Explore the work of Duke Riley, Martha Hincapié Charry, and Matthew Craven as their open up their studios for the public!
In Process @ The Watermill Center is our ongoing series of open rehearsals, workshops, artist talks, and studio visits that invite the community to engage with the work of our international Artists-in-Residence. The Watermill Center invites audiences of all ages and backgrounds to gain unique insight into the creative process of artists, cultivating an understanding of how artists from across the globe develop new work.
All attendees must be fully vaccinated, and present proof of vaccination during check-in. For a full list of COVID Safety Regulations, please click here.
About The Artists
Duke Riley’s work addresses the tension between individual and collective behavior, independent spaces within all-encompassing societies, and the conflict with institutional power. He examines transgression zones and their inhabitants through drawing, printmaking, mosaic, sculpture, performative interventions, infiltrations, and video structured as complex multimedia installations. Riley has had solo exhibitions at Magnan Metz Gallery, New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY; and the Havana Biennial, among many others. He has received numerous awards and commissions, including a Percent for Art commission, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, and the MTA Arts For Transit commission for the Beach 98th Street Station renovation. Riley is a 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellow at The Watermill Center.
Martha Hincapié Charry is a Colombian BIPOC artist, choreographer, performer, and independent curator, based in Berlin. Charry is a Pina Bausch Fellow. She studied dance in her home country and dance theater at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen under the direction of Pina Bausch. Her creations have been presented in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She has received several awards and scholarships. She has danced at the Wuppertaler Tanztheater, Stadttheater Münster, Bochumer Schauspielhaus, Theater Aachen, as well as in numerous independent productions with artists such as Okwui Okpokwasili, Asad Raza, Stefan Brinkmann, Sasha Waltz, Teodor Currentzis, Jochen Sandig, The Rundfunkchor, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Thomas Fiedler, Alessandra Pirici or Bob Wilson, a.o. She is artistic director of the Plataforma/SurReal Berlin festival and associate curator of Radial System Berlin, La Sierra Artist Residency, and the Bienal de Danza de Cali, Colombia. In her artistic and curatorial practice, she reflects on the processes of decolonization experienced by artists migrating to Europe or as part of local utopias, opening a space for dialogue between continents, generating a transdisciplinary reflection on the human body, (de)colonialism, indigenization, as well as on the critical relationship between humans and nature and the visible and the invisible world.
Matthew Craven is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work centers around found imagery combined with hand-drawn geometric patterns. He has shown in galleries all over the world including, New York, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Switzerland. His work has been reviewed in notable outlets including The Huffington Post, Art Critical, and The Brooklyn Rail. In 2017, he was the artist-in-residence for the Marfa Myths Festival. Anthology Editions just released PRIMER, the first monograph of MatthewCraven’s work. Utilizing found images from textbooks along with his own geometric patterns, Matthew Craven’s collages and illustrations seek to create a new handmade universe, juxtaposing imagery from different cultures and time periods to celebrate commonalities. Photographs of archaeological remains and the natural world are overlaid on colorful textiles drawn on the back of vintage movie posters, to create a hypnotic and mesmerizing vernacular of symbols and designs. Craven’s art reconfiguration of traditional historical narratives inspired by obsessive formations.
Additional Information
All attendees must be fully vaccinated, and present proof of vaccination during check-in. Those unable to show proof of vaccination will be turned away. For the foreseeable future, unvaccinated children are unable to attend. Masks are required indoors.
Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for the check-in process.
The Watermill Center is committed to providing accessible programs and services for all patrons and artists with disabilities. For further information about any accessibility issues or needs, please email us at info@watermillcenter.org.
image copyright Matthew Craven
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