Second Session of Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace Opens February 23
This winter, Wave Hill opens Glyndor Gallery as workspace for New York-area artists, giving them the unique opportunity to explore the winter landscape as a source of inspiration. Each artist will benefit from intimate exposure to our garden setting, whether through direct observation, natural communion or exploration. Artists share their studio practice with the public through workshops offered on select days in March and at an Open Studio held on April 11. All workshops with Winter Workspace artists begin in their Glyndor Gallery studios with an introduction to their creative process. Unless otherwise noted, art materials are provided. The workshop fee, which includes admission to the grounds, is $15, or $5 for Wave Hill Members. Advance registration is recommended. Open Studios are free with admission to the grounds. Children ages 10 and older are welcome to register for workshops if accompanied by an adult.
Workspace Session: February 23–April 12
Participating artists include 2015 Van Lier Visual Artist Fellows Julian Chams and Beatrice Glow, Musa Hixson, Elizabeth Hoy, Sara Jimenez and Amy Lincoln.
Julian Chams will project and print crisp imagery onto soft fabric sculptures inspired by our grounds. Beatrice Glow recreates archives of forgotten or suppressed stories. At Wave Hill, she will research the transmission of nature in colonial contexts. Whether using wood, metal or rattan, Musa Hixson allows his materials to reveal their inner life. During the Winter Workspace, he will experiment with using air plants in his sculptures. Extending her experiments in working plein-air, Elizabeth Hoy will seek to capture the luminosity of this Hudson estate in her layered abstract paintings. Sara Jimenez’s sculptures and drawings in impermanent media, such as salt crystals, build on her interest in vulnerability. With the visual aid of our ample succulent collection, Amy Lincoln will continue to make her quietly marvelous paintings of invented landscapes.
Session 2 Includes Four Workshops Open to the Public
Saturday, March 7, 1–4PM
Elizabeth Hoy: Monotyping the Winter Landscape
Select patterns, shapes and colors foraged from the grounds to experiment using this quick and fun printmaking medium.
Saturday, March 14, 1–4PM
Sara Jimenez: The Sensorial Body: Exploring Through Performance
Explore the expressive possibilities of your body in movement exercises inspired by Wave Hill’s landscape. Open to participants over the age of 14.
Tuesday, March 17, 10AM–1PM
Amy Lincoln: Inventing Landscapes
Draw and paint snippets of the grounds and greenhouses, and then combine your fragments into an invented composite space.
Sunday, March 22, 1–4PM
Musa Hixson: (Re)vision Project
Using drawings and discussion, design a plan for making your community more environmentally sustainable.
Saturday, April 11, 1–3PM
Open Studios
Artists share their studio practice with the public during open studios.
Wave Hill’s Visual Arts Program presents artwork in the galleries and on the grounds that engages the public in dialogue with nature, culture and site. Wave Hill’s curatorial team includes Jennifer McGregor, Director of Arts & Senior Curator; Gabriel de Guzman, Curator of Visual Arts, and David Xu Borgonjon, Curatorial Fellow. Workshops are coordinated by Shannon Murphy, Wave Hill’s Public Programs Manager.
Support for the Winter Workspace Program is provided by the New York Community Trust and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional support for the Visual Arts Program is provided by the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation and the Cathy and Stephen Weinroth Commissioning Fund for the Arts.
Wave Hill’s Van Lier Visual Arts Fellows are supported by a grant from The New York Community Trust’s Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund.
Wave Hill, Inc. is an independent, non-profit cultural institution governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. The buildings and grounds of Wave Hill are owned by the City of New York. With the assistance of the Bronx Borough President and Bronx representatives in the City Council and State Legislature, Wave Hill’s operations are supported with public funds through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the Zoos, Botanical Gardens and Aquariums Grant Program administered by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.