Thursday
Aug192010
Resident Spotlight 2010: Paul Clay
August 19, 2010 
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Inaugural participant in EFA Project Space's
Residency for Arts Workers as Artists
Paul Clay is the Founder of the Cuchifritos art gallery/project space, and is currently a board member of the Artists Alliance Inc.
We asked each resident to tell us about their work and their experience during the residency, and more about their professional lives as both artists and arts workers. Here are Paul's answers...
What Paul is working on:
Rather than create a fully conceptualized work for the EFA Project Space pilot residency, I am simply exploring the use of photography, text, and cartoons, to respond to my immediate environment.
Separate from that, I am also thinking about law and contracts, pedagogy and tutoring, and sex and societal control, as issues from which to produce possible future work.
Paul Clay is a visual artist, designer, and arts administrator whose work spans many different fields. His perspective comes from an interest in anthropology, contemporary media, and social change. Mr. Clay is the Founder of the Cuchifritos art gallery/project space, and is currently a board member of the Artists Alliance Inc. (AAI). He is Chair of the Cuchifritos Curatorial Advisory Committee and Founder of Cuchifritos Gallery where he served as Director for 7 years. He also served as AAI's Director of Programming and Development. Mr. Clay also does set lighting and video design for theater, opera, dance and events, and designed the set for the Pulitzer prize winning Broadway Musical Rent, 1997. As a visual artist he has shown internationally, been interviewed on local television in New York, and has been reviewed in such publications as ARTnews, The New York Times, The London Times, Time Out (New York and London), The Guardian of London, Tema Celeste, Print, Zingmagazine, and NY ARTS magazine, and has also received numerous awards including the Municipal Arts Society Times Square Spectacular, Manchester Evening News Theatre Award, National Endowment for the Arts/ TCG Fellow, Drama Desk, and Bessie award.
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