ARTS Southeast is pleased to present ON::View Revue, an annual exhibition featuring the previous year’s ON::View Artists-in-Residence. ON::View Revue presents work created during each artist’s Residency and afterward, surveying their recent explorations and presenting them in conversation with one another.
In the ON::View Residency in February and March, Libbi Ponce (FL/Ecuador/CA) became ON::View’s first Resident ever to be awarded a two-month stay, producing large-scale sculptures in materials ranging from metal to fiberglass. In the spring, Kiara Gilbert (Atlanta, GA) took printmaking into the sculptural realm with suspended paper forms and expanded their research centering queer lineage. Nashville-based painter John Paul Kesling worked with ARTS Southeast in a variety of capacities this year, with a prolific Residency in May followed by a summer solo exhibition in The Ellis Gallery and an Artist Spotlight in IMPACT Magazine Vol 3 No 1.
Summer Residents offered us ways of experiencing the Residency space itself like never before. In June, Ontario-based duo Leslie Putnam and David Bobier brought us a unique community experience through their inclusive, holistic practice. Their transformation of the Residency window into a vibrotactile surface allowed visitors and passerby to experience haptic empathy through touch. In July, Gweny Jin (Columbus, OH) considered the Residency through an architectural lens, responding to light and shadow with a structural installation that evolved with time. In August, Asma Khoshmehr (Boston, MA) welcomed us into a poignant and personal multimedia installation telling an intimate family story through virtual reality, with inspiration drawn from Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights.
In September, award-winning NY-based filmmaker Brydie O’Connor continued her project The Roaming Center for Memory using digitized archival elements that show queer life in the South and Midwest. In October, New Zealand-based collective Miki Seifert and William Franco drew the Residency year to a close with Azucar/Sugar, researching Georgia’s role in the history of the sugar trade and creating an ofrenda with sugar skulls in conjunction with Dia de Muertos.
We’re also proud to include ARTS Southeast’s inaugural Incubator Artist, Savannah-based Charles Mack, whose interdisciplinary work considers design and perspective from a nonlinear lens. The Incubator Artist Initiative provides a local emerging artist with a year-long residency including a free studio, memberships to ARTS Southeast, Telfair Museums and SCAD MOA, as well as mentorship, professional practice, and exhibition opportunities.
Our programming is made possible with investment by the City of Savannah. “ON::View Revue” is made possible with support from Gulfstream Aerospace.
The ON::View and Incubator Residency Programs are sponsored in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency - the National Endowment for the Arts.
Special thanks to our local Residency Sponsors:
Starlandia Supply, Telfair Museums, SCAD Museum of Art, Green Truck Pub, and Starland Yard.
