Artspace welcomes our 2012 Artist-in-Residence, Giada Crispiels

On your upcoming visits to Artspace, you’ll be seeing a lot more of Giada Crispiels, our 2012 Artist-in-Residence. With a background in graphic design and set design, Giada creates work using common objects and materials, reworking them to create something extraordinarily different. Giada’s paper-based sculpture graced the 2011 Alternative Space during City-Wide Open Studios, and we couldn’t be happier to have her in the gallery on a more permanent basis.

At the same time, we bid farewell to our terrific 2011 Artist-in-Residence, Colin Burke. Colin was often found smiling at the front desk of the gallery, DJing our events, and pouring tall glasses of wine as our resident bartender. His magnificent, luminous Deliquescence at the Whitney Library of the New Haven Museum, one of the Library Science satellite projects, was the subject of recent accolades in the arts journal Flaneur. Colin, you will be sorely missed!

Image: Giada Crispiels, Follow the Butterfly, 2011, courtesy of the artist