STUDIO PROGRAM EXHIBITIONS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THE PRINTSHOP IS APPOINTMENT ONLY. MASKS ARE ENCOURAGED.
Exhibitions
Image: Katharine L. DeLamater, Flight Risk XI, 2022, Linen pulp paint on linen rag.
Tacit Knowledge:
Paper as Practice in the Dieu Donné West Bay View Foundation Fellowship Program
in partnership with Dieu Donné
January 23–March 7, 2025
Opening Reception: January 23, 2025, 6-8 PM
Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm
Artists
Anna Henrick Karpatkin Benjamin
Katharine L. DeLamater
Candy Alexandra González
Jaz Graf
Lauren Krukowski
SR Lejeune
Anela Ming-Yue Oh
Curated by Eliana Blechman
Contemporary papermaking draws on generations of knowledge about fibers, waters, and motions of the body. There is ritual in the processes of preparing pulp, pulling sheets, and pressing and drying paper between or upon boards. The practice of papermaking is learned as much through an inherent, tacit understanding within the body as it is through overt instruction. Working with pulp is a tactile exercise – one through which artists imbue meaning and history into their materials and art.
Tacit Knowledge celebrates seven years of Dieu Donné’s West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, an immersive studio mentorship for emerging papermakers to expand and enrich their artistic practices at Dieu Donné’s papermaking studios in Brooklyn, NY. Artists and papermakers Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin, Katharine L. DeLamater, Candy Alexandra González, Jaz Graf, Lauren Krukowski, SR Lejeune, and Anela Ming-Yue Oh each spent six months in the Dieu Donné papermaking studios, fully immersing themselves in the art of papermaking, supporting artists and projects coming through the studio, and learning to hone their techniques and develop their own practices. Their fellowships culminated in dedicated professional studio days for each artist to each create new bodies of artwork in handmade paper. Their resulting artworks pull from personal, social, and historical experience, and explore ritual, identity, heritage, and environment, mining both inherited and privatized forms of knowledge.
For all press inquiries, please contact Emma Hill at ehill@dieudonne.org.
RESIDENCIEs
Image copyright: Alix Marie
Paul Heintz
Supported by the French Institut
EFA Studios Program Artist-in-Residence
Paul Heintz works in film, sound and installation. He develops his work in a mode somewhere between documentary and fiction, where realism is often challenged by the characters and actors themselves. Without imposing interpretation, he weaves stories into a very open narrative around societal issues. The relationship with authority and submission to power are often recurrent themes in his exploration, conducted with a certain detachment and poetic manner.
Heintz’ has been presented at contemporary art events and film festivals including FID Marseille, IFFR Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, Paris Nuit Blanche and in art centers and museums such as the Centre Pompidou, FRAC Lorraine, FRAC Grand Large and Les Rotondes. He is the winner of the Emerige Revelation 2019, Revelation Livre d'Artiste 2021 and 1% Marché de l'Art 2023 awards.
Born in Saint-Avold in 1989, Paul Heintz is a graduate of Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Le Fresnoy Studio National des arts Contemporains. He lives and works between Paris and the Lorraine region.
Tal Engelstein, Spring, 2021, Hayarkon 19 (Tel Aviv), Installation, Photo: Lena Gumon.
Tal Engelstein
In Partnership with Artis
EFA Studios Program Artist-in-Residence
We are pleased to welcome Tal Engelstein to EFA Studios for a residency in partnership with Artis. Tal Engelstein (Born – Israel, 1989) is a performance and installation artist who works in Tel Aviv (Israel), Graduated Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA, 2018), Received BFA at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Israel, 2015), and Participated as an Exchange Student at SAIC (USA, 2014).
Engelstein presented a solo show at Petite Gallery (2019, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris France) Artist Unlimited (2019, Bielefeld Germany), a special commission installation at Fresh Paint (2017, Tel Aviv Israel), a Solo Show at Gabirol Gallery (2016, Tel Aviv Israel). He won Young Artist Prize (2018), French Embassy Scholarship, Maccabe Dream Project (2017), Rabinovich Foundation (2016) and America-Israel Prize (2015), and Participated as a resident in Artist Unlimited (Germany, 2019) and de Cite de Paris (2019, France).
THE ELIZABETH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS OPERATES TWO MAJOR PROGRAMS
