Salina Art Center

Future Artists in Residence

Dawit L. Petros, Compendium III (A
Catalogue of Dakar Colors), 2011, digital
prints, 4’ x 6’ each, Courtesy of the Artist

Dawit L. Petros
March 20–May 14, 2012

New York-based artist Dawit L. Petros investigates boundaries in artistic, geographical, and cultural contexts. Petros’s mixed media installations use the formal language of minimalist abstraction to reveal autobiographical narratives.  The arrangements within the installations often deny any stable, singular viewpoint, allowing viewers to become wanderers, and mirror the artist’s travel and research. For his residency at the Salina Art Center, Petros will embark on a series of migratory walks, crisscrossing Salina and its surrounding environs.  A modern flaneur, Petros willexplore the city and make photographs of colors, surfaces, buildings, objects,fields, waterways, etc. to be included in the long-term site-responsive project, Chrome. 

Petros has exhibited his work in group exhibitions throughout Canada and the United States, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI; Wedge Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto; Observatoire 4, Montréal, Canada; Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montréal; and Prefix Gallery, Toronto. He has received Fulbright and Bombardier Internationalist Fellowships, as well as an Art Matters Foundation grant; and has participated in residencies at the Center for Photography, Woodstock and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

For more information on the artist, please visit: http://www.alexandergray.com/artists/dawit-l-petros/

Molly Dilworth, Cool Water, Hot Island, 2010,
Ride-a-Way on street surface, 5 blocks/50, 000 sq.
ft., Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets,
Times Square, NYC

Molly Dilworth
May 14–June 28, 2012

New York-based artist Molly Dilworth builds her projects from the ground up, literally and metaphorically. In the summer of 2010, Dilworth installed Cool Water, Hot Island, a 5-block, 50,000 square foot public artwork in the center of Times Square in New York City, which referenced the historical geography of midtown, in particular the Great Kill stream that once flowed near the city’s center. For her residency, Dilworth has proposed to make a series of public painting interventions based on the geography and history of Salina.  The paintings would exist as a hybrid design inspired by the decorative and symbolic traditions of Salina:past and present.  These works will be installed on horizontal surfaces to be visible to satellite engines such as Google Earth, marking the territory of Salina with its visual history.

Dilworth has exhibited internationally andthroughout the United States, including BM-Suma Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey; Ueno Park, Yanaka, Nezu and Sendagi, Tokyo, Japan; Sculpture Center, Queens, New York; New Museum, New York; PNCA, Portland, OR; and Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA; Her work has been featured in Artforum, The Village Voice, Flavorwire, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times.

Please visit www.mollydilworth.com for more information on the artist.

MK Guth, I Still Feel the Same, synthetic hair and
fabric, 150’ braids

MK Guth
June 19-July 28, 2012

Portland, Oregon-based artist, MK Guth is a multidisciplinary artist working in a variety of mediums, including video, photography, sculpture, and performance. In conjunction with an exhibition opening in October 2012, Guth will be utilizing The Warehouse as an interactive research laboratory on food and culture.  During her residency, Guth will invite the community to share their favorite recipes and stories of their most memorable meals and host impromptu food discussions and dinners.  The resulting shared dinner experiences will initiate a social space where new narratives on our relationship with food and its connection to memory, social behaviors, and place can further be developed.  Giving us some food for thought, the project brings forth questions on collective experience and the intimacies we have to food and its role in our understanding of self.

Guth has exhibited with numerous galleries and institutions, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Boise Art Museum, ID; The Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australia; Nott dance Festival, England; Swiss Institute, New York; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; Betty Moody, Houston, TX; White Columns, New York; Artists Space, New York; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and the Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA. She has received a Betty Bowen Special Recognition Award administered through SeattleArt Museum and an Award of Merit from the Bellevue Art Museum. Guth received a project commission from the Portland Institute for the Arts (PICA) in March of 2000 and a project commission from the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2005.  Her work has been discussed in numerous periodicals, including ART NEWS, Flash Art, New Art Examiner, and Art in America.

For more information on the artist, visit www.mkguth.com.

CHERYL, CHERYLYMPIX, 2010, video still

CHERYL
September 2012

CHERYL is a four-member, semi-anonymous, often cat-masked artist collective based in Brooklyn, New York known for their bizarre video art, outrageous costumes, participatory performances, museum installations, and epic happenings. CHERYL’s video and performance work has been featured in various installations and events with the Museum of Modern Art, New York; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NewYork; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Rubin Museum, New York; the Bruce High Quality Foundation and Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, New York. 

In Salina, CHERYL will focus on the creation of anew video and engage the local community through various public programs staged during their residency. The spirit of CHERYL embraces spontaneity and improvisation, so the collective welcomes the opportunity to inhabit new spaces, meet new people, and create together on-the-spot.  Be warned, CHERYL has been known for hosting the dance party that will ruin your life, a celebratory public thematic performance that encourages interactive participation through the activation of cat masks, shoulder pads, and fake blood.

For more information on CHERYL, visit www.cherylwillruinyourlife.info.