Tia-Simone Gardner (Philadelphia, PA)

A mixed- media artist working in methods of appropriation and installation, Tia-Simone Gardner investigates a personal and collective experience of Birmingham, Alabama, her place of birth. She is interested in psychological relationships to locations and spaces and the idea of home. Gardner recently completed her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Lawrence Getubig (Newton, MA)

Lawrence Getubig is interested in childhood fantasies.  Growing up in the Philippines in the 1970s and 1980s, Lawrence’s childhood memories are filled with the comic books, cartoons and television of the Western World.  For his cardboard cutout series, which he will continue work on while in Woodstock, Lawrence places himself as one of the characters in this fantasy world. His person examination has revealed his glorification of the white American male as a childhood hero.  These narratives investigate the root of confusing these attitudes towards race beginning in childhood.

www.lawrencegetubig.com  

Daniel Handal (New York, NY)

Daniel Handal’s photographic work explores subcultures, unique communities, and those living on the fringes of society.  During his residency in Woodstock, Daniel will focus on his series which investigates organic farming in the Hudson Valley and the small exodus of educated 20 and 30-somethings that have left New York City and the opportunities of traditional work for the rural.  While Daniel is concerned with the changing values of this generation, and the political, environmental, and health concerns of the organic farming movement, he is most interested in documenting this emerging fringe community.   

www.danielhandal.com

Wayne Hodge (New York, NY)

Wayne Hodge’s artwork investigates the influence of historical theater on contemporary visual culture and its role in transforming ideologies of race.  He is particularly interested in the work of early Black performers from the 1920s and 1930s, like Bert Williams, who were some of the first prominent Black figures in the cultural mainstream. These performers have shaped contemporary associations with the Black body. Sourcing gestures and movements from theater and film performances of the past, Wayne creates images and short films placing himself in the role of the Black male.  

While in residency at CPW, Wayne will continue his most recent work, a series of digital collages based on imagery used in his film performances, The Original Comedy. 

Donna J. Wan (Menlo Park, CA)

Donna J. Wan investigates of perceptions of landscape.  Drawing from the cultural references of the iconic, the monumental, and the symbolic, her photographs also depict man’s impact upon the land.  

During her residency at CPW, she will revisit the landscapes of artists Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Asher Durand, and Jasper Francis Cropsey, including such locations as Catskill Creek, Kaaterskill Falls, and North-South Lake. Inspired by a desire to revisit  mythologized perceptions of the landscape, Wan's work raises such questions as, “Does land, sea or mountain still represent places we can project our hopes, fears, and desires? Or, have we become alienated from it and only respond strongly to it when we are shown images of its devastation?  What does landscape now mean for us?”  

www.donnajwan.com