During this 3 month residency I am primarily working with the industrial housing material, Tyvek, which I discovered in 2008 wrapped on houses, I begin with handcutting (without prior sketching) marks that cannot be erased. I'm interested in advancing the material
using process of making it unrecognizable from its original purpose and function, which is to seal and protect.
In intervening with positive and negative space, and pushing the form with manipulation, I am engaged in what it
is to stretch and develop a material's potential, as a symbol for change and transformation
led by chance, control and uncertainty, elements of both life and art.
In drawing, gesture, and layering, making is part of the content.--
http://ulaeinstein.com
BIO
A Swiss born, NYC-based multi-disciplinary artist, Üla’s work is internationally exhibited in galleries, museums, and non-profit art spaces, and included among numerous collectors. In an expanded practice, she is exploring material intervention and culture, material abstraction, surface tension and dichotomy of absence/presence, shadow/light, substance/fragility.
In 2017 Einstein's work is scheduled to exhibit in Two Artists - Lakefront Gallery, Robert Wood Johnson University, NJ and in Text/ure at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, NYC . Her work in 2016 is currently included in Chewing Tar – Industrial Materials in the Service of Art, Lichtundfire Gallery, 175 Rivington St., NYC through October 23rd 2015 Included exhibiting in The 21st Century Artist is a Nomad – the inaugural FLUX Art Fair, NYC. All/Together/Different at the Manny Cantor Center, NYC included her work among selected downtown NYC artists. In 2014 Einstein's work was included in No Longer Empty's If You Build It, invited by Art in Flux. The Object as a Living Thing a 3-artist exhibition at DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, NY. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues including The Delaware Center for The Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE; Everhart Museum of Art and Science in Scranton, PA, L’Adodart – Paris, France, Goya Girl Contemporary Art, MD, La Maison d'Art, NYC, Garrison Art Center, Hudson Valley, NY Heidi Cho Gallery, NYC, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, The Griffin Museum, Winchester, MA, Maloney Art Gallery, NJ; Towson University Art, Gallery, MD, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT; the London Biennale; the Oakland Museum of CA, Oakland, CA; the Tryon Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC; the McAllen International Art Museum, McAllen TX; the Museum of Vancouver,BC; the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles,CA; and the Zentralbibliothek, Zürich, Switzerland. Deakin University Gallery, Victoria, Australia. She has presented work and participated in the panel on Towards Anarchitecture at the New York Center for Architecture. Fellowship residencies include The Santa Fe Art Institute, and Eileen S. Kaminsky Foundation / MANA Contemporary.
Einstein's work has been featured in several publications, radio, and online magazines including The New York Times, the Village Voice, Hyperallergic, and both the Easthampton and Southampton Press. She is a featured artist in the White Hall Productions film Artists in Conversation, and interviewed often in print and online. She was interviewed in the studio about her work and process for LaBiennaleTV. Her photographs from The Unwinding Destiny Project are included in the book Infinite Instances, Studies and Images of Time, currently in 6 languages, Mark Batty Publisher. Libro Arte/Abierto”, which can be roughly translated as “Open Book Art”, publication of the book is coordinated by Dr. Hortensia Minguez, professor of art at University of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
