The New Arts Foundation

Yanbin Zhao
Joseph Wilcox
Terry Silvester
Sydney Shavers
Jillian Mayer
Max Harper
Vardit Goldner
David Finkelstein
Laurence Favre
Mikaela Elson
Pierre Yves Clouin
Fía Benitez

Curated by Greg Jenkins

Bios

Yanbin Zhao is a filmmaker and an artist based in Shanghai and Los Angeles. His practices include 16mm experimental film, video installation, performance, and photography, through which he explores the possibility of translating and materializing the intangibility of history, politics, as well as personal memories. He received an MFA in Film from California Institute of the Arts.
www.yanbinzhao.com
@zhao.yanbin

By adopting the roles of image gatherer, documentarian, object-maker, and organizer, Joseph Wilcox explores how institutional control, political systems, and social power structures undermine individual & collective autonomy. He is the co-founder and director of Lydian Stater and has been an artist-in-residence at the NARS Foundation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, HATCH Projects at the Chicago Artists Coalition, and LATITUDE Chicago. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Good Children Gallery (New Orleans, LA), Chicago Artists Coalition (Chicago, IL), and The Rangefinder Gallery (Chicago, IL). He received his MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design and his BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
www.joseph-wilcox.com
@joseph_wilcox

Terry Silvester is an artist working predominantly in film. Embedded with a documentary impulse, his works take root from real characters and events, which are refracted through the lens of an autobiographical consciousness. Poetically elevated erratic narratives move between the deeply personal and the extreme. Sequences are fragmented, so do not unfold in a linear way, instead jumping from one moment to the next. These moments are autobiographical and are drawn from the artist’s own memories and experiences. There is no attempt to hide the artist’s presence, and this is integral to the folding and unfolding of the images across time and space. The interaction between characters and the camera’s lens play a vital role in bringing forth a fragility that transcends the artist’s personal endeavors.
www.terrysilvester.co.uk
@terrysilvester

Sydney Shavers is an artist & writer living and working in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown nationally & internationally including Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NY), Hauser & Wirth (Chelsea), and the Austrian Cultural Forum (NY). 
@sydney_shavers

Jillian Mayer is an artist and filmmaker. Through videos, sculptures, online experiences, photography, performances, and installations, Mayer explores how technology affects our lives, bodies, and identities by processing how our physical world and bodies are impacted and reshaped by our participation in a digital landscape. Mayer investigates the points of tension between our online and physical worlds and makes work that attempts to inhabit the increasingly porous boundary between the two. Mayer's artwork has a consistent thread of modeling how to subvert capital-driven modes of technological innovation.

Solo exhibitions include Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska (2019), Kunst Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (2019), University of Buffalo Art Museum, Buffalo NY (2018), Tufts University, Boston, MA (2018); Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL (2016); LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT (2014); and David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL (2011 & 2016). She has exhibited, screened films, and performed at  MoMA PS1 (2017); MoMA (2013); the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (2013); the Bass Museum of Art, North Miami, FL (2012); the Guggenheim Museum (2010); and the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec as a part of the Montréal Biennial (2014). Mayer’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art Papers, Art in America, ArtNews, The Huffington Post, and The New York Times. Mayer is a recipient of the Creative Capital Fellowship, South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual/Media Artists Fellowship, Cintas Foundation Fellowship for Cuban Artists, and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine.

She has lectured at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, CalArts, the Sundance Institute, ICA Miami, Carnegie Mellon University, Otis College of Art & Design, Tufts University, Salt Lake Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, University of Texas Arlington, McCord Museum, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, SXSW, Portland State University, Museum of Fine Arts St. Pete, Pitzer University, MoCA North Miami and more.

Mayer's films have screened at festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Rottenberg Film Fest, and the New York Film Festival. She is a fellow of the Sundance Institute's New Frontiers Lab and New Narratives on Climate Change Lab.

Mayer is represented by David Castillo Gallery, in Miami, FL.

www.jillianmayer.net
@jillian_mayer_

Max Harper is a filmmaker and installation artist from Los Angeles. His work is focused on body, labor, death, and shelter. His film works have screened at Frieze LA and REDCAT, and his photography has shown at Galeria Mola in Portugal. He has received support from the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture.
@eddiefresnel

Vardit Goldner is a photography and video artist. She's engaged in documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — mainly its effects on daily life of Palestinians — and addresses social, environmental, and animal issues. She studied at the Faculty of Arts, Hamidrasha at Beit Berl College, Israel, completing the Postgraduate Fine Arts Program, and she holds an M.Sc. in physics.
@varditgoldner

David Finkelstein is a Guggenheim Fellow in film/video. His video work has been featured in numerous film festivals around the world and has won awards at 28 of them. In 2013, he was an invited artist at the Traverse Vidéo Festival in Toulouse, France. His two feature films premiered at New Filmmakers in New York. He has had solo screenings of his films in Bilbao, London, Porto, New York, Chicago, Portland, Austin, North Carolina, Minnesota, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. His work has been funded by The Fund for Creative Communities, The Field, Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and other sources.
www.lakeivan.org

Laurence Favre works with still and moving images. Her work explores how to divert the dualities between the visible and the invisible, memory and oblivion, the real and the fictional, generating poetic spaces where movement can be triggered. Her films have been shown in international film festivals (Locarno, IFFR, HKIFF, among others), as well as in art spaces and informal spaces. She works and lives in Berlin and Geneva and is an active member of the artist-run film lab LaborBerlin.
www.lrncfvr.net

Mikaela Elson is a Los Angeles based vocalist, composer, video and sound artist, and teacher who specializes in dynamism in the voice. She has worked with artists such as KNOWER, companies like Long Beach Opera and the Industry Experimental Opera Company, as well as Just Jazz series. Mikaela also composes performance art pieces centered around raw emotion and vulnerability that includes her sound art and love for collaboration with other artists. Her next performance art piece, “H e r e.” will be performed with Open Gate Theatre as a recipient for the Pasadena Arts Grant in early 2024.
www.mikaelaelson.com
@_mikaelaelson

Pierre Yves Clouin is a video artist and filmmaker. He was born and is based in Paris. He studied architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and later exhibited his paintings and photos. His work has been honored with distinctions such as the Silver Spire Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival and Institut français Hors les murs residency Film, video/ Cinema. His videos have screened at BFI and Lux London, Paula Cooper and Apexart New York, Saw Gallery Ottawa, Media Art Lab Moscow, Pro Arte Institute St. Petersburg, Mexico's Museo Tamayo, MOCA LA, Guggenheim Bilbao, Museum of Africa Johannesburg, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Cinematheque, Modern Art Oxford, MUHKA Antwerp, Centre Pompidou, in the International Film Festivals of San Francisco, Chicago, Cork, Thessaloniki, Moscow, Los Angeles, Ars Electronica, Sundance and FID Marseille among many others.
www.pierreyvesclouin.fr
@py.clouin

Fía Benitez is an artist living in Los Angeles. They are a 2022 REEF Artist-in-Residence and a 2020 Research & Practice Fellow, with recent solo and group exhibitions at The Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, NÉVÉ, The Reef, Tin Flats, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, 7313 Melrose, Newhall Crossings, Other Places Art Fair, and CalArts. Publications include Tense Renderings: the will and won’t of spatial logics, re:connections, water / relic / spices, as well as Baest Journal, Sublevel Magazine, The Kitchen Blog, and The Vassar Review. Fía holds degrees from Vassar College and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
@n0_relation

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