Alumna Rosa Nussbaum (MFA in Studio Art, 2018) has been selected to take part in two residency programs this spring: Elsewhere and Philadelphia's Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR) program.
Elsewhere's unique residency program, ongoing since 2004, has residents create site-specific projects in or around Elsewhere’s 100-year-old building. Whereas RAIR's program is situated inside a construction and demolition waste recycling company in northeast Philadelphia, offering studio space and access to more than 450 tons of materials per day. RAIR's mission challenges the perception of waste culture by providing a unique platform for artists at the intersection of art and industry, which includes its innovative residency program for artists in all points of their career.
Later in the spring, Austin-based gallery Women & Their Work will present a solo exhibition of Nussbaum's work titled Horizonland.
"I have been searching for contingence and dependence, and found it in the position of the passenger; always alongside, passive, carried by forces that are not my own," writes Nussbaum. "In Horizonland I try to attune the body to this way of seeing through performance, slideshow installations, video, and sculpture. I have started thinking of the car as a lens, focusing and reshaping the world around me; as an orientation device, extending and folding the body; flowing along the creamy loops of the single lane overpasses, pale and free against the deepening blue of the evening."
Horizonland will be on view from April 27 - June 6, 2019.