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Filo Sofi Arts
254 Broome street, New- York, NY, 10002
PRESS RELEASE
OUTTHERE
June 22nd– July 22nd, 2018
Opening: Friday, June 22nd, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Filo Sofi Arts is pleased to announce OUTTHERE, a group exhibition featuring artworks across mediums by Robert Balun, Bianca Boragi, Ricardo De Lima, Carlos Franco, Alex Jackson, Young Joo Lee, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Iman Raad, Stacy Scibelli and Julio Williams.
OUTTHERE is a group show that takes a cosmic perspective to explore the individual, the other, and meaning-making within the collective architectures of the 21st century, both globally and within the United States. This exhibition features an international group of nine emerging artists working in sculpture, video, painting, animation, costume and performance, and poetry.
Cosmos is an ancient Greek word that defines the universe as an ordered whole. Perhaps not orderly, but existing within a dynamic yet computational system of persistent interaction and change. Cosmos also implies the deep and literal inseparable interconnectivity of space and matter.
Within a colorful palette across media, patterns, surfaces, screens, repetitive structures, excavations, layers, people, floating, projecting themselves into space like particles, stars, golden particulates, and bodies of light and time emerge from the chaos of today to create critique and connection.
OUTTHERE is on view at 254 Broome street, New York, 10002, from June 22nd to July 22nd 2018, curated by Bianca Boragi, Wednesdays through Sundays, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM. For additional information and inquiries, please contact Gabrielle Aruta at 917-796-6010 or info@FiloSofiArts.com.
Robert Balun, (b.1986, New- York, NY) is an adjunct at The City College of New York, where he teaches creative writing and composition. His poems have recently appeared in TAGVVERK, Tammy, Prelude, Barrow Street, Poor Claudia, Apogee, Cosmonauts Avenue, and others. His chapbook, Self (Ceremony), is available from Finishing Line Press. He received his MFA from CCNY, where he was a recipient of the Jerome Lowell DeJur Prize for Poetry and the Teacher-Writer Award. www.robertbalun.com
Bianca Boragi, (b. 1985 Paris, France) is a sculptor, video artist, performer and curator. She received her MFA from Yale school of Art in May 2017 and obtained her BFA from the National Superior School of Arts of Paris- Cergy, France. Her works have been featured recently at Galerie Protege, The Border Space Project, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, La Guardia Center for the Performing Arts, Video Revival, and Anthology Film Archive. She has exhibited her sculptures and videos in France, Germany, India, Italy, Scotland, throughout the United States and was recently awarded the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights. She has received a Mass MOCA Assets for Artists grant and have been awarded residencies priorly at the Centquatre, Paris, France, Pact Zullverein, Essen, Germany, Cal'Arts, Los Angeles. www.biancaboragi.net
Ricardo De Lima is a Colombo-Venezuelan artist, technologist, curator, and DJ. He is the 2015 winner of the James and Audrey Foster Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and was the Subsamson resident at Samson Projects in the South End in the winter of 2014-2015. De Lima received the Kara Fournier Fellowship at Brandeis University and was a resident artist of the Department of Public Imagination, a social practice fellowship, working with Chelsea Collaborative in Chelsea, MA in 2013. He co-curates Pico Picante, a monthly transnational bass music and culture event and is currently attending the Rhode Island School of Design where he is a Master of Fine Arts Candidate. www.ricardodelima.org
Carlos Franco, (b. San Juan, Puerto Rico) holds degrees in Philosophy and Visual Art (University of Puerto Rico), and a Master in New Genres (San Francisco Art Institute). Has presented projects at the Lab, SOMARTs, the Thing Quarterly, Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco), Lvl3 Gallery (Chicago), NARS Foundation (New York), Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen), Quinta del Sordo (Madrid), Universidad de Medellín (Medellín), among other trackable geolocations. Recent fellowships/grants @ NARS Foundation (New York), Can Serrat (Catalunya), Mass MOCA (Massachusetts). Conferences @ Universidad Complutense, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos III (Madrid), San Francisco Art Institute (hosted by the College Arts Association). @francocnarf / www.cfrancomaldonado.com
Alex Jackson, (b.1993, Milwaukee, WI) received his MFA from Yale Painting and Printmaking.. He currently lives and works in New Haven, CT. His solo shows include Phantom Flesh (2017) at Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA, and a forthcoming solo show in Fall 2018 at Zevitas Marcus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Jackson has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Dumfries House Residency at The Royal Drawing School in Scotland, and Yale Norfolk. www.alexjacksonartist.com
Young Joo Lee, (b. 1987, Seoul, Korea) combines inspiration from her dreams with personal and political histories to create drawings, sculptures and films. Young Joo received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University, Meisterschuelerin in Film, Städelschule, Frankfurt a. M., Germany and BFA in painting at Hongik Arts University, Korea. Her two current solo shows include, OCHI Projects, Los Angeles and Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea. Young Joo is part of the two-year fellowship, Open Sessions at the Drawing Center (2018-2020). She is the recipient of the artist grant from Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture, Fulbright Scholarship, DAAD artist scholarship. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Echo Park Film Center, Cairo Video Festival, Anthology Film Archive NY, Korean American Film Festival NY, Basis e. V. Frankfurt, Opelvillen, Curitiba Biennial, HAU Berlin, Common Center Seoul. She has been awarded residencies at the Sanskriti Foundation in New Dehli India, Incheon Art Platform and MeetFactory Prague. www.youngjoolee.net
Virginia Lee Montgomery, (b. 1986, Houston, Texas) is a hybrid artist from Texas and New York. VLM received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2016 and her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Her art is in video, performance, sound, and sculpture. ENGAGEMENTS include AN UNBOUND KNOT IN THE WIND, Curator Alison Karasyk, CSS Bard, NY (2018), and OPEN MIND, Selva Aparicio and Virginia Lee Montgomery, CRUSH Curatorial, NY (2018), CRASH TEST, Curator Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2018), MATERIAL DEVIANCE, Curator Alexis Wilkinson, SculptureCenter, NY (2017), Screening at Harvard Film Archive, MA (2017), SOS ONSHORE OFFSHORE at MEYOHAS, NY (2016), ONSITE OFFSITE PARASITE, Yale University, CT (2016), THINGS YOU CAN'T UNTHINK, Curator Peta Rake, Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada (2016), and PARTICLE ACCELERATOR MEMORIAL PROJECT, Wright Nuclear Laboratory, CT (2015). She has been awarded residencies at Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Coast Time, The Shandaken Project at Storm King and The Vermont Studio Center; she was the recipient of Yale University’s Susan H. Wedon Award and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship 2016 Nominee in Sculpture. www.virginialeemontgomery.com
Iman Raad (b.1979, Mashhad, Iran) received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University (2017), and is the 2017-2018 Shandaken Projects’ Paint School fellow. He is currently living and working in Brooklyn. Iman Raad will be featured in the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia (2018). His recent solo exhibitions include Tongue Tied, Sargent's Daughters Gallery, New York (2017) and Forty Drawings and So, Dastan Gallery, Tehran (2016). Iman Raad's work presents a contradictory combination of beauty and fear. His work addresses humankind’s anxieties by staging a traumatic scene of a disturbance in reality. He foregrounds ornamental elements, which that inverting the art historical narrative of ornamentation. His work presents subjects like birds and fruits, that are extracted from traditionally decorative and neutral contexts and juxtaposed with present concerns and future plans. www.imanraad.com
Stacy Scibelli, (b.1982, Albany, USA) is an artist and designer living and working in Los Angeles. Stacy received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston in 2004 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2009. She is currently the Curriculum Chair of Fashion Design and Technology at SUNY’s Westchester Community College and the Program Coordinator and Lecturer of the Women in Creativity course at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Stacy has participated as an Artist in Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts and has received a Mass MOCA Assets for Artists grant, a Franklin Furnace Grant, and a project grant from Possible Futures in Atlanta GA. Stacy has shown work at Proof Gallery, the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham MA, the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, Present Company in DUMBO, and The Parlour Bushwick in Brooklyn. www.stacyascibelli.com
Julio Cesar Williams, (b.1979, Oakland, CA) received his BA from Indiana University in 2008. His work was featuFaction, Rogue Wave, Brooklyn and Pride Verboten. Williams creates paintings which depict a personal symbolism that references its own creation. Through a combination of painting and photography, he explores displacement as a framework for the two mediums to reimagine their relationships to ground and form. He lives and works in New York City. www.juliocesarwilliams.com
254 Broome street, New- York, NY, 10002
PRESS RELEASE
OUTTHERE
June 22nd– July 22nd, 2018
Opening: Friday, June 22nd, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Filo Sofi Arts is pleased to announce OUTTHERE, a group exhibition featuring artworks across mediums by Robert Balun, Bianca Boragi, Ricardo De Lima, Carlos Franco, Alex Jackson, Young Joo Lee, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Iman Raad, Stacy Scibelli and Julio Williams.
OUTTHERE is a group show that takes a cosmic perspective to explore the individual, the other, and meaning-making within the collective architectures of the 21st century, both globally and within the United States. This exhibition features an international group of nine emerging artists working in sculpture, video, painting, animation, costume and performance, and poetry.
Cosmos is an ancient Greek word that defines the universe as an ordered whole. Perhaps not orderly, but existing within a dynamic yet computational system of persistent interaction and change. Cosmos also implies the deep and literal inseparable interconnectivity of space and matter.
Within a colorful palette across media, patterns, surfaces, screens, repetitive structures, excavations, layers, people, floating, projecting themselves into space like particles, stars, golden particulates, and bodies of light and time emerge from the chaos of today to create critique and connection.
OUTTHERE is on view at 254 Broome street, New York, 10002, from June 22nd to July 22nd 2018, curated by Bianca Boragi, Wednesdays through Sundays, from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM. For additional information and inquiries, please contact Gabrielle Aruta at 917-796-6010 or info@FiloSofiArts.com.
Robert Balun, (b.1986, New- York, NY) is an adjunct at The City College of New York, where he teaches creative writing and composition. His poems have recently appeared in TAGVVERK, Tammy, Prelude, Barrow Street, Poor Claudia, Apogee, Cosmonauts Avenue, and others. His chapbook, Self (Ceremony), is available from Finishing Line Press. He received his MFA from CCNY, where he was a recipient of the Jerome Lowell DeJur Prize for Poetry and the Teacher-Writer Award. www.robertbalun.com
Bianca Boragi, (b. 1985 Paris, France) is a sculptor, video artist, performer and curator. She received her MFA from Yale school of Art in May 2017 and obtained her BFA from the National Superior School of Arts of Paris- Cergy, France. Her works have been featured recently at Galerie Protege, The Border Space Project, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, La Guardia Center for the Performing Arts, Video Revival, and Anthology Film Archive. She has exhibited her sculptures and videos in France, Germany, India, Italy, Scotland, throughout the United States and was recently awarded the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights. She has received a Mass MOCA Assets for Artists grant and have been awarded residencies priorly at the Centquatre, Paris, France, Pact Zullverein, Essen, Germany, Cal'Arts, Los Angeles. www.biancaboragi.net
Ricardo De Lima is a Colombo-Venezuelan artist, technologist, curator, and DJ. He is the 2015 winner of the James and Audrey Foster Prize from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and was the Subsamson resident at Samson Projects in the South End in the winter of 2014-2015. De Lima received the Kara Fournier Fellowship at Brandeis University and was a resident artist of the Department of Public Imagination, a social practice fellowship, working with Chelsea Collaborative in Chelsea, MA in 2013. He co-curates Pico Picante, a monthly transnational bass music and culture event and is currently attending the Rhode Island School of Design where he is a Master of Fine Arts Candidate. www.ricardodelima.org
Carlos Franco, (b. San Juan, Puerto Rico) holds degrees in Philosophy and Visual Art (University of Puerto Rico), and a Master in New Genres (San Francisco Art Institute). Has presented projects at the Lab, SOMARTs, the Thing Quarterly, Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco), Lvl3 Gallery (Chicago), NARS Foundation (New York), Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen), Quinta del Sordo (Madrid), Universidad de Medellín (Medellín), among other trackable geolocations. Recent fellowships/grants @ NARS Foundation (New York), Can Serrat (Catalunya), Mass MOCA (Massachusetts). Conferences @ Universidad Complutense, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos III (Madrid), San Francisco Art Institute (hosted by the College Arts Association). @francocnarf / www.cfrancomaldonado.com
Alex Jackson, (b.1993, Milwaukee, WI) received his MFA from Yale Painting and Printmaking.. He currently lives and works in New Haven, CT. His solo shows include Phantom Flesh (2017) at Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA, and a forthcoming solo show in Fall 2018 at Zevitas Marcus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Jackson has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Dumfries House Residency at The Royal Drawing School in Scotland, and Yale Norfolk. www.alexjacksonartist.com
Young Joo Lee, (b. 1987, Seoul, Korea) combines inspiration from her dreams with personal and political histories to create drawings, sculptures and films. Young Joo received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University, Meisterschuelerin in Film, Städelschule, Frankfurt a. M., Germany and BFA in painting at Hongik Arts University, Korea. Her two current solo shows include, OCHI Projects, Los Angeles and Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea. Young Joo is part of the two-year fellowship, Open Sessions at the Drawing Center (2018-2020). She is the recipient of the artist grant from Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture, Fulbright Scholarship, DAAD artist scholarship. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Echo Park Film Center, Cairo Video Festival, Anthology Film Archive NY, Korean American Film Festival NY, Basis e. V. Frankfurt, Opelvillen, Curitiba Biennial, HAU Berlin, Common Center Seoul. She has been awarded residencies at the Sanskriti Foundation in New Dehli India, Incheon Art Platform and MeetFactory Prague. www.youngjoolee.net
Virginia Lee Montgomery, (b. 1986, Houston, Texas) is a hybrid artist from Texas and New York. VLM received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2016 and her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008. Her art is in video, performance, sound, and sculpture. ENGAGEMENTS include AN UNBOUND KNOT IN THE WIND, Curator Alison Karasyk, CSS Bard, NY (2018), and OPEN MIND, Selva Aparicio and Virginia Lee Montgomery, CRUSH Curatorial, NY (2018), CRASH TEST, Curator Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2018), MATERIAL DEVIANCE, Curator Alexis Wilkinson, SculptureCenter, NY (2017), Screening at Harvard Film Archive, MA (2017), SOS ONSHORE OFFSHORE at MEYOHAS, NY (2016), ONSITE OFFSITE PARASITE, Yale University, CT (2016), THINGS YOU CAN'T UNTHINK, Curator Peta Rake, Walter Phillips Gallery, Canada (2016), and PARTICLE ACCELERATOR MEMORIAL PROJECT, Wright Nuclear Laboratory, CT (2015). She has been awarded residencies at Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Coast Time, The Shandaken Project at Storm King and The Vermont Studio Center; she was the recipient of Yale University’s Susan H. Wedon Award and the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship 2016 Nominee in Sculpture. www.virginialeemontgomery.com
Iman Raad (b.1979, Mashhad, Iran) received his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University (2017), and is the 2017-2018 Shandaken Projects’ Paint School fellow. He is currently living and working in Brooklyn. Iman Raad will be featured in the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia (2018). His recent solo exhibitions include Tongue Tied, Sargent's Daughters Gallery, New York (2017) and Forty Drawings and So, Dastan Gallery, Tehran (2016). Iman Raad's work presents a contradictory combination of beauty and fear. His work addresses humankind’s anxieties by staging a traumatic scene of a disturbance in reality. He foregrounds ornamental elements, which that inverting the art historical narrative of ornamentation. His work presents subjects like birds and fruits, that are extracted from traditionally decorative and neutral contexts and juxtaposed with present concerns and future plans. www.imanraad.com
Stacy Scibelli, (b.1982, Albany, USA) is an artist and designer living and working in Los Angeles. Stacy received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Fashion Design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston in 2004 and a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2009. She is currently the Curriculum Chair of Fashion Design and Technology at SUNY’s Westchester Community College and the Program Coordinator and Lecturer of the Women in Creativity course at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Stacy has participated as an Artist in Residence at the Boston Center for the Arts and has received a Mass MOCA Assets for Artists grant, a Franklin Furnace Grant, and a project grant from Possible Futures in Atlanta GA. Stacy has shown work at Proof Gallery, the Danforth Art Museum in Framingham MA, the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, Present Company in DUMBO, and The Parlour Bushwick in Brooklyn. www.stacyascibelli.com
Julio Cesar Williams, (b.1979, Oakland, CA) received his BA from Indiana University in 2008. His work was featuFaction, Rogue Wave, Brooklyn and Pride Verboten. Williams creates paintings which depict a personal symbolism that references its own creation. Through a combination of painting and photography, he explores displacement as a framework for the two mediums to reimagine their relationships to ground and form. He lives and works in New York City. www.juliocesarwilliams.com