Crosstown Arts is proud to invite the Memphis community to visit the artist studios. Artists in residence will have their studios open on Friday, December 2, from 5 to 7 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
Brittney Boyd Bullock explores the tension between searching and finding, obsession and order, and lightness and darkness through two- and three-dimensional forms. Contemplative and personal, the process-driven works interrogate anxiety and wonder using materials in a new way, forcing her to make meaning in the arbitrary jumble.
Brittney’s work is a sensory dwelling that uses repetition, color, and story in ways that trigger joy and wonder. She uses ephemera and memorabilia to reimagine possibilities, create new solutions, and ask more questions. Making new contexts for old worlds makes them new again; these new versions of what already exists are how she understands the power of play, existence, world-building, and the human experience.
R Jason Rawlings is a filmmaker and visual artist residing and working in Memphis, Tennessee. His work often revolves around the home and how our living spaces connect us to the world at large. The stories are born from a place, evolve from there, and are colored by the intricacies of the location. His most recent work, Natives, has been featured in both Indie Memphis and Oxford Film Festivals and awarded Best Director by the Mid-South Black Film Festival. He is a graduate of the University of Memphis film program.
Nelson Gutierrez is an artist exploring the constant struggle of individuals and some communities at large for a better life — resilience, hope, the search for common ground. His work is informed by personal and collective memories. It is composed of two- and three-dimensional pieces, conceptual objects and installations that reflect current socio-political issues. Different materials are juxtaposed in a way that provides symbolic relevance to the topic being explored. Diverse mediums are used to express feelings of collective longing, fear, grief and hope.
Angelo Madsen Minax is a filmmaker, visual artist, performer, and educator. His projects consider how human intimacies are woven through personal and collective histories, cultures, and kinships. His recent film, North By Current (2021), aired on season 34 of POV (PBS), was a New York Times Critics Pick, and has been called “A beautiful, complex wonder of a film,” by Rolling Stone. Madsen is currently a Guggenheim Fellow.
