Introducing Fall Residents and their work, presenting current and past projects with projected image and video, at the MLK Jr. Center just east of downtown Corsicana. Arrive early beginning 5:30pm for refreshments and to meet the artists and writer. Presentations begin at 6:00pm.
EDD RAVN - Interdisciplinary - Yorkshire, United Kingdom
YURI YUAN – Painting - Jersey City, New Jersey
ORCHID TIERNEY - Poetry, Lyric Essay - Howard, Ohio | Aotearoa, New Zealand
EDD RAVN
Interdisciplinary - Yorkshire, United Kingdom - 2nd-floor studio
Edd Ravn’s practice explores cycles of growth, decay, and transformation through collaborative processes, alchemy, and experimentation. Working across painting, installation, and ritual-based practice, Ravn investigates the porous boundaries between the self and the surrounding world. His work invites reflection on ecological interdependence and the shifting relationships between human and non-human forces. During the residency, Ravn plans to immerse himself in Corsicana’s ecologies, histories, and small-community rhythms. His studio will function as its own microclimate, shaped by ongoing experiments. In dialogue with 100 West’s history of gathering, he will reflect on the convergence of Corsicana’s past and future, considering its oil legacy, agricultural roots, and emerging data-center presence.
Ravn holds a BFA from the Glasgow School of Art and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art. His interdisciplinary approach combines formal inquiry with philosophical and ecological concerns, building a practice that invites participation and centers on the transformative potential of art-making.
YURI YUAN
Painting - Jersey City, New Jersey - 3rd floor studio
Yuri Yuan paints surrealist scenes featuring ambiguous and physically impossible figure-landscape relationships to explore existentialist themes of longing and loss. Through visual symbolism, metaphors, and magical realism, the artist explores the ways in which exterior landscapes become projections of her and her audience’s interior psychological states. Her recent solo exhibition, Hide and Seek, at Alexander Berggruen Gallery, explored the emotional complexities of loneliness, anxiety, and vulnerability. These works reflect the fear of exposure and the shifting dynamics between observer and observed. Each painting incorporates a literal or metaphorical veil—simultaneously revealing and concealing—prompting viewers to consider what is shown, what remains hidden, and why. Inspired by the natural light and contemplative quiet of Corsicana, Yuan will create new landscape paintings that blend observation with imagination, capturing the local atmosphere and color while continuing her exploration of introspection and perception.
Yuri Yuan (b. 1996, Harbin, China) holds a Visual Arts MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Yuan was a recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship at Columbia University in 2020 and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2019, 2022, and 2024. The artist’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, NY; Make Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, GE; Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK; Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg, VA; Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY; Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL; and International Center for the Arts, Umbria, Italy, among others. Her work is represented in the public collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, and the X Museum, Beijing, China. Yuan was an artist-in-residence at Hercules Art/ Studio Program from 2021 to 2023 and at Silver Art Projects Residency in 2024. Yuan lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.
ORCHID TIERNEY
Poetry, Lyric Essay - Howard, Ohio | Aotearoa, New Zealand - Writing Studio
Mad Ecologies: Mental Illness and the American Poem is a collection of lyric essays on Mad poetry in deviant spaces. The psychogeography of mental health differences can take a myriad of forms: from the eruptive despair caused by prairie madness to the warm feeling of springtime renewal in a hospital therapy garden. Many modernist poets wrote ecopoems to metabolise their emotional turmoil, but how can we responsibly theorise Madness in the time of climate change when popular literary icons, like Amitav Ghosh, have described our environmental irresponsibility as “The Great Derangement”? Mad Ecologies reads ecopoetry by poets with documented mental illness—Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, and Lew Welch, among others—to imagine a crip poetics of refuge where Mad mind flowers in brilliant clinical spaces.
Orchid Tierney is a poet, essayist, and scholar from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of this abattoir is a college (Calamari Archive, 2025) and a year of misreading the wildcats (The Operating System, 2019) as well as several chapbooks, including looking at the Tiny: Mad lichen on the surfaces of reading (Essay Press, 2023), my beatrice (above/ground press, 2020), ocean plastic (BlazeVOX Books, 2019), and blue doors (Belladonna* Press, 2018). Tierney is the co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (2023) and her scholarship has appeared in Venti, SubStance, Jacket2, The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry, Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, and The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics Since 1900. She teaches at Kenyon College and is a senior editor at the Kenyon Review.
BOOKSTORE
Representing books and printed matter by residents, alongside their sources of research, inspiration, and recommendations - two blocks from the 100 West studios. This is where literature first read aloud at Open Studios becomes available between book covers. All sales support this nonprofit residency program.
Open Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays 10a - 4p | 201 N. Commerce St.
