We are very excited to announce our Spring 2026 Artist in Residence, Carolyne Loreé! (@__carolyne__ )
Thank you to everyone who applied this round, the applications have been incredible and we hope you will reapply for fall if you believe you will be a good fit here!
Carolyne Loreé Teston is a photographer and performance artist based in NYC.
Her work is anchored in a curiosity of our daily performances and what incentivizes them. A conversation of autonomy is present as she creates imagery that explores the construction of self, specifically in relation to power dynamics of gaze. She teaches a portrait photography workshop, PRISM, in Brooklyn, which centers the ethics of looking and relational exchange in image-making.
“I am a photographer and performance artist based in New York City. My work begins with a curiosity about our daily performances: the subtle negotiations, gestures, and self-presentations that shape how we move through the world. I use photography and performance to examine how the self is constructed, particularly in relation to the gaze and shifting power dynamics between subject and author.”
Please see more information about Carolyne and our Artist in Residence program at our link in bio.
There are a couple days left to see 𝐸𝓂𝓊𝓁𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝐸𝓂𝓊𝓁𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 with @clubland.gallery in Greenpoint ♥️
This film was made from a surveillance camera recording portrait sessions in my studio, watching the subjects slip in + out of performances of self.
A FORMATIVE IMPRESSION
@__carolyne__
The fitting room functions as a hall of small chambers, where individuals are aligned in a row, each having a deeply personal experience only a few feet apart.
Editor and Interview @beautyparanoia
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RECIPROCITY
November 2023 at Intima
(The full 26 minute version is on my website)
A performance and film featuring Funto Omojola, Savannah Lyons Anthony, Yasmin Moon and myself
Score by Chantal Michelle
Documentation by Cherry Nin
And by me during + as part of the performance
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The performance and film Reciprocity explores immediacy of time, image-making as performance, and technology’s influence on self perception. Three performances overlap with one another culminating in a fever-dream featuring a lecture derived from AI on reciprocal light theorem, a woman wrestling with a block of ice while trying to get to a camera frozen inside, and two people mashing faces to transfer clown makeup from one to the other while simultaneously filming themselves. A live-feed projection plays behind them, allowing the audience to see their actions close up.
Thank you so much @funtofuntofunto@savannerrrr@chantalmichelle@yasminmoonmoon@cherry__nin and @joni.c0m for having me ♥️
@prism__workshop 🌹 Teaching this photography workshop (Portraiture as Reciprocal Seeing) out of my studio this summer felt transformative. I learned things I could never have anticipated and am so excited to host another one starting in October🍂 Link in bio for info + to register!
Thank you @mustarrrrd@eryn__danielle@yasminmoonmoon@andreasurget@claudetay.lor@karinasharif@buttpicture for showing me what teaching could look and feel like♥️ I’m forever grateful:)
