CHM Sculpture Park 2016-2017 fellows:
Lorenzo Cardim is a Brazilian visual artist and dancer based in Washington, D.C. Cardim received a BFA in Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2014 and his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2016 while concurrently studying movement and dance with Anna Halprin. Cardim currently works as the Fabrication Lab Coordinator at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and is a member of Red Dirt Studio in Mount Rainier, MD. At the core of his multi-media practice is an ongoing commitment to making work that questions social and political structures. His practice is informed by research into art history, gender politics, racial politics, and philosophy. His sculptures and performances use philosophical theory as a guide for teasing the absurd out of our understanding of the human condition. The body becomes a unifying and transforming force in the work and is questioned as an object or material. His work has been featured nationally and internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals in San Francisco, Oakland, Washington, DC, New York, and Milan, Italy. www.lorenzocardim.com
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Hoesy Corona (b. Mexico 1986, based in USA) is a multidisciplinary artist and the founding co-director of Labbodies, a performance art laboratory in Baltimore Maryland. Corona’s unapologetically colorful, sculptural and performance based works have appeared at The Baltimore Museum of Art, VisArts, Washington Project for the Arts, Kern Gallery, Haggerty Museum, and The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival among others. He is the recipient of a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Ruby’s Artist Grants in Visual Arts 2016, a Winter 2016 Light City Artist in Residence in Baltimore’s Station North, and a Spring 2016 Cafe Con Leche Latino Artist Resident in Pittsburgh, PA. Corona is the recipient of a MSAC Individual Artist Award, a Force:Upsetting Rape Culture Pelham Printmaking Residency and was included in Creative Capital’s “On Our Radar 2016”. www.hoesycorona.com
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Dave Eassa is a painter and activist living and working in Baltimore. He received his BFA in Painting with a concentration in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2013. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include “The Road to Rio” at Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA.) and “WIDE EYED” with Nicole Dyer at Savery Gallery (Philadelphia, PA.) He has shown nationally and internationally in exhibitions most notably at Signal (Brooklyn, NY), LVL3 (Chicago, IL), SessionSpace (Oakland, CA.), Sophiajacob (Baltimore, MD.), Artisphere (Roslyn, VA.), Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York, NY.), artSTRAND (Provincetown, MA), Reh Kunst (Berlin, Germany), Current Space (Baltimore, MD.), and Casa das Artes Criação Ambiente Utopias (Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe). His work has been published in Alt Esc., New American Paintings No. 112, Studio Visit Magazine Volume 25, and The Pinch Journal. In 2014 he was awarded an Individual Artist Grant in Sculpture from the Maryland State Arts Council and is currently a Baltimore Community Fellow with the Open Society Institute through 2017. Eassa is the founder and director of Free Space, an artist run organization, which brings arts classes to incarcerated individuals within the Maryland prison system. Free Space has received support from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Gutierrez Memorial Foundation, the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, and the Contemporary. www.daveeassa.com
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Alice Gadzinski (1987 - 2018) Born in Pennsylvania, Alice lived in Northern Michigan for most of her life. Throughout her youth, Alice was a dancer and dance instructor and she attributed this experience to her performance-influenced aesthetic. Alice spent her formative years in Michigan, attending Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids Michigan from 2005- 2010. From 2010 – 2014 Alice was employed in several fields working as an Americorps VISTA, a K-12 substitute teacher, an adjunct professor and a prop and backdrop designer for a photography studio. Alice attended the Rhinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art from 2014 - 2016 receiving her MFA in 2016. Alice was an Artist in Residence at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore from 2016-2018 where a solo exhibition of her work will take place in late 2018. Throughout her career, Alice participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally showing works in a diverse range of media such as found-object assemblage, mixed-media sculpture, shimmering text-based wall pieces, painting, drawing, and collage, in addition to graphic design, product design and puppetry design working with Charm City Puppets. Alice’s work investigated "camp" iconographies and themes such as artificiality, façade and escapism unveiling the construct of gender identity in the pursuit of female empowerment through the dissection of increasingly outmoded forms of social performance and expectation. The CHM Sculpture Park and Fellowship Program is honored to have had the opportunity to work with Alice and to present her celebrated art piece “Recess”. More information available on the artist’s website www.alicegadzinski.com
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Born 1987 and raised in Baltimore, Rachael London studied Urban Studies and Design in New York at The New School before returning to Baltimore to study at MICA. Currently, London is a Baltimore Corps fellow and a freelancer in radio and film; the work done in these positions works as fodder for her studio practice. Her interests are vast, currently circling around storytelling through new media and designing healing objects/furniture for public spaces. Seeing art as an asset to public health and culture - she views inclusivity and observational research as resources that are vital to any public project. Currently based in Baltimore, her artistic practice has led her to a variety of locations in the US and abroad – London takes advantage of these opportunities to connect to her location by creating site specific work in public spaces. Some of her work includes a Wave Bench (2014) a concrete bench installed at Penn Station in Baltimore as well as ongoing project Greater Sights and Sounds at Lexington Market. As an artist activist member of the art collective FORCE's group Gather Together, she was recently able to lead talks at the Creative Time Summit in DC around survivor led arts advocacy. www.rachaellondon.com
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Malcolm Peacock is an artist living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016. His works are dedicated to sharing the emotions, thoughts, and feelings that are born out particular lived experiences held by different Black individuals. Drawing, sculpture, video, writing, and performance, are all forms that can be found in his practice. Personal narratives, historical events, urgency, and site specificity are combined in attempts to transcend known spaces and traditionally accepted ideas about Black individuals into creations and foundations for the complexity and potentiality of Black experiences in our present and future. Race, gender, sexuality, and the tensions that occur when they brush against each other, are important in the process of recognizing a wide range of emotional experiences. Malcolm's work has been shown in Richmond, Virginia, Baltimore, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon. He is a recipient of the 2016 Gerald Donato scholarship and one of six recipients of the 2015 Anderson Gallery student exhibition awards. www.malcolmpeacock.vcusculpture.info
Samantha Sethi is a multi-media artist working primarily in painting, installation, sculpture, and video. Sethi received her MFA in May 2016 from American University where she explored concepts of ephemerality, entropy, human impact on the environment, mapping, and our experience of time. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC where she lived and worked until moving to Washington DC in 2013. She is currently teaching art as an adjunct at AU and will teach at George Washington University in the spring. Sethi has shown in NYC, DC, and Berlin. Her work has appeared in several publications including The Washington Post, Time Out New York, and Studio Visit Magazine. Sethi was awarded a Mellon grant in 2015 as well as the Elizabeth Van Swinderen Award in 2016. Samantha was most recently offered an artist’s grant to attend Vermont Studio Center in the Spring and a residency at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA. www.samanthasethi.com
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Leanna Wetmore is an artist, environmental activist, and community organizer. She received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2001, and is a long-time resident of the Coldstream Homestead Montebello neighborhood in Baltimore city. Raised in a bucolic town in upstate New York, her passion for nature and the environment forms the basis of her personal and professional work. Wetmore considers the process of her art, and the people and places she impacts, to be as important as the final product. Public participation in her work – and allowing participants to leave their mark - is a powerful organizing tool. Wetmore’s current work aims to reflect back what she learns through dialog with her community, aspiring to play a role in solving larger social problems. Her art has been shown at Gallery 405, Red Emma’s, Mina’s Art Gallery, and can be found scattered across East Baltimore as over a hundred community art and collaborative mural projects.