TAC Artist-In-Residence 17 Final Exhibition: Stew
Guided Tour: September 19, 3pm - 5pm
On view: September 12 - 24, 2025, at the Textile Arts Center, 505 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
After a 9-month residency exploring the textile medium, Mateo Gutiérrez, Cici Osias, Margaret Roleke, Seyoung Hong, Diana Eusebio, Alessandro Levato, Vero Bello, and Vic Liu celebrated the opening of their exhibition titled Stew.
“A stew, a slowly cooked dish, serves as a metaphor for dedication to the homemade and the collective. It is a gathering of distinct ingredients, each carrying its own texture, history, and flavor, and through sustained proximity, they transform one another. Consider the time it takes to chop and simmer the elements. This commitment to sit with the low fire and tend to the mixture is a practice of care, whether it is for the domestic labor itself, or for the soil that provides the components, or for the community fed by the stew. Let it cook gently, and everything will becAlessandro Levatoome tender. In this tenderness there is a memory of home.
At the same time, “to stew” refers to being in deep reflection, pondering, not moving or taking any action. It can also mean to overthink, from a place of anxiety or overwhelm. Thus, rather than an act of intentional simmering, stewing can become stagnation.
The artists' works hold the complexities of this title. The pieces on display reveal a dedication to the details, to each element and its mixture, inviting the viewers to linger with them. Some artists, through natural dyeing, echo the literal act of “stewing,” for their fabrics almost need to be slowly cooked. Some offer a memory of home, a recipe for loved ones. While others respond to the lack of forward momentum, screaming for a response. While time for critical discussion and reflection is needed, we cannot remain beside the cooking pot. Eventually, the cooking is done and the stew is shared.” (Romina Schulz + AIR 17)
TAC AIR Cycle 17 are:
Mateo Gutiérrez
Mateo Gutiérrez is a New York- and Texas-based multidisciplinary artist who combines self-taught hand embroidery with painting, drawing, and video to examine the violence and xenophobia endemic to American life. Emigrating to the U.S. at sixteen, he draws on his background in philosophy to translate fleeting online news headlines into labor-intensive textiles and video loops, confronting modern media’s short attention span with marginalized histories rendered in meticulous detail.
Gutiérrez holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. His work was featured in the 2025 Texas Biennial and selected by curators including Jerry Saltz and The Met’s Abraham Thomas. He has exhibited at the Austin Museum of Art, Mexic-Arte Museum, and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, with coverage in *Hyperallergic*, *New American Paintings*, and *Glasstire*. A former Texas State University lecturer and 2024 TEDx speaker, he has lectured
internationally at Fordham, York, and Guelph Universities. His residencies include BronxArtSpace, the Textile Arts Center, Art14C, and the NARS Foundation (Fall 2026).
Cici Osias
Cici Osias (b. Baltimore, MD) is a textile artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work draws upon African American, Congolese, Haitian and Nigerian motifs to make meaning of her identity and hold her people close.
Within her textiles, Cici recognizes the role of cloth as a vessel for storytelling within African, Caribbean and African American culture. Through this work, she traces the vestiges of shared origin and collective memory across the Black diaspora.
Cici received a BA from Brown University and was a 2026 artist in residence at the Textile Arts Center and the Haiti Cultural Exchange. Most recently, her work has been featured around New York City at Carnegie Hall, Old Stone House, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Textile Arts Center and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Margaret Roleke
Margaret Roleke is a Brooklyn and Connecticut based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores gun violence, national identity, and systems of power through textiles, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. She earned her M.F.A. from Long Island University, C.W. Post, and her B.A. from Marymount Manhattan College.
Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues including The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, Ct.), the Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY), Pen + Brush Gallery (NYC), and WhiteBox (NYC). In 2024, she received an Artist Respond Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Her outdoor installations have been presented throughout the tri-state area including Morningside Park and Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem and several locations in upstate New York and Connecticut.
She has been awarded a 2027 residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado, where she will continue developing her interdisciplinary practice.
Seyoung Hong
Seyoung Hong is a visual artist from Washington DC and currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. A recent BFA grad from Rhode Island School of Design’s textile program with a concentration in environmental studies, her work focuses on materiality and the conveying of information through art.
Diana Eusebio
Diana Eusebio (b. 1998, Miami) is a Peruvian-Dominican textile artist from Miami. Eusebio holds a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Most recently during Art Basel 2025, she opened her first museum solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, on view until Spring 2026. Her work has been published in the Art Newspaper, Financial Times, Impulse Magazine, Whitewall, Artforum, Hyperallergic, WLRN, Surface Design Magazine, Vogue Italia, Paper Magazine, The New York Times, and Cultured Magazine. She has presented her work at the Museum of Modern Art (NY), School of Visual Arts (NY), Sotheby’s Frieze (NY), Hall of Nations (DC), Perez Art Museum Miami (FL), Rubell Museum (FL), Ringling Museum (FL), Lowe Art Museum (FL), Gregg Art Museum (NC), University of Massachusetts (MA), Rutgers University (NJ), MICA (MD), Nouveaux Deuxdeux Gallerie (Germany), Palazzo de Cartelloni (Italy), Pinta Art Fair (Peru), and Museo de Arte Moderno (Colombia). Awards include the Obama administration’s 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, the highest national honor for a young artist and 2024 YoungArts Jorge M. Perez $25,000 Prize. Her work is in permanent collections such as MOCA, National Park Service, Arsht Center, Miami-Dade Art and Public Places, Sotheby’s.
Alessandro Levato
Alessandro Levato is a transgender interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Their work explores their queer trans body through tactile, visual, and auditory forms, often incorporating materials like monotype paintings, audio and video documentation, cyanotypes, quilts and parachutes. Growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, they witnessed rigid gender binaries within the Amish community, and now use large-scale, process-driven and material-influenced work to document real and phantom embodiment. They have received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2019) and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Award (2022). Their work has been shown in group shows at Equity Gallery (2022) and Trotter & Sholer Gallery (2023). Alessandro attended Mudhouse Residency (2024) and The Penland School of Craft Winter Residency for printmaking (2025).
Vero Bello
Veronica Bello (b. Caracas) is a Brooklyn-based textile artist whose work is a meditation on memory, distance, and the imagined spaces that emerge from displacement.
Raised in Mexico City followed by South Florida, and as a member of Venezuela’s ongoing diaspora, she examines narratives constructed around places that no longer exist or are disappearing. At the center of her practice is her mother’s image archive, over 3,000 physical photographs spanning generations, which she reinterprets through weaving and Calado, a pulled-thread lace technique native to the Canary Islands and introduced to her by her grandmother. Together the two techniques accomplish both construction and deconstruction, opening gaps where memory blurs and invention begins.
Bello received a BFA in Textiles with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she was awarded a Global Exchange Scholarship to study material cultures in Oaxaca and received the Barbara L. Kuhlman Fiber Arts Scholarship. She was an Artist in Residence at the Textile Arts Center (2025–26) and recently completed her first solo exhibition at 7 Lispenard in Tribeca. She is currently a resident at the New York Latin American Arts Triennial on Governors Island until November 2026. Her work has been exhibited in London and across New York, and her writing has been featured in Hyperallergic.
Vic Liu
Vic Liu’s work is centered on the idea that there is no love without labor. Liu’s practice spans a vast array of time-intensive traditional crafts, including wood carving, embroidery, and quilt-making. They repurpose these traditions, historically utilized to communicate luxury and status, in order to honor marginalized and oppressed narratives. Liu’s work is a practice of devotion, resulting in the creation of alternative heirlooms for queer people, immigrants, and incarcerated individuals. Their embroidery piece Flesh and Labor will be shown at the upcoming Contextile Bienniale in Portugal.
Cover photo credits: Mateo Gutierrez, Your Capitalism Is Fucking Killing Us. Embroidery thread, lottery tickets, various fabrics, buttons, metal loops, wire, sewing thread, acrylic paint, color pencil & markers, tear-away stabilizer on plastic tarp with additional grommets, 2026. Photo by Shawn Inglima.