Kemar Wynter

Tethered between the Antilles and the Five Boroughs, Kemar Wynter leans on the culinary hybridity born from being of these two spaces to find his home amongst the cuisine. The velvety surface and sinuous marks of Kemar's oil pastel-based paperworks are building blocks to a visual Patois with which he articulates the sensorial experiences associated with cookery. Each portion in the studio archives a meal integral to the home—be it the uproarious Friday night dinners of his youth on Carroll Street, or afterschool trips to the chicken spot on Crown and Utica. The intimacy of cookery—the preparation, the service, the scents, tastes, and varying tongues, the heat—be it a gentle kindling or an engulfing furnace—is lovingly imbued into each surface.

Cecil Howell

Artist and landscape architect Cecil Howell's ('21) work is a series of cartographic experiments that lead us to question our assumptions about the borders and boundaries of our built environment.

What I like to do with cartography is try and map things that don’t ever make it on to maps and maybe don't even have real physical boundaries, and see how those distort the ways we think about landscapes. - Cecil Howell

Tom Holmes

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.”

Erik DeLuca

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 .

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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.

Bianca C. Grüger

Düsseldorf, Germany

https://biancagrueger.de/

Rachel Mica Weiss

“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.

Francisco Moreno

Francisco Moreno (2nd Floor 100W 2020)

Linnea Kniaz

Linnea Kniaz ROPE WALKER Podcast Link

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

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.