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Each year 3rd Ward selects four artists from around the country for a Solo Show, residency at 3rd Ward, cash grant and NYC wide exposure.
Mu Pan's vibrant work is a masterpiece of storytelling, refracted through the artist's Taiwanese upbringing, his American schooling, and the world of his fertile imagination. His epic myth-meets-reality paintings captivated our judges with their beauty, detail, humor and intelligence. As Pan says, "To me, there is no true story or fiction...This is going to be the story of myself."
Graphic, gritty, with a lingering beauty that digs under your skin. Our 3rd Ward Open Call judges were awestruck by the socially-engaged work of Maurice Mbikayi, whose mixed media works combine history, technology and identity with a rare intelligence and wit.
Based in Cape Town, Mbikaya draws his inspiration from provocative socio-political boundaries. The result is an eclectic body of work consisting of paper, large-scale installations and site-specific performances. His work has been critically acclaimed by the art community in South Africa, and now Mbiyaki will bring his exhilarating vision to 3rd Ward.
Dagmara Genda spent her 3-month residency creating a new body of work to present in The Gallery at 3rd Ward.
Her Show, Building Disaster features a large-scale, site-specific installation made of intricate hand-cut glossy vinyl that takes over an entire hallway in 3rd Ward. Other works are achieved through repeatedly layering rounds of wallpaper-like painting and drawing. Both painstaking methodologies confuse spatial relationships and create a visual tension with texture and a weighty world turned upside-down. By juxtaposing poverty and opulence, destruction and elegance, Genda has created a cacophonous riot that thrills.
Our eighth Solo Show Artist Duo, Carrie Shaltz + Zach Hyman met last fall and became fast friends through their love of photography and adventure. In December, the two embarked on an 1100 mile road trip that began in San Francisco, included Bakersfield, Mojave, Death Valley, Las Vegas, and concluded in Los Angeles. Equipped with 2 digital cameras, the two photographers turned the lenses on each other to create dreamlike images representing the agony and ecstasy of a forbidden love affair set in the barren and abandoned landscapes of Western America. The entire project was strictly spontaneous - no location scouting, no assistants, no crew, and most importantly... no rules.
3rd Ward sent them on a road trip where they created PREYGROUND: a lush exploration of our natural, “wild” selves in a society that suppresses that exact behavior. Nude, masked, and with zero inhibitions, Carrie and Zach explore natural and man-made landscapes in striking, stylish tableaus that juxtapose animal physicality with the everyday.
Our seventh Solo Show Artist, Justin Colt Beckman is a city boy with a country boy's heart. He uses photo-based works, film/video, sculpture, installation, and new-media to engage in rural activities vicariously through his art-making. His work explores and presents ideas surrounding the urban/rural dichotomy and its many associated stereotypes, while simultaneously questioning the relevance of these terms amidst the ever-increasing strength of the technological revolution and the rise of globalization.
After completing his residency at 3rd Ward, we will present Mr. Beckman’s work in the gallery at our Morgan Avenue location. Please stay tuned for the date and time.
A very special thanks to our incredible judges and the many talented artists who participated in this open call!
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