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the Fellows implemented a new program, FOCAFellowships, in 2006. Commensurate with our mission to support California artists, direct unrestricted grants will be awarded to three mid-career California artists every two years. The process will be peer nomination followed by a panel of arts professionals that will select the three grantees.
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FOCAFellowships
Biennial, unrestricted grants of $10,000 each-- are awarded to three artists in recognition of their current and significant contributions to California art.
The recipients of the 2008 FOCAFellowships are Dorit Cypis, Martin Kersels, and Julio Cesar Morales.
An exhibition of the works of these fellowship recipients will take place September-December 2008, at the FOCA space in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.
The recipients of the 2006 FOCAFellowships were Vincent Fecteau, Evan Holloway, and Monica Majoli.
An exhibition of the works of these fellowship recipients took place in September 2006, at the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts.
Available through nomination only, FOCAFellowships are designed to further encourage and support California artists with an exhibition history of 10-25 years. A five member panel of distinguished curators nominates ten artists each who were invited to apply. Final selection is determined by a jury of three arts professionals.
About the Artists:
2008
DORIT CYPIS explores questions of identity and representation through performance, multimedia installation, and photography. She often focuses on issues of authorship, the threshold between subject and object, and modes of seeing. Much of her work is performative, involving strategies to literally penetrate the image in order to uncover layers of meaning - this performance exists as residue in the form of photographs. Cypis is concerned with the body as the medium through which knowledge is gained. She explores notions of a collective memory as well as personal memories, heritage, and history. Her work of late has been influenced by her study of conflict resolution and strategies of mediation, negotiation, and conciliation.
An innovative Los Angeles-based artist, MARTIN KERSELS draws on the worlds of performance, film, video, popular and experimental music, and mechanical science for his inspiration and materials. He employs humor, pathos, and kinetic energy to create works that explore the expressive potential of--as well as the inextricable connection between--the machine and the individual. Whether a baby grand piano that winches itself across the gallery floor or a rubber band-powered prosthetic leg that frantically kicks the gallery wall, his constructions share an innate sense of theatricality. They follow their own choreography, play their own soundtracks, and occasionally take pratfalls. Frequently funny at first glance, Kersels’ works—exploring issues of proportion, social fit, and comfort—often reveal the awkwardness and embarrassment of quite literally not fitting in.
JULIO CESAR MORALES is an artist, educator and curator currently working both individually and collaboratively. Morales utilizes a range of media including photography, video, and printed and digital media to make conceptual projects that address the productive friction that occurs in trans-cultural territories such as urban Tijuana and San Francisco—and in inherently impure media such as popular music and graphic design. Morales teaches and creates art in a variety of settings, from juvenile halls and probation offices to museums, art colleges, alternative non-profit institutions. Morales’ work consistently explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies and identity strategies.
2006
VINCENT FECTEAU received his B.A.from Wesleyan University in 1992. Since then he has lived and worked in San Francisco. Most recently he has had shows in London at greengrassi, in New York at Feature, Inc. and with Tomma Abts at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. He is the recipient of a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and will present new work in the fall of 2006 at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne.
EVAN HOLLOWAY has been publicly exhibiting his sculpture since 1992. He recieved an MFA in 1997 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include "Mise-en-scene: new LA sculpture" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, "New Work" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has presented one person exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Brussels and Naples.
MONICA MAJOLI is based in Los Angeles. For over fifteen years, through her artistic practice, she has examined the relationship between physicality as expressed through sexuality and the intangible aspects of consciousness and identity. She received both her B.A. (1989) and her MFA (1992) in painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has had solo shows at Feature, Inc. in New York and Air de Paris, France. She is represented by Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and is scheduled to exhibit her work at Gagosian Gallery in New York in the spring of 2006. In addition to receiving the 2006 FOCA fellowship, Ms. Majoli was the recipient of a Getty Grant from the California Community Foundation in 2002, and was the Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. She is currently teaching in the Graduate Studies program at Yale, at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is in numerous private collections and is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Images of these artists’ work are coming soon.
Biennial, unrestricted grants of $10,000 each-- are awarded to three artists in recognition of their current and significant contributions to California art.
The recipients of the 2008 FOCAFellowships are Dorit Cypis, Martin Kersels, and Julio Cesar Morales.
An exhibition of the works of these fellowship recipients will take place September-December 2008, at the FOCA space in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.
The recipients of the 2006 FOCAFellowships were Vincent Fecteau, Evan Holloway, and Monica Majoli.
An exhibition of the works of these fellowship recipients took place in September 2006, at the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts.
Available through nomination only, FOCAFellowships are designed to further encourage and support California artists with an exhibition history of 10-25 years. A five member panel of distinguished curators nominates ten artists each who were invited to apply. Final selection is determined by a jury of three arts professionals.
About the Artists:
2008
DORIT CYPIS explores questions of identity and representation through performance, multimedia installation, and photography. She often focuses on issues of authorship, the threshold between subject and object, and modes of seeing. Much of her work is performative, involving strategies to literally penetrate the image in order to uncover layers of meaning - this performance exists as residue in the form of photographs. Cypis is concerned with the body as the medium through which knowledge is gained. She explores notions of a collective memory as well as personal memories, heritage, and history. Her work of late has been influenced by her study of conflict resolution and strategies of mediation, negotiation, and conciliation.
An innovative Los Angeles-based artist, MARTIN KERSELS draws on the worlds of performance, film, video, popular and experimental music, and mechanical science for his inspiration and materials. He employs humor, pathos, and kinetic energy to create works that explore the expressive potential of--as well as the inextricable connection between--the machine and the individual. Whether a baby grand piano that winches itself across the gallery floor or a rubber band-powered prosthetic leg that frantically kicks the gallery wall, his constructions share an innate sense of theatricality. They follow their own choreography, play their own soundtracks, and occasionally take pratfalls. Frequently funny at first glance, Kersels’ works—exploring issues of proportion, social fit, and comfort—often reveal the awkwardness and embarrassment of quite literally not fitting in.
JULIO CESAR MORALES is an artist, educator and curator currently working both individually and collaboratively. Morales utilizes a range of media including photography, video, and printed and digital media to make conceptual projects that address the productive friction that occurs in trans-cultural territories such as urban Tijuana and San Francisco—and in inherently impure media such as popular music and graphic design. Morales teaches and creates art in a variety of settings, from juvenile halls and probation offices to museums, art colleges, alternative non-profit institutions. Morales’ work consistently explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies and identity strategies.
2006
VINCENT FECTEAU received his B.A.from Wesleyan University in 1992. Since then he has lived and worked in San Francisco. Most recently he has had shows in London at greengrassi, in New York at Feature, Inc. and with Tomma Abts at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. He is the recipient of a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and will present new work in the fall of 2006 at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne.
EVAN HOLLOWAY has been publicly exhibiting his sculpture since 1992. He recieved an MFA in 1997 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include "Mise-en-scene: new LA sculpture" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, "New Work" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has presented one person exhibitions in Los Angeles, London, Brussels and Naples.
MONICA MAJOLI is based in Los Angeles. For over fifteen years, through her artistic practice, she has examined the relationship between physicality as expressed through sexuality and the intangible aspects of consciousness and identity. She received both her B.A. (1989) and her MFA (1992) in painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally and has had solo shows at Feature, Inc. in New York and Air de Paris, France. She is represented by Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and is scheduled to exhibit her work at Gagosian Gallery in New York in the spring of 2006. In addition to receiving the 2006 FOCA fellowship, Ms. Majoli was the recipient of a Getty Grant from the California Community Foundation in 2002, and was the Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001. She is currently teaching in the Graduate Studies program at Yale, at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is in numerous private collections and is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Images of these artists’ work are coming soon.