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MAKING SPACE
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SUPERFRONT is proud to present the work of FRANCISCA BENITEZ and
PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI in MAKING SPACE, the first annual SUPERFRONT
Architects-in-Residence exhibit. In MAKING SPACE, SUPERFRONT’s two
Architects-in-Residence explore the notion of residency in New York.
Both artists/architects have responded to SUPERFRONT’s spatial identity
as rooted in its location in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI, trained as an architect, has literally resided in
SUPERFRONT’s artist studio space during the past 5 months, producing
work that explores personal affections through architectural methods.
Niedzwiecki’s ink drawings often reference musical composition as an
architectural language. One series of hand drawings finds a new
permanence as a tattoo on his body. The personal language of form that
emerges is further transformed as Niedzwiecki installs his studies
spatially, in the form of a carved and painted door and an installation
built into existing walls.
FRANCISCA BENITEZ explores what it means to inhabit New York’s
system of public spaces, from public housing to Brooklyn sidewalks.
Alongside her own highly political and conceptual series of graphite
rubbings of built surfaces, Benitez exhibits pieces made by or in
conjunction with residents of public housing. Through her work with
senior citizens and youth in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)
community centers in Brooklyn, Benitez exhibits collaborative works on
paper and physical models that continue her investigation of the
everyday social life of urban architecture.
MAKING SPACE will be on view at SUPERFRONT from January 3 – March 27.
This exhibit and the Architects-in-Residence program are partly
enabled by generous donations from Nilizandr Gilbert and Sarah Millsaps.
ABOUT THE SUPERFRONT ARCHITECTS-IN-RESIDENCE
FRANCISCA BENITEZ, Architect-in-Residence Summer/Fall 2009, has been
a New York based artist since 1998. Her work investigates and comments
on the ways individuals, groups and society inhabit space. She chooses
medium according to each specific project, including video,
photography, drawing and performance. She graduated as an architect
from the Universidad de Chile in 1998 and later studied art at Hunter
College CUNY, where she completed her MFA in 2007. Her work has been
exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia, most recently at the
Beijing Biennale, China; Lokal.int in Biel, Switzerland; The Jewish
Museum, Smack Mellon and Exit Art in New York, US. She has been awarded
an independent project grant from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a FONDART grant from the Chilean Government and a Lambent
fellowship from the TIDES foundation.
PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI,
Architect-in-Residence Summer/Fall 2009, uses his technical skills as a
designer and craftsmen to produce large-scale artwork in mixed media.
Exploring digital laser cutting technology, as well as hand-crafted
wood work, his creative practice is grounded by his rigorous and
beautiful hand-drawings. He holds a Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts
in Architecture, as well as a Masters of Architecture, both from the
Savannah College of Art and Design.
PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI in MAKING SPACE, the first annual SUPERFRONT
Architects-in-Residence exhibit. In MAKING SPACE, SUPERFRONT’s two
Architects-in-Residence explore the notion of residency in New York.
Both artists/architects have responded to SUPERFRONT’s spatial identity
as rooted in its location in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI, trained as an architect, has literally resided in
SUPERFRONT’s artist studio space during the past 5 months, producing
work that explores personal affections through architectural methods.
Niedzwiecki’s ink drawings often reference musical composition as an
architectural language. One series of hand drawings finds a new
permanence as a tattoo on his body. The personal language of form that
emerges is further transformed as Niedzwiecki installs his studies
spatially, in the form of a carved and painted door and an installation
built into existing walls.
FRANCISCA BENITEZ explores what it means to inhabit New York’s
system of public spaces, from public housing to Brooklyn sidewalks.
Alongside her own highly political and conceptual series of graphite
rubbings of built surfaces, Benitez exhibits pieces made by or in
conjunction with residents of public housing. Through her work with
senior citizens and youth in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)
community centers in Brooklyn, Benitez exhibits collaborative works on
paper and physical models that continue her investigation of the
everyday social life of urban architecture.
MAKING SPACE will be on view at SUPERFRONT from January 3 – March 27.
This exhibit and the Architects-in-Residence program are partly
enabled by generous donations from Nilizandr Gilbert and Sarah Millsaps.
ABOUT THE SUPERFRONT ARCHITECTS-IN-RESIDENCE
FRANCISCA BENITEZ, Architect-in-Residence Summer/Fall 2009, has been
a New York based artist since 1998. Her work investigates and comments
on the ways individuals, groups and society inhabit space. She chooses
medium according to each specific project, including video,
photography, drawing and performance. She graduated as an architect
from the Universidad de Chile in 1998 and later studied art at Hunter
College CUNY, where she completed her MFA in 2007. Her work has been
exhibited in the Americas, Europe and Asia, most recently at the
Beijing Biennale, China; Lokal.int in Biel, Switzerland; The Jewish
Museum, Smack Mellon and Exit Art in New York, US. She has been awarded
an independent project grant from the New York State Council on the
Arts, a FONDART grant from the Chilean Government and a Lambent
fellowship from the TIDES foundation.
PAWEL NIEDZWIECKI,
Architect-in-Residence Summer/Fall 2009, uses his technical skills as a
designer and craftsmen to produce large-scale artwork in mixed media.
Exploring digital laser cutting technology, as well as hand-crafted
wood work, his creative practice is grounded by his rigorous and
beautiful hand-drawings. He holds a Bachelor of Fine and Applied Arts
in Architecture, as well as a Masters of Architecture, both from the
Savannah College of Art and Design.
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