Studio Fellow 2021
Nicolette Lim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus in installation and a core in drawing. Originally from Malaysia, she moved to the states in 2014, and graduated in the Fall of 2018 from the University of Kentucky with a BFA in Studio Arts. Working across different mediums such as printmaking, animation and sculpture, her work depict queerness in the context of her home country Malaysia, where violence is an inherited norm from its colonizers. She investigates these affects on the queer experience today and the false norms that have been taken as inevitable. Nicolette currently resides in Chicago.
Image: Nicolette Lim, Twelve Canes, Graphite drawings, twigs, yarn 7ft x 3ft, 2018
Website:
www.nicolettelim.com
Studio Fellow 2021
Sara Sukhun is an artist and designer with a BFA in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut and an MFA in Visual Communication Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has worked with the Palestinian Museum, Dar el-Nimer art gallery, and the Social Justice in the City program at the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy. She is the recipient of a New Artist Society Award from SAIC and the First Prize Areen Projects Award for Excellence in Graphic Design from AUB.
Image: Sara Sukhun, A Worldly Flatness, silkscreen on muslin and digital collage, 81.5 x 32.5 in., 2019
Website:
www.sarasukhun.com
Studio Fellow 2021
Esmeralda Reyes is a Mexican-American artist born in Grand Haven, Michigan. She is a printmaker focused on intaglio and lithography. Esmeralda graduated from Kendall College of Art & Design in 2020 with a BFA in Printmaking and a minor in Illustration. Esmeralda’s printmaking style is informed by her illustrative background. Her work focuses on human relationships, traits, stereotypes, and combining humans with animals that share physical and metaphorical similarities. Her work that was featured at the Fresh Looks Exhibition at Eastern Michigan University made her a Windgate Fellowship nominee for her precise craft.
Image:Esmeralda Reyes, Untitled, Lithogaphy, 13”x9”
Website:
Instagram: @esmeralda_illustrations
Studio Fellow 2021
Rachel Jackson graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in the spring of 2019 with a degree in Communication Design. Her practice is largely guided by principles of collectivism and accessibility, and reflects a personal attempt to decentralize the elitism she feels is ever-present in Western design aesthetics. Rachel is most interested in the application of design when it comes to democratic, household objects, including t-shirts, zines, and mass-produced prints. She’s often drawn to appropriating imagery from found materials, dually as an investigation of what factors led to its disposal and as an effort to reinvigorate visual languages of the past.
Image: Rachel Jackson, Guided by a Communal Spirit, hardcover, perfect bound, 160 pages, printed on Mohawk Superfine Ultra White Eggshell 60lb, 12″ x 8.5″, 2019
Studio Fellow 2021
Riley Brady is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer with practices in publication design, illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft. Her work centers on themes of loneliness, memory, religion, and control.
Image credit: Riley Brady, Terrace 5 (I couldn’t possibly), etching and hand-embroidery, 2021
Riley’s Instagram: instagram.com/anarchy_emoji/
Website:
www.rileybrady.com
I am an interdisciplinary artist who combines traditional fiber processes, found materials, animation, light, and video to create multi-dimensional installations and paintings. My work is an extended meditation on the intersection of impermanence and regeneration. I combine found and newly made materials to create fragile, transient structures that echo the fragility of our material systems. Salvaged residues from the urban environment are transmuted and given new lives in my studio. A broken light grid, once used to diffuse and scatter light in an office complex becomes a light and color machine. Weathered fishing ropes from a junkyard in Maine lend their history and resonance to my sculptural weavings. Wildflowers collected in empty lots throughout the city become vibrant natural dyes. I reuse materials over and over, further connecting the work to the ethics of recycling and regeneration. Each project builds on the last, often deconstructing and reconstructing elements of previous installations and paintings responding to the architecture and context of each site or surface.
Website:
marabaker.com/
Residency Period:
May 2021–Jun 2021
Project Statement:
A variable edition of monotypes, collagraphs, and screen prints reflecting the leftover remnants from my studio practice and site specific installation.
Products by this Artist:
Sarah Bloom Studio is the multidisciplinary visual art studio of Sarah Bloom, a Chicago based maker and over-thinker. With a focus on thoughtful and fun design, she aims to bring joy to those who interact with her work. Sarah’s experience in a variety of design disciplines have informed her visual storytelling abilities in a unique and eclectic way. Her tactile nature and experience with traditional printmaking led to her love of all things letterpress.
Services Offered:
- Graphic Design
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.sarahbloomstudio.com
William’s art and teaching is a collaborative discourse of existing images, text, and politics that appoints the audience to critically re-examine public and private spaces. As a teacher, artist, and cultural worker he reports, records, reveals, and amplifies experiences you find in academic books, school halls, teacher lounges, kitchen tables, barrios, college campuses, and in the conversations of close friends to engage in radical imagination. William is currently engaging in collaborative work with the Mobilize Creative Collaborative, Chicago ACT Collective, and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative.
Website:
werdmvmntstudios.com/home.html
Member
I am a Malaysian born artist that is currently based in Chicago. I work across mediums with a core in drawing and print. My work seeks to expose the inherited myths of inevitable violence created by the colonizers in Malaysian history, and how it has affected the queer community, women and the environment in my home country.
Services Offered:
- Illustration
- Printmaking Commissions
Website:
www.nicolettelim.com
