Interview

Born in Istanbul in 1985, Refik Anadol lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA degree from the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts, as well an MFA in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University. He is a media artist and director working in the fields of live audio/visual performance and immersive art-in-architecture installations. In particular, his work explores the hybrid spaces of the digital and physical worlds, using technology to create a relationship between architecture and media art.

 An award winner in the fields of both art and technology, Anadol has served as artist-in-residence and guest lecturer around the world. His past site-specific audio/visual performances in the public space include The International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal (Canada), Arts Electronica Festival (Austria), l’Usine | Genève (Switzerland), Arc De Triomf (Spain), Zollverein | SANAA’s School of Design Building (Germany), Santralistanbul Contemporary Art Center (Turkey), Outdoor Vision Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), Istanbul Design Biennial (Turkey), and the City of Sydney (Australia).

Alice Dalton Brown was raised in Ithaca, New York, studied at L’Académie Julien, Paris; Cornell University, New York; and received a BA degree from Oberlin College, Ohio.

She has had over twenty solo exhibitions in New York City, in addition to several nationally and internationally. In 2018, February – April, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio presented a solo show of her work. An overview of her career is in the catalog, Summer Breeze, which accompanied her 2013 solo exhibition at the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Her work is in private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Allen Art Mueum, Ohio; The Johnson Museum of Art, New York; The Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio.

Alice resides in the Hudson Valley and in the Finger Lakes, New York. Recently Alice was a visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome and since then has been creating paintings and pastels derived from her stay in Rome. Her subjects have evolved in the course of her career, invariably invoking images with psychological significance and composed with a focus on light and spatial relationships.

Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense.

In recent years, Odita has been commissioned to paint several large-scale wall installations including The United States Mission to the United Nations in New York (2011), the Savannah College of Art and Design (2012), New York Presbyterian Hospital (2012), New Orleans Museum of Art (2011), Kiasma, Helsinki (2011) and the George C. Young Federal Building and Courthouse in Orlando, Florida (2013).

Odita has had several solo exhibitions in museums and institutions across the globe including Savannah College of Art and Design; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Studio Museum in Harlem; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; and Princeton University.

Odita was born in 1966 in Enugu, Nigeria and lives and works in Philadelphia. He has been the recipient of a Penny McCall Foundation Grant in 1994, a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant in 2001, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant in 2007. Also in 2007, his large installation Give Me Shelterwas featured prominently in the 52nd Venice Biennale exhibition Think With The Senses, Feel With the Mind, curated by Robert Storr.