R&F's 2023 Artists-In-Residence: Brad Ellis, Henry Curchod & Kuzana Ogg
Competition for our three artist residencies at Brown Pink this year was tough. With nearly 100 submissions, the panel of anonymous jurors had their work cut out for them. Thank you to all the artists who applied. We will open applications again next fall for 2024.
We’d like to introduce you to our 2023 Artists-In-Residence: Brad Ellis, Henry Curchod, and Kuzana Ogg. We are honored to welcome these talented artists to Brown Pink for a two week residency and look forward to seeing what they make.
Brad Ellis
Brad Ellis is a mid-career, Texas-based artist whose focus is on abstract painting. Throughout his career he has continually experimented with imagery from tightly rendered, systematic patterns to loosely constructed, expressionistic compositions.
For Brad, the pure physicality of encaustic paint combined with various collage elements render distinct textures and surface treatments that energize his abstract imagery with movement and excitement.
Brad earned his BFA from the University of Tulsa and his work is represented by art galleries across the country from Boston to Bellevue. His paintings are included in private and corporate art collections, including the U.S. State Department’s Art In Embassies Program in Kampala, Uganda. He is featured in both Texas Abstract, Modern + Contemporary and Encaustic Art In The Twenty-First Century. bradellisart.com
Brad Ellis, Black Trellis #2, 60” x 48”, encaustic, enamel, ink and collage on board, 2021
Henry Curchod
Henry Curchod, who currently resides in the UK, works primarily in painting and sculpture. He describes his work as “broadly resolv(ing) false histories in my life; using narrative to explore historical negationism on both a personal and global level, as well as symbols and themes that cross my Western upbringing and Iranian heritage.”
Working with dry pigments, charcoal, and oil stick on raw linen, Henry builds up layers in a hyper-physical approach to mark making, allowing a narrative and atmosphere to emerge over a period of time. He attempts to retain the aesthetic quality of ancient Persian miniature paintings on a large scale, maintaining reverence to the surface of the canvas, but focused on contemporary subject matter.
Exploring themes of hierarchy, brutality, persecution, capitalism, cultural cross-pollination, and kindness, Henry is interested in the complexity, depth, and layers that humans have connected and interacted with one another, particularly in groups, throughout history. The recipient of numerous awards, he has had solo shows in England, New Zealand, and Australia. henrycurchod.com
Henry Curchod, It is the doors of my perception, and the house that I live in, 77” x 132”, Oil stick, Pigment Stick, and charcoal on linen, 2022
kuzana ogg
Kuzana was born in Bombay. The first years of her life were divided between the ancestral home of her grandfather, surrounded by lush gardens and groves of coconut trees, and her grandmother’s exquisite Worli residence on the coast. Along with her family, Kuzana immigrated first to England, and then to New York.
As an art student at SUNY Purchase, Kuzana met her husband. They married in 1995, and moved to South Korea, spending six years teaching English in Kyung Ju.
Kuzana has participated in residencies in Minnesota, Sri Lanka, China, Scotland Latvia, and Iceland. In 2021, Kuzana completed a 4 year residency at El Zaguan on Canyon Road, and moved to Los Alamos. Her paintings have been included on the sets of television shows and feature films — the most recent of which are Sprung, Bloodline, Where’d You Go Bernadette, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Southpaw, and My All-American. She has exhibited internationally and had solo exhibitions at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art and the Bakersfield Museum of Art. kuzanaogg.com
Kuzana Ogg, Vohu Manah, oil on panel, 60” x 60”, 2022