2023 Artist-in-Residence
The Delaware Contemporary is pleased to announce our four accepted artists for the 2022/2023 onsite Artist-In-Residence program. These artists were selected for a year-long residency program to occupy a fully-funded, shared studio. Artists-In-Residence will engage with their fellow cohort of residents, the community of Studios@ artists, TDC staff, and public outreach projects. Residents will work toward a cumulative exhibition at The Contemporary in the summer of 2023.
Kasmira Cade Seymour
Kasmira Cade Seymour is an artist comfortable in many mediums, an art educator, independent curator, and a published poet. Her artwork is bright, colorful, and thought provoking. It speaks to common human experiences we have. Kasmira was born in Philadelphia and raised in Southern New Jersey. She currently resides in Wilmington, Delaware.
Alejandro Danilo Leal
Alejandro Danilo Leal was born in Quilpué, Chile and immigrated to the United States when he was 2 years old. He grew up across the river from New York City in Weehawken, New Jersey and now makes his home in Wilmington, Delaware. His formal art training came from the Art Students League of New York, where he began to experiment by mixing both digital and classical approaches to figure drawing and was awarded the Nessa Cohen Grant in 2010. He has studied with various well known painters including Nelson Shanks, Burt Silverman, and primarily with Costa Vavagiakis and David Jon Kassan.
Shefon N. Taylor
Shefon N. Taylor (b. 1988, Wilmington, DE) is an artist called by the secret realms of the archive. At the heart of her artistic practice is a profound curiosity with notions of rememory, the intimate pursuit of belonging, and the ways absence presences in the archive to shape interiority.
John Webb
John Webb graduated in 2013 with a BFA in painting and drawing from East Carolina University. While studying at ECU he also explored photography, printmaking, sculpture, illustration, and ceramics. For his senior show he developed an imaginative narrative called "plight." In exploring different mediums John found a love for ceramics and created a ceramic installation to add a three dimensional element to his exhibition. Subsequently, in 2014 he relocated to Landenberg, PA and created additional work for his plight series and in 2015 got the opportunity to show his linear narrative and ceramic installation at the Chris White Gallery in Wilmington, DE.
