ryen heart. Photo by Macy Verges.
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2022 CPR Artist-in-Residence ryen heart has selected a group of artists to share their work, in an attempt to extend alchemical encounters out in the world through a curatorial process. Edythe Woolley, Kate Williams & Jack Meriwether, and Maxi Hawkeye Canion have expanded ryen’s sense of what is possible through their work of cultivating unexpected, queer, transformative relations of care with objects, other humans, and the invisible world.
Edythe Woolley is a London born performance artist living and working in Queens, NYC. They use somatic movement inquiries, drawing, video and object-based improvisation to trouble the edges and hierarchies between human bodies, affect and object-hood, creating mythic and emotional landscapes structured by feeling. Edythe’s work has been commissioned by The Yard Theatre London, SPILL Festival Ipswich and supported by Arts Council England. In 2022 Edythe was featured in ArtForum. Lead by curiosity, process and collaboration is an important part of Edythe’s practice. Edythe has taught workshops at universities and schools across the UK and they were a Teaching Fellow at Al-Quds Bard College, Palestine (2021). Edythe graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from Bard College New York (2022) and holds a Bachelor Degree in English Literature and Performance with honors from Queen Mary University London (2015).
Kate Williams is a performance artist, mover, choreographer, and seamstress/maker of many different types of clothing and wearable things, from Connecticut who now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Kate’s work primarily centered around the exploration of her Asian-American identity. Her dance career started at Bard College. Over the past four years, through movement and clothing design, she has begun to explore the question she has asked herself since she was a child: “what does my Asian-American identity meant to me?” As a transracial adoptee Kate’s conceptualizations about her racial identity were heavily influenced by her proximity to whiteness. This is a large part of her choreographic process. Her work is narrative-based from personal experiences.Through the creation and playing with different characters derived from the layers of personal identity, Kate uses her skills of sewing to dress the works that she creates, which adds a sculptural element to the movement. She frequently collaborates with Jack Meriwether, an incredible poet, performance artist, and actor, located in Brooklyn, New York. Jack is a part of, and collaborator in, the current series of works that Kate has begun.
Maxi Hawkeye Canion (they/them) is a desert raised Improviser/Movement Artist based in Brooklyn, NY. They are originally from El Paso, TX. Sifting through their innerverse, they are continuously expanding upon their interests in visual design, sound and duration. Their work is crafted through a Black/Latinx and Queer lens and is a communication with their subconscious and culmative histories. Community and collaboration is integral to their process.
Open Studios is a series of work-in-progress showings held regularly throughout the year, organized by guest curators, and serves as an incubator for new work, inviting the public into the artistic process.
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