The Brooklyn-based Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program final Wednesday introduced the recipients of its 2024-2025 studio program residency, in addition to the recipients of the 2024 Philip Pearlstein Painter Distinction and the 2024 Irving Sandler Prize.
The recipients of the 2024-2025 residency are: Sarah Bedford, Melissa Brown, Michael Sweet, Mark Joshua Epstein, Pap Souleye Fall, Tatiana Florival, Justin Rui Han, Ellie Krakow, Beck Lowry, Leonardo Madriz, Kristen Mills, Rachelle Mozman Solano, Anne Neely, Sagarika Sundaram, Andina Marie Osorio, Mariana Ramos Ortiz and Phyllis Yao.
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program stated these 17 artists had been chosen from a aggressive pool of 1,874 candidates by a jury composed of Ellen Altfest, Jennifer Packer, Matthew Day Jackson, Keltie Ferris and Virginia Overton.
The residency offers rent-free studio area for a interval of 1 yr, lasting from September 2024 by way of August 2025, with an open studios weekend to be scheduled for Spring 2025.
“We’re thrilled to announce the recipients of this yr’s residency program and welcome such a gifted group to our studio areas and our group,” stated Kate Gavriel, director of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. “This yr’s choice course of was extremely aggressive and we’re so appreciative of the entire gifted artists that utilized, we sit up for seeing the incredible works that this yr’s class pulls collectively.”
The Philip Pearlstein Painter distinction, named in honor of Philip Pearlstein, a member of this system’s Artist Advisory Committee and co-founder of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, was given to Justin Han.
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program stated the award identifies an impressive representational painter and ensures {that a} non-abstract painter be awarded a residency yearly in recognition of Pearlstein’s dedication to referential artwork.
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program additionally introduced Andrew Woolbright because the recipient of the 2024 Irving Sandler Prize.
Based in 2019, the $2,500 prize is awarded yearly to program alumni who share Irving’s concern for the “intentions, visions, and experiences” of artists.
Woolbright is an artist, gallerist and editor-at-large on the Brooklyn Rail, residing and dealing in Brooklyn.
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program stated Woolbright was chosen for the Irving Sandler Prize as “an impressive alumnus” of this system, “in recognition of his ongoing contribution to the New York Metropolis arts group, each in his inventive follow and beneficiant spirit, in addition to an educator, author, and curator.”
The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free, non-living studio area to 17 visible artists for year-long residencies in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
Developed for artists, by artists in 1991, its mission is to offer working studio area and group for artists.
This system was renamed in 2014 so as to honor the legacy of Marie Walsh Sharpe and replicate the dedication of the Walentas Household Basis as stewards of this system.
In July 2020, Jane Walentas, who championed and oversaw this system’s stewardship by the Walentas Household Basis, handed away.
“She was deeply devoted to this system’s mission of supporting working artists, and her legacy continues by way of the tons of of Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program alumni and all these to come back,” the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program stated.
Artists enthusiastic about making use of for subsequent yr’s residency ought to go to thestudioprogram.com.
