Artists

Unit 2: Brian Fridge , graduate student artist in residence, Dallas, Texas
            Dates of residency: 5/15/09 to 5/15/2010
            Brian Fridge is an MFA candidate in Art & Technology and video artist from Fort Worth. His artwork documenting a whirlwind of frozen particles in his freezer, “Vault Sequence” (pictured right), was shown in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.

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Unit 3: Richie Budd, artist in residence, Fort Worth, Texas
           Dates of residency: 9/15/09 to 5/15/2010
           Richie Budd has shown work internationally and was artist in residence under the curatorial leadership of Hans Ulrich Olbrist at Artpace in San Antonio. Budd channels consumer excess in sculpture and scatter projects that push the boundaries of conventional installation.  

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Unit 4: Gabriel Dawe, graduate student in residence, Mexico City, Mexico/Montreal, Canada
            Dates of residency: 5/15/09 to 5/15/2010
            Gabriel Dawe is a candidate for an MFA in Art & Technology who works in fiber. He sews images and deconstructs clothing to make “painful” objects.

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Unit 5: Alexandre Moggi-Gendreau, artist in residence, Paris, France
           Dates of residency: 8/20/09 to 9/10/09
           Alexandre Moggi-Gendreau shoots the hoary medium of drawing through the prism of conceptualism and full-blown environmental installation. He is working on an internet-based project while at Centraltrak.

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Unit 5: Renana Raz, artist in residence, Tel Aviv, Israel
           Dates of residency: 9/20/09 to 12/8/09
           Renana Raz will be both artist in residence at Centraltrak and dancer in residence at UT Dallas. An internationally known choreographer and dancer, Raz rethinks the body through experimental movement.

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Unit 6: Ruben Nieto, graduate student, Guanajuato, Mexico
            Dates of residency: 5/15/09 to 5/15/10
           Toys-R-Us meets Elsworth Kelly in these paintings. Brightly colored Legos skate across cake-like surfaces in primary colors that are thick with enamel.  For Nieto the toys register the rhythm and scattershot layout of urban sprawl. Nieto is a graduate student in Arts & Technology.

Ruben Neito, Untitled

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Unit 7: James Gilbert, artist in residence, Los Angeles, California
           Dates of residency: 6/1/09 to 1/8/2010
           James Gilbert focuses on the disappearance of “privacy” in a world of 24-7 connection and news coverage. His work represents the paradoxical loss of specific identity through the cultivation of manifold identities. He sews translucent industrial grade panties and makes anonymous, faceless portraiture.

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Unit 8: Cassandra Emswiler, graduate student artist in residence, Dallas, Texas
            Dates of Residency: 8/21/09 to 5/15/2010
            Cassandra Emswiler’s work fingers the fault line between architectural representation and actual architecture. Emswiler is fascinated by old forts and medieval European defense architecture.

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Unit 9: Lauren Woods, artist in residence, San Francisco, California
            Dates of residency: 9/15/09-5/15/2010
            Lauren Woods returns to Dallas from San Francisco after having worked on a public interactive multi-media installation, “Fountains,” in Dallas. “Fountains” was based on the traces of a phrase -- “Whites Only” -- that became faintly apparent in the Dallas County Records Building on a wall above a public water fountain.

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