SSB Presents Steve Jansen: A Square Peg in a Round Hole
Steve Jansen, coming soon to SSB AWAY, is a sound maker who worked exclusively as a writer and visual artist for more than a decade.
Steve Jansen, coming soon to SSB AWAY, is a sound maker who worked exclusively as a writer and visual artist for more than a decade.
We’re pleased to host two unique artists on Plaza Blanca this Summer. Both offer an opportunity for Some Serious Business to reconnect and collaborate with artists we worked with in the past who continue to comment on the human condition.
Interruption is stress; it hinders creativity. For a writer in the midst of deep thought, it’s a shock to the system. You have to go back and start over. Ideas get lost.
On a 40-acre working olive oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, SSB and artist Carey Maxon offer artists a tranquil sanctuary.
In a rugged desert environment in northern New Mexico, SSB AWAY offers a 2-week residency on Plaza Blanca (“the white place”), memorialized in countless paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe.
Some Serious Business is pleased to host multidisciplinary artist, writer, mother, professor, and curator Christen Clifford as part of SSB AWAY’s artist-in-residence program in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
“SSB Away” is delighted to host composer, writer, and multi-disciplinary performer Paul Pinto for an artist residency this June on Plaza Blanca in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
Filmmaker Michie Gleason has been awarded SSB AWAY’s 2019 residency with a proposal to research a screenplay on the life of Balthus, the controversial artist, in Tuscany, where he experienced his deepest inspiration through the works of Piero della Francesca.
On a visit to MoMA last March, I paused inside a small room of De Chirico paintings. Surrounded by a suite of his mysterious compositions, I was struck by the specificity of the light—it was unmistakably Italian. The room itself felt like a much-needed escape from New York and triggered memories of my first experience…
SSB welcomes artist Sam Rosner for a two-week SSB AWAY artist residency in Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu, from October 13–27, 2018. Her project while in residence at the space (affectionately nicknamed The Mudball) responds to the trans-historical landscape of northern New Mexico, with a particular focus on the rock formations of Plaza Blanca, the cave dwellings…