Submitted by ARTS Southeast
Nov. 14, 2024 – ARTS Southeast is pleased to announce our first ON::View Artists-in-Residence of 2025: Jon Roberts, Li Hui Huang, Sierra\ King, Ainaz Alipour, and Jana Marie Cariddi. Hailing from all over the globe, these artists bring with them diverse, ambitious projects that will engage the Savannah community.
January: Jon Roberts (Burlington, VT) graduated from Bates College with a double major in Physics and Studio Art. Roberts has worked throughout Africa, Asia, Central America, and Europe. He co-founded Burlington’s first South End Art Hop, one of Vermont’s largest art events. During his Residency, Roberts will install sculptures around the city and in nearby natural locations, photographing these placements to display in the studio. His project will include both the sculptures and their images in situ, offering a layered experience of the works’ evolution in relation to their environmental contexts.
February: Li Hui Huang (Smyrna, GA) was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan and recently moved to Smyrna, GA. She received her MFA in Performance from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Li Hui Huang’s work in performance, video, and installation illustrates the complexity of various relationships and boundaries among people. Li Hui has attended Residencies at Treasure Hill Artist Village (Taipei) and Apartment of Art (Munich). Along with solo exhibitions, her works have been shown in several group exhibitions in Taiwan (including 2016 Taipei Biennial), US, Germany and Mexico. During her Residency, Li Hui will continue work on 910 HIGHVIEW, the final work in her family soap opera series. It focuses on how historical/national narrations are formed and passed through family from the post-cold-world period through the present.
March: Sierra King (Atlanta, GA) (b.1992) is a Southern Black woman whose words fall out of her mouth like molasses. An artist, archivist, and curator, she is interested in embodiment, memory work, non-linear timelines, southern colloquiums, musicianship and dark matter. King holds a BA in Art from Valdosta State University and is currently a Social Justice For Archivists Scholar at The University of Alabama in the Masters of Library Science and Information Program. She serves as the founder and principal archivist of Build Your Archive, a nomadic memory work lab for Black Women Artists, Cultural Workers Organizers and their communities. King’s interdisciplinary practice presents photographic and archival installations in site specific spaces that honor the land — how it’s being kept and preserved. While in Residence, King will utilize her own archival materials, journaling and personal practice to create a speculative narrative of herself – one that honors the present but also takes into account what her future self may look like.
April: Ainaz Alipour (Tampa, FL) (b. 1989, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the interplay between digital and tangible forms, emphasizing cultural representation in art and its potential to challenge power structures. Drawing from Iranian cultural imagery, she creates digital installations that integrate soft sculptures, utilizing local sewing crafts and embroidery from northern Khorasan. Alipour’s work focuses on the dynamics and politics of bodies, engaging viewers through virtual reality and video installations that encourage physical interaction and challenge colonial representations. For her Residency, Alipour will develop a multimedia project exploring historical Iranian caravanserais, focusing on those constructed under the authority of female rulers. The project emphasizes the dichotomy between the andaruni (private spaces) and biruni (public spaces), reflecting how women’s contributions were often secluded or hidden.
May: Jana Marie Cariddi (Tallahassee, FL) Originally from New Jersey and working in painting and ceramic sculpture, Jana Marie Cariddi creates internal landscapes that function as reflections of emotion, memory, sexuality and tension within the body. Her work has been exhibited internationally and throughout North America, and she has participated in Residencies in Germany and Japan. Cariddi received her MFA from the University of Madison-Wisconsin, and her BFA in Painting at SCAD. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Painting & Drawing at Florida State University. While in Residence, Cariddi will develop pieces for her exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, which will feature sculptural paintings and a wall-sized installation of drawings that raise questions about our internal state in relation to our body and our surroundings.
The ON::View Residency is made possible with investment by the City of Savannah. This program is sponsored in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts. Special thanks to our local Residency Sponsors: Starlandia Supply, SCAD Museum of Art, Telfair Museums, Green Truck Pub and Starland Yard.