Introducing Fall Residents and their work, presenting current and past projects with projected image and video.
SABRINA BASTEN - Berlin, Germany - sculpture in porcelain
GREGORY MERTL - New Milford, Connecticut - music composition
JAMESON RICH - Brooklyn, New York - non-fiction writing
CARLOS ZERPA - Caracas, Venezuela - video animated storytelling
Arrive early beginning 5:30pm for refreshments and to meet our artists and writers. Presentations begin at 6:00pm, and conclude by 7:30pm.
SABRINA BASTEN
It is my goal to create an awareness of the multiplicity of human perspectives created by the eternally progressing recombination of experiences. My multi-layered sculptural works explore the archetype of the female warrior. In the context of my method of 'Curved Knowledge', where I combine and equate personal experience and scientific knowledge, I integrate storytelling into a complex visual language. The ceramic warriors that emerge from my multidimensional process extend from the duality of the material, fragile porcelain, and their powerful gestures. They are drawn with life that crystallizes from the conversations and interactions with my environment. The union of physical object, storytelling and spatial interaction are characteristics of my practice. In my holistic approach, I interweave narratives and physical processes and seek ways to materialize memories and stories.
GREGORY MERTL
“A talent the ear wants to follow wherever it goes” (Boston Globe), Gregory Mertl has garnered commissions from the Tanglewood Music Center, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Tarab Cello Ensemble, the Phoenix Symphony, the Big Ten Wind Ensembles, the Ostrava Oboe Festival, Czech Republic, the Hanson Institute, and the Barlow Endowment for a piano concerto for Solungga Liu and the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble, which was released by Bridge Records in 2017. Of the Bridge release, the American Record Guide has written, “there’s a wealth of compositional ingenuity and detail, but better yet there’s what I might call attention to the human aspect of music–a concern with drama, passion, and psychological complexity alongside any purely technical achievement. That’s what makes me keep listening to it.” Mertl has degrees from Yale University (BA 1991) and the Eastman School of Music (Ph.D. 2005) and was a 1998 Tanglewood Composition Fellow, where he worked with Henri Dutilleux and Mauricio Kagel. His most recent works are a four-movement concerto for the French cellist Xavier Phillips and a work for pianist Heather Lanners premiered in early 2020. His newest release, in January 2023, is on the Frameworks Records label, which specializes in guitar music.
JAMESON RICH
Jameson Rich is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vox, InsideHook, The Outline, and more. He was a 2021 artist-in-residence at Yaddo. During the residency, he plans to continue work on his memoir manuscript, tentatively titled Bad Heart, about his own experiences growing up in the healthcare system and the trajectory of modern medicine, through the lens of the congenital cardiac field.
CARLOS ZERPA
Carlos Zerpa (Mecha Cooperative) is a screenwriter, creative producer, director and street artist based in Caracas, Venezuela. His creative practice emerges at the intersection of storytelling, visual arts, and social justice in South America and the Caribbean. His work seeks to empower underrepresented characters by creating transgressive, engaging, and irreverent stories. In 2010 he co-founded the cooperative ECL-MECHA (www.mecha.pro), a team with who he has co-created several award-winning street arts, editorial, and animation projects such as the series A Piece of Peace (www.pieceofpeace.co), Karetabla (www.karetabla.com) and FILO, the transmedia storytelling CHAMBA (2018), the books Mural y Luces (2012) and Alerta que Salpica (2015), the magazine PLoMO (2011-2014), the film essay Beyond the Mine (2015) and the animated documentary series Voices for Peace, Colombia (2017), among others. As a street artist, he has designed and painted dozens of statements on the walls of Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Cuba, Spain, and Argentina.