2011 Residency Schedule

Residency #143
OCTOBER 10 - 30
Application deadline: May 20, 2011

ALEXIS ROCKMAN, visual artist

Born in New York City, Alexis Rockman (American, b. 1962) has been a key figure in the resurgence of figuration since the mid-1980’s. His often large-scale, painstakingly executed oil paintings and watercolors explore environmental issues through vivid, sometimes apocalyptic, imagery. Rockman’s art is influenced by sources as varied as natural history, botanical illustrations, museum dioramas, science fiction films, realist and abstract art traditions, and firsthand field study. Rockman often collaborates with scientists and writers, and has also spent time doing expeditions and field studies and in Madagascar, Antarctica, Guyana, Brazil and Costa Rica.

He attended Rhode Island School of Design, and has BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Rockman has taught at Columbia University, Harvard and the Anderson Ranch, and has exhibited his work in galleries and institutions worldwide. Solo gallery shows include Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen and Leo Koenig in New York. In November of 2010 a mid-career survey will open at The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washinton DC. Other numerous solo museum exhibitions include Rockman’s recent works on paper “The Weight of Air”at the Rose Museum, Brandeis University (2008), “Wonderful World” at the Camden Arts Centre, London (2004), as well as “Romantic Attachments” at the CAC Cincinnati (2007). “Manifest Destiny” a commission for the Brooklyn Museum, traveled to the Addison Museum, Wexner Center and the RISD museum in 2004-05. Group  museum exhibitions include “Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away” organized by Damien Hirst at The Serpentine Gallery in London (1994), “IntoMe/OutofMe” organized by Klaus Biesenbach at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, N.Y. (2006) and “Badlands” at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass. (2008). He will be included in the 2011 “Prospect.2 New Orleans,” organized by Dan Cameron, director of visual arts for the Contemporary Arts Center, New, His paintings are in many public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Baltimore Museum of Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Rockman lives and works in New York City.

RESIDENCY STATEMENT
The residency is open to artists who would like to work in any discipline. We will be spending time some outside doing plein aire , looking at the local ecology and natural history of the area, and taking notes, photographs and making drawings. It will be very open, and fun, flexible and relaxed (hopefully it will include fishing and snorkeling too)

This part of Florida is a very interesting part of the world and it would be fun to explore.

The seminar will include individual conversations and open critiques as well.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants should submit CD of 20 images, resume, letter of intent , DVD (if filmmaker), and link to website if you have one.

* Atlantic Center for the Arts is pleased to announce, through the generous support of the Joan Mitchell Foundation, all painters and sculptors accepted into the 2011 & Winter 2012 Master Artists-in-Residence programs who demonstrate need will be recommended to receive full financial aid to attend the residency program. Artists from other disciplines may apply to ACA's Financial Aid program.