Summer 2023 Visiting Artists
Anthony Hawley and Becca Fischer (The Afield)
The Afield is a New York City-based multidisciplinary collaboration between visual artist/writer Anthony Hawley and violinist Rebecca Fischer. Combining new and original compositions for violin, voice, and electronics with video and other media, The Afield has premiered projects at National Sawdust, Carnegie Hall, the HIFA festival in Zimbabwe, KANEKO, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Residency Unlimited and elsewhere. In November of 2022, Art Papers magazine and the Atlanta Contemporary presented their project “Geograpologies.”
As first-violinist of the Chiara Quartet for 18 years, Rebecca Fischer toured, made recordings, and held residencies at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harvard University. She has premiered solo works by composers Lisa Bielawa, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, Mathew Fuerst, Augusta Read Thomas, Byron Au Yong, Pierre Jalbert and others. Recent solo recital engagements include Columbia University’s Miller Theater Pop-Up series, The Stone, and the University of Oregon. She is the concertmaster of Ensemble Baroklyn, a group run by pianist Simone Dinnerstein specializing in the music of Bach, and she performs regularly with other ensembles based in New York City. She teaches at the New School and is Executive Director of Greenwood Music Camp. Her book of personal essays The Sound of Memory: Themes from a Violinist’s Life was released in April 2022.
Anthony Hawley is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice spans video, installation, writing, sound, performance, drawing, and more. His short films and solo exhibitions have been presented by the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series (2020); The Salina Art Center (2018); Vox Populi Gallery (2014); Dolphin Gallery (2012) and others. In 2016, CounterCurrent, The Menil Collection, and Aurora Picture Show collaborated to produce his five-day multimedia performance event “Fault Diagnosis,” engaging audiences across the city of Houston with live performance, projections, a 1985 Nissan Pulsar NX turned micro-cinema, and audio narratives via a GPS-triggered app. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry The Concerto Form and Forget Reading (Shearsman Books, 2004, 2008), several chapbooks from Ugly Duckling Presse, Counterpath and others, as well as the artist book dear donald… (No Routine Books, 2021). His essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, Hyperallergic, and others. He teaches in the Hunter College MFA Studio Art Program.
Zachary Fabri
Zachary Fabri is a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist engaged in lens-based media and public space. He works across video, drawing, and installation, often complicating the boundaries of studio research and performance. He is the recipient of awards that include The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and the BRIC Colene Brown Art Prize. Fabri’s work has been exhibited at Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, El Museo del Barrio, The Walker Art Center, The Brooklyn Museum, Performa, and the Ludwig Museum in Budapest, Hungary. Collaborative projects include the Museum of Modern Art, the Sharjah Biennial, and Pace Gallery. Recent solo exhibitions include CUE Art Foundation, The Korn Gallery at Drew University, and The Nicholson Project. Currently, Zachary Fabri is the recipient of the 2024 Nancy B. Negley Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome.
Mary Mattingly
Mary Mattingly was born in 1978 in Rockville, Connecticut, and lives and works in New York. Mattingly’s work explores issues of sustainability, climate change and displacement. Mattingly combines photography, performance, portable architecture and sculptural ecosystems into poetic visions of adaptation and survival. Through her work, Mary Mattingly aspires to do more than issue a warning about environmental neglect and its aftermath. She offers specific solutions and architectural prototypes that we can build upon in our pursuit of a better life. She inspires hope that we can prepare for a changing world through innovative design and a restorative relationship with nature. Mattingly received a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and the Parsons School of Design and a Yale School of Art Fellowship in 2002. She was a resident at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center from 2011-2012. Her work has been shown at: the International Center of Photography, New York; the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; the New York Public Library; and in exhibitions in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, and Dubai. She has had solo exhibitions at: Robert Mann Gallery,[28] New York; White Box, New York; Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany, The New School, New York, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, and other exhibition spaces. (Sources: Artworksforchange.org, wikiwand.com)
Pooneh Maghazehe
Pooneh Maghazehe makes objects, prints, photos and sometimes performs. Using materials often for their symbolic qualities, Maghazehe’s approach to form maps the entanglements of encryption and erasure. The resulting works reveal an intuitive material record keeping that mutually empowers an original and the pulpy residues of its manipulation. Select exhibitions include KinoSaito Art Center, NY, Kathryn Brennan Gallery, NY, CPM Gallery, Baltimore, ICA Philadelphia, and ICA Portland. Pooneh is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Terence Nance
Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in hisfirst feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013, was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2014, and debuted his Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness on HBO in the summer of 2018. In the fall of 2018, it was announced that Nance was tapped to write, produce and direct Space Jam: A New Legacy, starring Lebron James, and in 2020 Terence released his first EP, THINGS I NEVER HAD under the name Terence Etc. In 2020 he also partnered with filmmakers Jenn Nkiru, Bradford Young, Nanette Nelms and Mishka Brown to form The Ummah Chroma Creative Partners – a directors collective and production company. This team released KILLING IN THY NAME in collaboration with Rage Against The Machine in January of 2021. Nance is currently at work on healing, curiosity, and interdimensionality following the 2022 release of both Random Acts of Flyness Program II as well as his debut album, VORTEX.
