
There she continued to fine tune her sculpture and photography skills to create uncanny images of small scale architectural models. In 2016 she received her MFA, from New York University. Robin Crookall came from Washington State to New York to pursue her Masters in Fine Arts. Penumbra Foundation would like to earnestly thank all of the artists who applied this year, and we hope that those whose work was not selected at this time will continue to apply to the Workspace Program in the future. In addition to selecting two US based workspace residents – and in lieu of selecting any internationally based artists this year – the Jury has instead suggested, with Penumbra Foundation's agreement, to select two additional NYC based artists for this year's program. Our selections reflect a careful evaluation of artistic ambition, clarity of statements and future plans, the developed sensitivity to the handling of materials (beyond technical skill alone), conceptual resonance, cultural significance, critical standpoint, artistic experimentation, and a willingness and ability to go beyond the boundaries of traditional process. In speaking to the selection process, the jurors had this to say: The 2020 jury included Monique Deschaines (Director of Euqinom Gallery, CA), Odette England (Artist and Educator, RI) and Arthur Ou (Artist and Educator, NY). Alyssa is the recipient of the 2017 Massachusetts College of Art and Design Graduate Teaching Fellowship and is currently a Lecturer of Photography in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College (Boston, MA). In addition, her work has been featured in Harper's Magazine, Art New England and Phases Magazine. Alyssa has exhibited her work at numerous galleries and museums, including the Datz Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea), Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, Arizona), Pingyao International Photography Festival (Shanxi, China), Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle, Washington) and Boston University Art Galleries (Boston, Massachusetts). NOTES is held in the collections of The New York Public Library, International Center for Photography Library, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Research Library, Stanford University Library, California College of the Arts Library and Massachusetts College of Art and Design Morton R. In September 2019, Alyssa released NOTES, a handmade photo book published by Datz Press (Seoul, South Korea). They founded the art publication imprint Wilt Press in the spring of 2015, released their first trade edition monograph with Void Photo in 2019 with their collaborator Paul Guilmoth and currently works as a farmer.Īlyssa Minahan utilizes photographic materials, including unfixed gelatin silver paper and large format negatives, in non-traditional ways to express ideas integral to the medium of photography, specifically its complex relationship to time, space and memory. They are a 2019 recipient of a Nancy Graves fellowship for visual artists, runner-up for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, nominated for Prix Pictet 2021, a recipient of the Ellis-Beauregard grant and residency, and the winner of Burn Magazine’s Emerging Photographer’s Fund. Their work has been showcased nationally and internationally by the Aperture Foundation, British Journal of Photography, Photo District News, PHMuseum, Vice, Gomma, World Press Photo, LensCulture, Vogue, and the permanent collection at MoMA’s library. Hausthor received their BFA from Maine College of Art and is a current MFA candidate at Yale University. They subscribe to emotional cohesiveness in their work and rely on vignettes, tangents, and tropes of conceptual art in their storytelling. Interested in small-town gossip and the fragility of journalistic truth, they look for stories that are found at the end of dirt roads and in the tops of fir trees. Their work is an act of hybridity–an effort to render field recordings into myth. Dylan Hausthor is an artist based in New England.
