January 2016 Red Gate Residents
Jan 01,2016
Jason Cordero, Painter, Australia
I am an Australian painter who has focused predominantly on landscape with a particular interest in the sublime. Of late I have produced works which are not portraits of place but consider the concepts of wilderness and narrative. Using traditional and digital media and I aim to explore the sublime of a built environment; as an ancient and contemporary capital, Beijing promises to be an absorbing subject.
John Domont, Painter, Photographer, Poet, United States
I am from the American Midwest, Indianapolis, Indiana. As a artist I have traveled around the world in pursuit of beauty and human dignity.
My art is about presence and place.
I spend my days painting, photographing, writing poetry. I feel that my artworks reflect the moments, places, and guideposts of a human journey – a journey with art, in which I include themes, ideas and realities common to all humanity and the beauty of our time and place.
Longshaohua, Painter, China
Long Shaohua was born in 1960 in Linfen City, Shanxi province, he came to Beijing in 2007 and stayed in Songzhuang art village since.
Raphaela Melsohn, Multidisciplinary, Brazil
I'm a Brazilian artist and my project during the residency consists in developing and investigating ways of communicating by drawing. Based on the structure of Chinese ideogram I want to do performances in which the drawing acts as media for translating myself on chosen situations.
In a country that I barely speak the language, being a foreign, displaced, I understand that I have to develop another way of thinking and also communicating. I usually work with different medias, according to what my research and work demand.
Anja Ronacher, Photography, Austria
Kanako Tada, Painting, Japan
Hi, my name is Kanako. I'm base in Tokyo. I've finished MFA on 2015.I paint a portrait. My works all of Images borrow from magazine, Internet, books and so on. I choose a women's images. In Beijing, I keep my works more deeply and dig inside, some works in another residency in Shanghai I will do continue. On the other hand, I really want to know or talk about women's image of China, or other than countries artist, or people.
Rebecca Wilson, Paiting, Writing, Australia
RESEARCHING CHINESE CULTURE, STORIES AND HISTORY TO DEVELOP AND ASSIST WITH FUTURE CREATIVE PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS.
Christina Marie Walley
Christina Marie Walley is a visual artist from New Jersey, United States of America, who truly enjoys exploring how the human body interacts with external environments focusing primarily on the topic of body heat and electromagnetic waves through the application of various technologies.
She has a Bachelors Degree of Science with a Major in Psychology and a Minor in Visual Arts and Architecture from Roger Williams University in Bristol Rhode Island. After graduating she embarked on an adventure of travel through the United States of America and Asia. While traveling Christina was able to work in several occupational fields and in various environments. During this adventure she realized that her one true passion in life was creating art.
Christina is currently pursuing her MFA degree at San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California. In addition to her schooling she is also working in the Audio Visual Check Out at SFAI, as Freelance Photographer and Co-directing an apartment gallery called Red House Gallery. She hopes to one day teach college courses at a university and open an independent Art & Music Venue with her husband in Beijing, China.
