Their first time back in a long time to their home state of Texas, Tom produced new paintings in the 100 West 3rd Floor Studio this January - February 2021. Tom's work is about what continues to pulse, to vibrate, to flavor, even after decay or misuse. The process is not the same gesture of renewal or resurrection found in spring, but rather, as the artist calls it, a kind of "fermentation.”
Documentary chronicling Erik DeLuca’s work and research across several sites - the Samuels Building, Corsicana Hebrew Cemetery, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park and Anteroom - into Milkweed, Monarch Butterflies, and Corsicana’s Jewish legacy.
Erik DeLuca’s project culminated under The Staff of Asclepias, a light and sound installation at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas Texas, collaborating Riso-Bar, the Pollock Gallery, Sofía Bastidas and May Makki .
Babette Samuels and Erik DeLuca ROPE WALKER podcast link.
92-year-old Babette Samuels shares a phone call with resident Erik DeLuca - the two have shared a friendship since Erik’s arrival to Corsicana, learning about her family’s late downtown clothing business, now Erik’s residency studio for growing milkweed for Monarch Butterfly way stations and more.
Düsseldorf, Germany
“This year I’ve been making, breaking, unmaking and remaking chain links, trying to understand this deeply loaded, yet simple form. The resulting work reveals chain’s dual nature: the insidious purpose to which it’s often put, and the cooperative system through which it functions. It restrains and restricts, but is also formed by a series of links that only work through their interconnectedness.”
For the Odd Fellows, three links represent FLT: friendship, love and truth - emboldened throughout 100W, this 1890s Lodge’s architectural ornament. And presents context for this momentary site specificity.
Resident Linnea Kniaz (NYC) is in conversation with Olivia Smith, director of Magenta Plains in NYC. Summer, 2020.
A brief studio visit into Linnea’s residency work.
Max Kuhn ROPE WALKER Podcast Link
In this conversation with former 100W resident Bruce Lee and Julie Webb, Max Kuhn describes his fascination with American cowboy culture and its fleeting presence as we once knew it, or maybe never really knew it, as it stands in the form of early 20th cent. cartoons, cinema and costumed figures like Big Tex. Max also covers his premise behind the diorama he created on the 3rd floor at 100W.
A video portrait of Max Kuhn describing his residency work.
Kuhn’s diorama will be exhibited this October - December across the street from 100W in Anteroom, a window-front gallery.
