio; Kwabena Slaughter, 2005 A-I-R; and Ariel Shanberg, Executive Director, Center for Photography at Woodstock.
The 2008 program is made possible in part with support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art.
Lupita
Murillo Tinnen (Planos, TX)
Throughout her photographic career, Tinnen's work has focused on the
Mexican immigrant community. A child of Mexican immigrants Tinnen
photographs offer a glimpse into the daily life and space of her people.
She focuses on the simple details of domestic spaces which tell the story
of the people through mundane objects and cultural icons. ...(from
Tinnen's artist statement)
Hee
Jin Kang (New York City)
I am drawn to photographic projects where I can explore one place
repeatedly. Whether in the confines of my parents' small convenience
store, or at the grounds of a family-run funfair, I continuously come back
to the same place and retrace my own steps. It is exciting to discover new
photographs in a space I have already trodden through because it confirms
my hunch that there is always something to photograph. In a sense, it is
the most optimistic way of looking...(from her artist statement)
www.heejinkang.com
Tarrah
Krajnak (Winooski, VT) & Wilka Roig (Ithaca, NY)
As "collaborative/women/minority" artists, we actively explore
the sameness and difference within the construct of identity, and the role
and meaning of signifiers. We continually work with self-portraiture
addressing issues of gender, body, and representation within various
sociological contexts, engaging in the processes of photography as
performance...(from their artist statement)
Tim
Portlock (Philadelphia, PA)
My work is an attempt to describe the cultural and social changes that
have occurred in urban space since the end of the industrial era in
America. I am especially interested by the crisis this shift has
placed on established notions of community and the cultural
vocabularies used to navigate the physical and cultural aspects of
urban space....(from his artist statement)
LaToya
Ruby Frazier (New Brunswick, NJ)
I have been photographing my family in Pittsburgh, PA for the past
five years. The work primarily deals with my complex relationship with
my 81-year old grandmother, who played the role of mother to me, my
drug addicted mom and myself....(from her artist statement)
Justine
Reyes (New York City)
Identity, history, and time are the main subject matter explored in my
work. As I see it, a collective shift in perception has taken place
since 9/11. We are living in a more globalized world then ever before
and that forces many of us to reexamine our position within it. Not
only our national identity but also how we view ourselves as
individuals and the ways in which we relate to others has
changed...This has in large part brought me to my most current bodies
of work many of which include my family, the idea of leaving and
returning home, and the longing to hold on to things that are
ephemeral and transitory in nature....(from her artist statement)
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