Coco Villa | November 2023

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We are thrilled to announce that Coco Villa will be our artist in residency for the month of November 2023! Tightly wound to identity, Coco Villa leads a multidisciplinary art-research practice investigating relations between body and object. Their work spans across disciplines of dance, photography, fashion design, installation, and film. Villa utilizes material and movement languages to tell autobiographical stories, explore human intimacy and spirituality, and build familial archives through self-portraiture. Driven by historical and scientific discovery, Villa thrives in the dance studio, darkroom, dye kitchen, design lab, film set and library, playfully experimenting and creating by hand.

Image by Antonia Esposito  @espositoni_

Spyrodon: Tara Foley and Alex Theodoropulos | October 23- November 3, 2023

Spyrodon is a sound and visual project: a collaborative entity between husband-and-wife artist team Alex Theodoropulos and Tara Foley.

Tara Foley is an artist, a maker of sounds, a museum educator, gallery worker and a sometimes curator. She is currently living and working in Hudson, NY. Originally from NYC, but spending many years living in California, both in San Francisco and L.A, Tara received her MFA from CalArts in 2013. Much of her art practice has focused on social practice, teaching herself how to make something and sharing that knowledge with a variety of communities over the years, remediating capitalism one handmade item at a time. Her ongoing series “Church of A.I,” started in 2017 where she makes paintings composed of encoded messages involving ethics and the human condition. She has a practice with her partner Alex Theodoropulos called Spyrodon where they collaborate on sounds and visuals. For the residency, Tara will work on a variety of projects related to Spyrodon, from visuals, to clothing, to new sounds.

Alex Theodoropulos is a visual artist and songwriter who has always been drawn to the interaction between visual art and music.  Immersed in the garage/psych rock scene in San Francisco at the start of the 2000’s, Alex has produced animations and music videos for bands coming from the genre, including Thee Oh Sees and Sean Lennon.  Currently, Alex works as an illustrator of album covers and music posters for live shows. As a collaborator with many bands and music projects on both coasts, his current project is called Spyrodon, which is a sound and visual project he shares with Tara Foley. At the residency Alex will work on new songs, blending Tara’s voice and a variety of instruments that will reflect the visual creations Tara will be working on.

Lindsay Mercer | October 2-21, 2023

Lindsay Mercer sews, prints, and builds small quiet homes. Fabric safekept by friends and reclaimed from dumpsters and mud puddles becomes the walls and windowsills that frame delicate broken glass and greased paper windows. Glass is broken, but mended as well as needle and thread can manage. Paper is toughened by drenching it in grease until the opaque becomes a murky translucent glow. They build homes of empathy, both fragile and resilient.

Dedicated to the art of oral histories and home building, Lindsay is in the continual process of learning what it means to be a country queer in the world today.

Katt Naz | September 17-30, 2023

Katerine Nazareth Viloria Monagas better known as Katt Naz was born in 1989 in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in Miami Beach since she was two. She’s now become an emerging Visual Artist using her work to express emotion, self reflection, pride, intuition, mysticism, mother nature and climate change awareness. When creating anything, Katt likes to push boundaries while keeping a minimal yet elevated essence and incorporating up-cycled materials at every chance she gets. In 2018 her work was exhibited at the AFAS Center for the Arts building in Winston-Salem, NC and at the Pancakes & Booze group show in Little Haiti, Miami. Currently she’s part of a photography exhibit called “This Skin I’m In” which was shown at Revolve Gallery in Asheville, NC July-August 2022 and currently traveling to two other cities in the south during October 2022. This group show was curated to support and amplify the voices of the LGBTQIA+ artist community. Before making Asheville, NC her new home base in 2022, Katt spent 4 years immersing herself in Miami’s local art community and assisted various mural and installation artist’s in productions all over Wynwood and other parts of Miami. While gaining experience hands on in the field, she realized how powerful public art can be for the community and city. She’s now starting her new journey creating her own public experiences starting with her first installation called “Haus Of Hues”, an installation that is a collaboration with nature made to celebrate all colors of the spectrum. This installation was a part of the city of Asheville and Buncombe county’s new project “Art In The Heart” during the month of September 2022 in Pack Square Park. Her ultimate life goal is to one day own land where she can build a home for her family and an artist residency surrounded by nature that artists can go to relax, learn sustainable gardening and use up-cycled materials in creative ways.

Brett Naucke | September 6-12, 2023

Brett William Naucke (b. 1985) is an American experimental composer and visual artist from Chicago, IL currently based in Asheville, NC. His work has been consistently focused on marrying an ever-evolving practice of synthesis to visual and conceptual narratives for both recording and live performance. In addition to releasing music on a wide variety of acclaimed international labels, Naucke has provided the original scores for several films, sound design for interactive gaming, and presented many works for multichannel audio and video installations.

His new work. “Room Without Time” was a living installation for multichannel audio and visual elements built over the month of November 2022 at The Residency at 82. Public viewings were held on November 30th, December 1st, and 2nd, to much acclaim.

Links:

www.bnaucke.com

https://brettnaucke.bandcamp.com/

IG @brettnaucke

Chris Hamilton | August 2023

Christopher Hamilton is a musician and sound artist from Asheville, NC, fascinated and delighted by all things auditory. Recent work in sound design and sound sculpture has focused on unique spatial experiences of sonic information and unique sonic information in space, including infrasonic waves, ultrasonic layers, and lo-fi multichannel audio configurations using alarm clock radios. For the current project, the focus is on manipulation of large-scale multichannel audio. It is always a plus if there can be audience participation!

Rachel Hanson | July 2023

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Rachel Hanson has just announced her upcoming writing salon on July 29 at 4pm! Join us at 821 Haywood Road! Click here for more information.

In her literary fiction Rachel Hanson explores, from an ecofeminist perspective, the trends in American history to bridle our land and rivers. She ponders the confluence of the human and natural world, often setting her work in the American Southwest and rural Appalachia. Her protagonists reveal to the reader conflicting ideas on the environment—land and rivers, and also wildlife, specifically predatory animals—as they navigate their place in the natural environment, while also struggling to find authenticity in others and themselves, hoping to alter the disconnect they feel from the world. Her narrative nonfiction work tends to analyze the complications of existing in a violent world as much as it explores formal and experimental narrative techniques by examining the voids and chaos of her own fragmented recollections, made apparent in some pieces by the staccato rhythm and repetition of language, and in others through point of view changes, shifts in time, and the resistance of fleshed out exposition. What drives her to write in these specific veins is her hope that awareness might create change, and the desire to find beauty in the face of ugliness.

Join us for Rachel’s event:

Salon: The Stories We Want to Tell and How to Begin | July 29, 2023 at 4pm

Wyatt Pottorff | May / June 2023

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Wyatt James Jackson Pottorff grew up in the middle of nowhere, (aka Deming), New Mexico. Art has always been a constant source of passion and relief for Wyatt, who spent his early years doodling, painting, climbing on roofs and exploring derelict buildings and the desert with friends. He is a recent graduate of the University of New Mexico’s studio art program, and has exhibited in several galleries including the Shockboxx Gallery in LA and Site Santa Fe in Santa Fe, NM. Currently he lives and works in Asheville, North Carolina.

Andrew Weathers | April / May 2023

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Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. Weathers studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

Big Beautiful Crankie Project | Feb/Mar 2023

This troupe of artists worked on a storytelling projects that they wanted to share. They created a series of “crankies,” which are boxes that hold a scroll of drawings or paintings that move across the “screen” to help tell their story. During their residency, they created the story, painted the scrolls, wrote the songs, and designed the performance. It was a spectacular show!