Edra Soto, Relocating Techniques, 2016, Installation
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Chicago - The Efroymson Family Fund, a donor-advised fund of the CICF, announced
the recipients of the 2016 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship. In the past
10 years, the Efroymson Family Fund has awarded 50 fellowships totaling more
than $1,000,000 to contemporary artists in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
Minnesota, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.
The 2016 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship recipients listed below
were awarded $25,000 a piece to help them continue their artistic development:
Blane De St Croix, Bloomington, IN; Installation
Scott Hocking, Detroit, MI; Installation
Julie Schenkelberg, Grand Rapids, MI; Installation
Edra Soto, Chicago, IL; Installation
Amanda Williams, Chicago, IL; Installation
The Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship was created in 2004 to foster
creativity and to encourage contemporary artists at all stages of their
careers. This unrestricted award supports the personal and professional
development of the recipients and can be used for living expenses, equipment
and supplies, studio rental, travel essential to artistic research, to develop
new bodies of work, or to complete works in progress.
Fellows are selected based on the quality, skill, creativity and
uniqueness of their work; their commitment to developing their work; and the
impact the award will have on their careers.
This year’s Fellows were chosen by a five-member selection committee
through a blind selection process. The selection committee included:
Jeremy Efroymson, vice chair of the Efroymson Family Fund
Justine Ludwig, director of exhibitions/senior curator, Dallas
Contemporary
Dan Cameron, contemporary art curator, California and New York
Nicole J. Caruth, director of pedagogy and public practice, The Union
for Contemporary Art
Elisa Wouk Almino, associate editor, Hyperallergic
Edra Soto,
Chicago, IL; Installation
www.edrasoto.com
Edra seeks to provide engaging spaces that erase
boundaries between the audience, the artist, and the work of art. In pursuing
this goal she has created immersive site-specific work comprised of both
traditional and unusual art objects to facilitate public engagement. Her
primary interest with this fellowship is to create a more substantial and
ambitious body of work extending from her existing series titled GRAFT. GRAFT
alludes to the decorative iron rejas popular throughout Puerto Rico in which
these iron screens became ubiquitous in the architecture of post-war Puerto
Rico due to the security they provided and their ability to allow for cross
ventilation. Today, theses iron fences are not only viewed as a protection
device as much as a language that pertains to the island’s visual culture. This
body of work alludes to the aesthetic, decorative and nostalgic qualities of
these iron fences. Fellowship support will be used for equipment and
fabrication of new works, studio rental, travel to Puerto Rico for artistic
research and living expenses.
Edra Soto, Relocating Techniques, 2016, Installation
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