2018 Goetemann Artist Residency
The Goetemann Artist Residency is pleased to introduce the five artists selected to participate in this, our 14th season. Conceived by the late Gordon Goetemann (1933-2016) as an educational vehicle to help local artists stay informed of trends in the art world, the Goetemann Artist Residency has become the unrivaled success of The Rocky Neck Art Colony.
Over the years the program has evolved from the original three juried artist residents and added The Distinguished Artist/Teacher, The Gloucester Invitational Artist and the Environmental Installation Artist. All residents enjoy a rent free, month long retreat, to create their work in a live/work studio on Gloucester’s Madfish Wharf.
The all-volunteer staff of 8 artists meet each resident and help to make their stay welcoming and productive.
Terry Del Percio | PAINTER: Gloucester Invitational Artist, May 2018
The Gloucester Invitational Artist Residency was created by former Director Ruth Mordecai as a gift to a deserving Gloucester artist.. Applicants do not apply for this residency, they are nominated and juried by our committee.
A New York transplant, Terry Del Percio has lived in Gloucester for the past 15 years. Refusing to put labels on her painting style, Del Percio suggests it lands somewhere between abstraction and expressionism. Her work is driven by deep emotion and internal conversations. A self-taught artist, Terry was chosen by the Residency Committee as the 2018 Gloucester Invitational Artist because of her determination to pursue a love of painting after life in the business world. Paintings alive with color and a playful sense of humor infuse Terry’s work and endear her to the Gloucester art community.
Opening Conversation at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck: May 3, 7pm
Closing Talk at the Goetemann Residency Studio: May 29, 7pm
Maggie Dubris | SOUND ARTIST: Goetemann Artist Resident, June 2018
The first Goetemann Residency Artist of 2018 is Sound Artist, composer and writer, Maggie Dubris.
Maggie lives in New York City and began working with sound that was not originally meant to be musical, combining multiple elements into immersive audio as part of multimedia installations. Her soundscape work with artists Linda Byrne, Scott Gillis, and Sang-ah Choi has been exhibited in New York NY, Pittsburgh PA, Portland OR, and was featured in the longlist/ catalogue for The International Sea exhibition in Oronsko, Poland. Two years ago she began doing field recording as part of a week-long workshop with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and has continued recording in urban and remote settings. For her Gloucester residency she will be doing both field and underwater recordings to create a new piece inspired by the way birds and marine mammals hear the world.
Opening Conversation at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck: June 4, 7 pm
Closing Talk at the Goetemann Residency Studio: June 28, 7 pm
Martin Swift | FIGURATIVE PAINTER: Goetemann Artist Resident, July 2018
In July 2018, the Goetemann Artist Residency welcomed Martin Swift, a Washington DC based painter and illustrator who focuses on contemporary figurative realism and absurdist narrative.
Through oil paintings and detailed pen and ink drawings, he investigates compelling ideas of gender, sexuality, childhood uncertainty, and science fiction. Martin Swift graduated with a BFA in Painting from Carnegie Mellon in 2012, and has shown internationally in Berlin, London, New York, Washington DC, and Pittsburgh.
Opening Conversation at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck: July 2, 7 pm
Closing Talk at the Goetemann Residency Studio: July July 30, 7 pm
Kathy Liao: Goetemann Distinguished Artist/Teacher, August 2018
Each year the Residency Committee chooses a teacher with an exceptional presence in the art world to join us for a week on Rocky Neck. The Goetemann Artists Residency is pleased to announce Kathy Liao as our 2018 Distinguished Artist/Teacher. The artist will present her work in a lecture at The Cape Ann Museum followed by a four day workshop. A 2011 Goetemann Artist Resident and Boston University MFA graduate, Liao has gone on to distinguish herself, winning accolades and awards around the country, including a recent three year studio grant from StudiosINC in Kansas City.
Kathy Liao’s mixed media work is about the intimate yet universal concept of relationships. “I think a lot about the distance we experience around us. There are moments when we experience an intimate connection, whether through physical touch or compressed onto the same screen during FaceTime calls. I project my thoughts and my experiences onto the canvas and the image pushes back. The result is an intimate back and forth conversation between myself and the work.”
Kathy Liao currently resides in Kansas City, MO, and teaches at Missouri Western State University as the Director of the Painting and Printmaking Studio Art Program. Liao received her MFA in Painting from Boston University and her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Washington, Seattle. She is a recipient of various awards including the Studios INC Studio Residency Program, Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency, Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Grant, among others. Liao taught at Boston University, The University of Washington, Seattle University, and Gage Academy of Art.
Conversation with the Artist at the Cape Ann Museum: August 5, 2 pm
4-day Workshop at Montserrat College of Art, Hardy Building: August 6-9
Deborah Redwood | SCULPTOR: Environmental Installation Artist, September 2018
Launched as a new program last year, this year’s Environmental Installation Artist will once again create work outdoors for the enjoyment of all. Deborah Redwood, a sculptor and Installation artist from Australia, will work at the end of Rocky Neck on the property of Ocean Alliance. Our partnership last season with Ocean Alliance was so successful that we are thrilled to be able to present there once again. The artist states, ”My work concerns entropy, that is, the breakdown of objects and systems into unstable and often chaotic states. My focus at present is on climate change and the breakdown of many balancing systems.” Adept at construction and metalworking, Deborah has proposed welding a metal sculpture related to the research work done by Ocean Alliance, which works to promote healthy oceans and marine mammal protection.
A graduate from the College of Fine Arts (Sydney), for the past decade Deborah has participated in group and solo exhibitions using recycled materials, particularly metal both in Australia and overseas, including; Japan, China, India and the USA. Redwood’s work. Redwood has been a finalist in many well-known Australian Sculpture events such as: Sculpture by the Sea, SWELL Sculpture Festival, Sculpture in the Vineyards and Sculpture at Scenic World.
Opening Conversation at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck: September 4, 7 pm
Closing Talk: September 28, 7 pm
Azita Moradkhani | ARTIST/ILLUSTRATOR: Goetemann Artist Resident, September/October 2018
October signals the closing of The Goetemann Artist Residency season and brings with it our final artist resident.
Azita Moradkhani was born in Tehran where she was exposed to Persian art and culture as well as Iranian politics, and that double exposure increased her sensitivity to the dynamics of vulnerability and violence that she explores in her work and art-making process. She received her BFA from Tehran University of Art and both her MA in Art Education and her MFA in drawing, painting & sculpture from Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts & Tufts University. The female body, and its exposure to different social norms, is central to Moradkhani’s work. Through her drawings and body castings, she is examining displacement as an unnatural state we experience when we find ourselves insecure in our own body.
She was a recipient of both the Young Masters Art Prize and the Young Masters Emerging Woman Art Prize in London in 2017 and also received the Saint Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artists Grant that same year. She was juried into the prestigious Medal Award Gala auction at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2015.
Artist Conversation at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck: October 2, 7 pm
Closing Talk at the Goetemann Residency StudioOctober 26, 7 pm