Interlude welcomes all types of visual artists-parents working in a wide range of mediums. Our residents are provided with the support to explore and expand.
Over our first three years, Interlude hosted nearly 60 resident artists for 3-4 week sessions. Our upcoming cohort of 37 artists was selected by a jury of 18 in the Spring of 2024 from a competitive pool of over 350 applicants.
Allison Reimus is an artist based in New Jersey. Her work lives somewhere between painting and fiber art. She explores her relationship with motherhood, labor, patriarchy and domesticity through tactility and abstraction. Recent exhibitions include BravinLee Programs (NY, NY), Resident Assistant (Great Barrington, MA) and Unit London, (London, UK).
Anna Schimkat works as a visual artist, entering the field of sound art with her installations and performances. She composes spaces which sharpen perception and thereby enforce the perceiver’s action. Her sound materials are self-built instruments and field recordings of her main instrument: the world surrounding us. She lives in Mainz and Leipzig, Germany.
Boryana Rusenova-Ina’s work reflects on the entanglements of place and belonging in relationship to language and nationhood. Her latest project consists of trompe l’oeil copies of early childhood scribbles and phonic instructions reminiscent of ESL learning. She is based in Schenectady, NY.
Colin Lyons’ work fuses printmaking, site-based installation, and chemical experiments. His projects explore sacrificial landscapes through the lens of geoengineering, extraction, alchemy, and ritual. Lyons has participated in recent residencies at MacDowell, The Arctic Circle, ÖRES, Frans Masereel Centrum, Rabbit Island, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, and The Grant Wood Fellowship. He is an Associate Professor at Binghamton University.
Andrea Kastner is a Canadian painter living and working in Binghamton, New York. Her work focuses on the overlooked corners of urban spaces and the sacred nature of rejected things. She has participated in residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, Governor’s Island, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, and The Haliburton School of Art.
Gabriela Bettini is a Spanish-Argentinian visual artist whose work examines how painting has historically promoted hegemonic North Atlantic ideas and shaped human views of nature. From an ecofeminist approach, she uses drawing and painting to intertwine ecology, landscape traditions, and the place/memory dichotomy, linking present issues with the origins of colonialism.
Gal Nissim is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She works with technology, organisms, and humor to challenge our preconceptions about nature. Nissim’s work has been exhibited at New Museum, Science Gallery, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Pioneer Works, and was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Young Artist Award and LMCC Grant.
Hannah Rowan is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her work explores the slippery complexities of water that draws together a liquid relationship between the human body and geological and ecological systems. She works across sculpture, performance, video and sound to explore bodies of water, transformation and impermanence.
Todd Bienvenu is Brooklyn artist working in painting and sculpture. He depicts contemporary scenes culled from his personal everyday life, recreating intimate moments and images captured on his cell phone.
Jodi Hays is a painter, building her collaged surfaces from reclaimed and dyed cardboard and textiles. She is the recipient of grants from the Rauschenberg Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Art, and Sustainable Arts Foundation. Residencies include Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, Oxbow School of Art, Stove Works, The Cooper Union School of Art, and Vermont Studio Center.
Kat Chamberlin is a sculptor, drawer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She is interested in relational materials; an invitation to touch, caress, fondle, rub, step on, or to restrain and repulse. Like parents and children, lovers and friends must negotiate their individuality while balancing dependence. Working with fragile glass as a weapon, softly flocked heavy metals, carved supple walnut, and sharp aluminum, Chamberlin's boundaries are materially delineated.
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann creates large scale paintings as well as cut paper and mosaic installations that examine mythology, identity, and landscape. She and her family are based in Washington, DC.
Laurel Roth Hope and Andy Diaz Hope are San Francisco based artists who work both collaboratively and individually. Andy’s work explores humanity’s influence on itself, while Laurel’s focuses on humanity’s impact on the environment. Their collaborative work uses visual storytelling and allegory to explore the whole enchilada.
Portada's work articulates her environment and immediate surroundings into shafts of vibrant color and light, familiar organic shapes and patterns. Boundaries between surface and forms are blurred, as painted images collide and are ruptured by collage. Lauren Portada is based in New Jersey, on the cusp of the wilderness.
Lucas Yasunaga is a sculptor and experimental musician based in Rosemont, PA. He makes time-based sculptures, synthetic organisms, musical instruments and devices to explore parasitic companionships and custodianship in the form of improvisational music, sound installations, and performances.
Manami Ishimura is a Japanese visual artist, sculptor, and educator. Her handwork strives to
depict the ephemeral beauty of moments which generally go unseen.
Mary Simpson is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her exhibitions combine her abstract paintings with her writing and activism to build community engagement. She is originally from Palmer, Alaska.
Matthew Mann is a mixed-media painter based in Washington DC. His work weaves art historical tropes, cultural ephemera, municipal signage, textile designs and architectural details together into surreal ruminations about the attention economy, commodity culture and the landscape.
Matthew Speedy is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia. His work is concerned with the remaining differences between science fiction and reality, ongoing ecological crises, and how to productively worry about the future. His labor intensive sculptural practice incorporates a diverse range of materials. He also co-runs INFORMATION, a project space in Kensington, Philadelphia.
Michelle Rosenberg is an artist and architect who works with a range of materials to make installations and sculptures that examine existing systems and re-code familiar objects. Her past projects have included embedding whistles into walls and creating secret languages out of litter. She currently makes delicate sculptures with used brooms that The New Yorker Magazine says “subverts half a dozen art-historical genres”.
Mira Burack is an interdisciplinary artist living in an earthship in the high desert mountains of New Mexico. She is engaged by the materials and beings in her daily life – plants, textiles, animals and family – and the interior and exterior spaces where meaningful life experiences take place - the bed, land, table and home
Olivia Guterson is multidisciplinary artist and mother living in Detroit whose work explores personal and collective narratives with a curiosity around brokenness, survival, and fugitivity. In May 2024, she earned a MFA in Painting at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She is a resident artist at Buffalo Prescott and McArthur Binion’s Modern Ancient Brown; an alum of Sibyls Shrine residency; a recipient of the Gilbert Fellowship and a founding member of ArtMamas Alliance.
Rainy Lehrman is a visual artist that relies on material potential to inform the relationship between the human-made and the natural world. Physical labor often becomes a performative part of her work. Lehrman is currently living and working as an artist, educator, fabricator and facilitator in Brooklyn, New York.
As a Xicanx-Latinx artist, Nava Soto uses sculptural paintings and ephemeral installations to explore themes of writing/iconography, language, and ritual. Her work threads into the continuum of Indigenous American art history within a contemporary cultural framework, drawing from Mesoamerican glyphic writing systems and popular elements like piñatas and wood-shaving alfombras, which have origins predating European influences.
Rose Marie Cromwell is a photo-based artist, whose work explores the effects of globalization on the local and the tenuous space between the political and the spiritual. Her first book "El Libro Supremo de la Suerte" was published in 2018 by TIS books, and was awarded the Light Work Photo Book Prize. She has had solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Pier 24, and The High Museum in Atlanta.
Sarah Sudhoff is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist based in Houston. Sudhoff’s practice utilizes socially engaged and participatory actions and explores the intimate themes of motherhood, illness, vulnerability, and mortality through her gendered, bodily and lived experiences. The personal, in her work, echoes a much larger political arena of current events.
Diaz’s work explores how site specificity and appropriation affect our perception of domestic materials. She recontextualizes familiar objects we rely on for physical and emotional comfort, suggesting they can merge to develop defenses against us.
Ying Zhu is a multimedia installation artist. Her works are often site responsive, utilizing mundane and ephemeral materials to create moments that resonate with life experiences. She has attended residencies at the Bemis Center, Headlands, and Vermont Studio Center.