Plum Lime Residency Program
Past Residents & Finalists
Guest Juror: Hannah Root, Director at Pace Gallery (NYC)
Resident: Julia Blume
Julia Blume is a New York based sculptor, painter, and writer. She received her MFA from SFAI in 2018, after earning her BA and MA in linguistics from Columbia University and UC San Diego. In 2023, she opened her solo show, The Walled Garden, at The Front (NYC), and her two person show, as long as you want at My Pet Ram (NYC). Recent group shows include Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Mizuma & Kips, RSOAA, Field Projects, Paradice Palase, and Established Gallery. She has participated in residencies with Signal Fire, ChaNorth, and ArtsIceland, and she was a fellow in Tania Bruguera’s Escuela de Arte Útil. She was a finalist for the Hopper Prize, and her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, Create! Magazine, Youngspace, Bat City Review, Friend of the Artist, and more.
Spring 2024 Finalists
Lauren Krasnoff
Lorenzo Baker
Guest Juror: Paddy Johnson, Founder of VVrkshop
Resident: Kevin Dudley
Kevin Dudley (b. 1991, Woodbridge, VA), is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He received his B.A. in Fine Art from the Tyler School of Art, and his M.F.A from Pratt Institute in 2015. He has been included at shows at NADA Miami in 2022 with Project Art Distribution, Good Naked, Paradice Palase, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Ortega y Gasset Projects, and Ed. Varie. In 2015, he was awarded the Stutzman Foundation Grant for sculptors. He most recently was a resident with Acrylicize x P.A.D.'s Artist-in-Residence program.
Winter 2024 Finalists
Hannah Knight Leighton
Grace Lynne Haynes
Guest Juror: Jared Linge of High Noon Gallery
Resident: Jesse Moy
Jesse Moy is a painter from New Jersey living in Yonkers, New York.
Resident: Judy Giera
Judy Giera (she/her) is a Brooklyn based artist whose work elevates transgender joy while examining the transmisogyny and psychological stakes that define surviving as a transgender woman in America today.
Summer 2023 Finalists
Alexis Rivierre Carter
Ticko Liu
Guest Juror: MEPAINTSME
Resident: Casey Baden
I'm an interdisciplinary artist working primarily between painting, textiles, and installation. Materially experimental, but conceptual at the core, most recently I've been focused on the relationship between the grid (as rigid, static system and underlying structure) and the body (as unique, organic, and specific to the individual). My practice aims to blur these notions as the grid is ripe for variation and rupture and the body, while distinctive, contains much uniformity.
I was born and raised in Houston, TX. I completed my BFA at New York University, my MFA at California Institute of the Arts, and am currently based in Los Angeles, CA.
Winter 2023 Finalists
Loren Erdich
Keith Allyn Spencer
Guest Jurors: Sara Maria Salamone and Tyler Lafreniere of Mrs. Gallery
Resident:
I carefully craft hard edge paintings using gouache and flashe. I start with a drawing of a landscape or an interdimensional space. The work comes alive when I begin to add color. The visual effects of color and the feelings color can communicate astound me and drive my practice.Rather than using traditional blending methods, I depict light through gradients of flat color. Each shade of the spectrum is a stripe or a layer in a concentric shape. On a technical level, this design technique unifies the painting with a cohesive treatment of the surface similar to Seurat’s dots. Psychologically, it meets my need for structure in a chaotic world. I utilize atmospheric perspective - lightening the colors of the receding shapes while darkening the forms in the front. The sense of light and depth is exaggerated by varying the line weight within the gradients. The objects in the foreground, such as flower forms, highlighted and haloed with neon oranges or yellows and placed in front of a muted background, magically protrude and glow. The stems of the flowers look more like neon lights than natural stalks (peduncles) because the gradient is so tight and stark that the colors synthesize into an optical illusion.Each stripe of each gradient has at least four coats of paint to achieve texture, opaqueness, and a velvety, matte finish. The caked-on application and the layering patterns create an overall sculptural quality that is too subtle to be received from documentation. In person, the thickness of the material combined with the way the information is organized makes the work feel like yarn, similar to an Alfred Jensen painting or a DIY pot holder. My system weaves influential threads of crafts, folk art, Bauhaus design, early modernism, op art, and transcendental painting of the American Southwest.
Resident:
I make oil paintings that stem from a fleeting emotion, impression, or observation of my physical and cultural surroundings. The subject matter is derived from a collection of seemingly mundane, everyday source images taken from print and internet media. I am drawn to these images for various reasons; some I find unintentionally humorous or profound, others are suggestive of a compelling narrative. All are quintessentially American.
The resulting works are intimate studies of people and scenarios that would normally be seen as unremarkable. When taken out of context and brought into high focus the result is an often unsettling combination of the familiar and the absurd. In all of my work I seek to convey a sense of unconventional nostalgia, the experience of a strong emotion or memory coming from an unlikely source.
My paintings are meant to be viewed both as individual works and as parts of a whole when shown together. Each painting contains within it a quiet, intuitive language, a language whose meaning shifts when viewed alongside other paintings. Through placing my work in varying combinations, multiple narratives emerge, and the viewer is left to put the pieces together. My paintings are meant to engulf emotion, strike a nerve and get an emotional response. My use of paint texture and color heightens the senses of beauty, sexuality, fear and loneliness.
Summer 2022 Finalists
Guest Juror: Brigitte Mulholland, Director of Anton Kern Gallery
Resident: Raymond Hwang
My work often draws from the estranged relationships we have with the paradoxical parts of ourselves. As a second generation Asian American, my life has often consisted of decisions and thoughts that contradict each other. Learning one culture while adapting to another, and living in that flux, is something that has become second nature. Throughout my paintings, forms are rendered with differing levels of information and atmospheric energy that challenge the idea of what is concrete. The elements in my paintings feel like actors in a play, responding to a director, an unreliable narrator, who loathes the idea of a rehearsal. The paintings, with very little or no preparatory work, come into existence one move at a time. In the end, we’re left with the record of something that may not reflect factual history, but maybe more importantly a genuine emotional history.
2022 Finalists
Heather Drayzen
Mira Putnam
Julia Blume
Enzo Iwase
Guest Juror: Lauren Marinaro, Owner of Marinaro Gallery
Resident: Jahi Sabater
Jahi Sabater is a Fellowship MFA graduate of the Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts program, and the BFA program at Parsons, New School of Design. A Bronx native, he now works in Brooklyn New York making his studio-based photographic works. He has taught photography at Rutgers University, Columbia University, Parsons University and Middlesex County College. He was awarded the NYFA Fellowship for photography, Brovero Photography Prize, and was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Resident: Woomin Kim
Woomin Kim is a South Korean artist currently based in the USA. Kim makes sculpture and installation to reveal the gap between how she knows objects linguistically or conceptually and what they really are, between a subjective understanding of the individual and the unknown truth of the materials.
Kim’s works have been shown in the USA and South Korea, including solo shows at Boston Sculptors Gallery (Boston, MA) and Maud Morgan Arts Center (Cambridge, MA). She has participated in several residency programs including, The Studio at MASS MoCA, Ox-bow School of Art and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Kim has received fellowships and awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Cambridge Art Association and Korean Cultural Center among others. She is a current fellow at the Queens Museum Studio Program (2018-2020) and looking at a solo exhibition in the next year (2020) at the Boston Children’s Museum.
Kim holds a B.F.A from Seoul National University and received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2021 Finalists
