Wave Hill Winter Workspace 2015
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 virtual exploration. Artists will share their studio practice with the public through workshops offered on select days in January, February and March and at Open Studios held at the end of each session. 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, and $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.
Session 1 takes place from January 2 to February 22. Participating artists include: Nicolás Dumit Estévez, Fay Ku, Julia Oldham, Alisha Wessler, Ivan Stojakovic and Saya Woolfalk.
Session 2 takes place from February 23 to April 12. Participating artists include: Julian Chams (2015 Van Lier Visual Artist Fellow), Beatrice Glow (2015 Van Lier Visual Artist Fellow), Musa Hixson, Elizabeth Hoy, Sara Jimenez and Amy Lincoln.
Session 1: January 2–February 22
Nicolás Dumit Estévez uses performance to focus on such rites of passage as baptism, immigration and marriage; at Wave Hill, he will continue to take the pilgrimage-like walks for which he is best known. In Fay Ku’s work, myths mutate and take on contemporary color; drawing from live plants will enrich the horizons that her characters inhabit. Casting herself “in the role of lover, wanderer and scientist,” Julia Oldham plans to stage and film an encounter with her “lover-coyote” along our woodland trails. Alisha Wessler transforms objects found in the city and the garden so that they evoke archaeological remains. To make his brand of brightly abstract “living art,” Ivan Stojakovic plays with succulent plants and construction materials. Finally, Saya Woolfalk uses the gardens and greenhouses as the setting for a video about an invented culture of plant-human hybrids.
Session 1 Workshops
Sunday, January 18, 1–4PM: Fay Ku: Ink and Color: A Gongbi Inspired Workshop
Learn to handle ink and color in the detailed and realistic gongbi style of traditional Chinese painting.
Saturday, January 24, 1–3PM: Nicolás Dumit Estévez: Sounding Silence and the Winter Walk
Take a mute stroll through the winter landscape, collaborate in silence in the studio, and end in conversation with hot ginger tea and cookies.
Saturday, January 31, 1–4PM: Alisha Wessler: Hybrid Objects: Amulets, Talismans, and Curiosities
In the tradition of Cabinets of Curiosities, make your own hybrid collectibles from materials found on the grounds and from your home.
Sunday, February 8, 1–4PM: Julia Oldham: Living Drawings
Try your hand at traditional cel animation, and leave with hand-drawn flipbooks that bring your characters to life.
Tuesday, February 10, 10AM–1PM: Ivan Stojakovic: Vertical Gardening: Interacting with Living Art
Work together to build a sculptural frame and arrange plants in it; your planting bed will turn into a collaborative wall sculpture.
Sunday, February 15, 1–2:30PM: Saya Woolfalk: Meditation as Artistic Practice
With invited meditation leader Biet Simkin, experience a 50-minute meditation combining breathing, virtual travel and aural exercises.
Saturday, February 21, 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, 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.
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