Meet September’s Artists-in-Residence
Joaquin Segura, Rashawn Griffin and Ruth Patir
This month’s residency is generously sponsored by Britta Jacobson and Phil Berlinski
Joaquin Segura
Joaquin Segura is a visual artist who lives and works in Mexico City. His artistic practice is centered around meditations on the phenomenology of history, power, and truth, and on an extended engagement with notions of sociopolitical microclimates, asymmetrical history and ideology in the contemporary world. He is currently undergoing long-term research and development on projects that address concerns such as identity in an age of acute instability and the ontological significance of dissent, radicality and failure with a particular emphasis on materiality. This exploration is through media as diverse as sculpture, installation, photography, video, archive research and text-based work.
His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Segura is also a founding member and board advisor at SOMA, Mexico City and currently serves on the Board of Directors at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE.
Rashawn Griffin
Rashawn Griffin works in painting, sculpture, and installation. With materials ranging from fabric and tassels to paint and cookies, his practice uses poetic relationships between objects, architecture, and painting. Often pushing the boundaries between object and installation, his work challenges viewers to engage in their own past experiences when confronting his art. Griffin’s installations explore the relationship between architecture and the traditions of painting with a series of stretched fabric walls; as the picture becomes the space, the pictorial space highlights the architecture.
He was born in Los Angeles, California and received a MFA from Yale University. Griffin was a 2006 resident of the Studio Museum in Harlem’s AIR program. Since then, his work has been exhibited widely, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial, a two-person exhibition at the Studio Museum *with artist Senga Nengudi (RSVP), as well as “Freeway Balconies” at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany, and “THREADS: Textiles and Fiber in the works of African American Artists” at EK Projects in Beijing, China. Griffin was the subject of the solo exhibition “A hole-in-the-wall country” at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas, as well as participating in the exhibition “Minimal Baroque” at Rønnebæksholm in Næstved, Denmark.
Ruth Patir
Ruth Patir is a multimedia artist and filmmaker whose works deal with gender paradigms and power relations, often mixing historical and national narratives with the artist’s autobiography. In her works, Patir expands the boundaries of representation in the digital age working against the gender and racial biases that populate the field of animation, 3D simulations and Artificial Intelligence. Her film Sleepers (2017) is a contemplation of the dream-state as a site for political intervention. In 2017, it was commissioned for Danspace Projects, New York and ironically presented during President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. The film was awarded the Experimental Cinema and Video Art Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Patir’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Copperfield Gallery, London, and Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel Aviv. It has been featured in esteemed film festivals around the world including the Jerusalem Film Festival and the New Directors/New Films Festival at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center, New York. Patir is currently working on a solo exhibition at the CCA Tel Aviv following her solo presentation at OnCurating Projects space in Zurich.
