For the last few weeks on Zoom, the Fall cohort of SVA RAN (Residency Alumni Network), consisting of more than twenty contemporary artists from all over the world, have been fiercely organizing an exhibition of recent work titled Sloom.

Sloom

V. to sleep lightly, to doze, to nod, to drift at the brink of consciousness

We had about three weeks to plan the entire exhibition after we were offered the beautiful space of Studio NineDee by artist Keren Rosenkrantz. The space is in the West Chelsea Arts Building at 508 W 26th st, #9D. On view November 9 through November 25.

Our cohort has one through-line. We are all alumni of the SVA Artist Residencies, (some of us are also SVA MFA and BFA Alum). RAN is offered every semester online, led by artist and gallerist Andrea Champlin. We meet once a week and collectively choose what we want to accomplish for the semester. Because the substance of the course is self-generated, each semester is very different. Our weekly meetings consist of online studio visits or someone does a presentation on a show they recently saw. Sometimes there is a virtual tour of Chelsea galleries and one time we even had a virtual walk-through of an exhibition at the Morgan Library. There are online discussion boards where we acquaint ourselves with each other’s work and brainstorm topics to elaborate on in the next meeting. There is a virtual water cooler, a sign-up for studio visits and affinity group ideas like public art, artist statements or MFA programs. We come in as complete strangers and leave as colleagues and friends through this intuitive ebb and flow of ideas.

SVA Residency Alumni Network Exhibits at Studio NineDee