2024 Resident Artists
Lorena Mal and Pablo Rasgado, 2024
Lorena’s work combines many different media including sound, video, sculpture, photography and performance. Recent exhibitions of her work include Mexico City, New York, Charlotte, NC, Venice, Italy, Abu Dhabi and Berlin. Find out more about Lorena at her website.
Pablo reconfigures the materials of everyday life, in particular walls, to create new abstractions. He has also exhibited widely including recent shows in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, and Miami. You can find out more about Pablo at his website.
Elana Herzog, 2024
Elana Herzog has exhibited extensively, both in the United States and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the New Jersey Center for the Arts, the University of Kentucky Art Museum, the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center in Tarrytown, NY, and the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. You can find out more about Elana at her website.
Public Project
To celebrate our 5th full season, Reach Projects is collaborating with the Blue Hill Public Library and Word festival on a collaborative public project called Search Engine. At 10pm on Friday, July 26th, the Blue Hill Public Library will open its doors to a group of local residents wearing headlamps and provided with a random search term. Their mission is to search the library and gather information, photos or any other inspiration they can use to create a work of art in any medium they choose, including but not limited to visual art, writing, music, or film. After a few weeks, documentation of the artwork will be collected and on Friday, August 16th, the results will be shown as a video on the facade of the Library. We invite everyone who wants to participate or learn more to email us at reachprojects207@gmail.com.
Recent Resident Artists
Amanda Browder, 2023
Born in Missoula, Montana, Amanda currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has produced more than 25 large-scale fabric installations all around the world. Amplifying multiple voices, she collaborates with local community groups and sources her textiles from local donations. While at Reach Projects, Amanda created In Times We Gather, a large scale fabric installation presented on the First Congregational Church in Blue Hill.
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, 2023
Jennifer and Kevin are media artists whose work extends from film and video to installation and generative software. Their work often seeks to situate new technologies within our culture, using contemporary tools and questioning their impact both on the individual and on the collective culture. While at Reach They prepared work for Machine Organic to be shown at expanded Art in Berlin, Fall 2023.
Lina Puerte and Alexis Duque, 2023
Lina is a New York-based artist whose work builds on her Columbian-American heritage. Her sculpture, tapestries, installations and handmade paper paintings explore the relationship between nature and the human-made, as well as themes including indigenous cultures, agricultural systems, and the legacy of colonialism. Alexis was born in Medellin, Columbia, and currently works and lives in New York. His work includes incredibly intricate drawings and paintings that explore consumerism, urbanization and the lives of migrant workers.
Eve Sussman and Simon Lee 2019, 2022
Working across multiple media and disciplines, internationally recognized artists Eve Sussman and Simon Lee continued to develop their socially engaging performance work through hours of conversations and interviews with local residents, along with experiments in public spaces. Eve and Simon returned to Reach in August of 2022 to work on a new performance that will be presented in Pamplona, Spain.
By both going out into the towns of Blue Hill and Brooklin and inviting people we met into the studio, we came up with numerous methods to grow our performance piece.The residency at Reach Projects gave us a great opportunity to experiment with a public theatrical intervention in a small community, taking it far from the usual context of the art world.
—Eve Sussman and Simon Lee
Brian Knepp / Natalie Andrew 2019
Typically, Brian Knep and Natalie Andrew work independently with very different practices. Natalie, who while at Reach was simultaneously an artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park, works with ceramics and living organisms including slime molds. Brian regularly makes large-scale, interactive installations for museums across the country and was the first artist-in-residence at the Harvard Medical School. They used their time at Reach Projects to work together on a new collaboration that will bring together the ceramics and video technology. More information about Natalie can be found here. More information about Brian can be found here.
Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis 2021
While in residence, Lewis and Clayton worked on a permanent public artwork for their hometown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For Darkhouse Lighthouse, the artists have taken a burned out row house in the Troy Hill neighborhood and transformed it into a working lighthouse. More information about Lenka and Phillip can be found here.
Our time with Reach Projects could not have come at a better moment. Immersing ourselves into coastal culture while searching for marine artifacts was a hugely inspiring experience directly related to our current ongoing project Darkhouse Lighthouse. We were able to acquire unique materials from Blue Hill and surrounding areas, and then relocate them back to our studio, where they will soon become a part of a permanent installation. The residency provided a freedom from our everyday lives and a perfect break from routine. We reflect on Blue Hill, Maine fondly, and hope to return again.
—Phillip Andrew Lewis and Lenka Clayton
Saya Woolfalk 2021
During her time in Blue Hill, Saya prepared for her exhibition at The Newark Museum of Art. The show, entitled Saya Woolfalk, Tumbling into Landscape runs through Summer 2023. Born in Japan, Saya is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions. She has exhibited throughout the world, and her work is held by the Whitney Museum in New York and the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City among many other institutions.
More information about Saya can be found here.
Michael Waugh 2021
Michael is a New York-based artist known for his meticulously rendered drawings using micrography, employing tiny, handwritten words to form the image. Waugh often incorporates whole texts such as Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and bureaucratic documents such as the Mueller Report. Michael gave an introduction to his work and opened his studio to the public on August 22nd. At that time, local residents were able to see his process and examine the wooden boat and oars that he had made several years ago while in residence at the Wooden Boat School, the surface of which is completely covered with his tiny handwritten text. More information about Michael can be found here.
Marina Zurkow 2022
Zurkow is a media artist focused on near-impossible nature and culture intersections, researching “wicked problems” like invasive species, superfund sites, and petroleum interdependence. She has used life science, bio materials, animation, dinners, and software technologies to foster intimate connections between people and non-human agents. During her residency, she hosted a performance of A Liquid Wanting on Naskeag Beach. More information about Marina can be found here.
Maria Calandra / Erik den Breejen 2022
While Erik and Maria approach painting from very different perspectives, as an artist couple, their work has very interesting points of confluence. They were thrilled to take full advantage of the spectacular natural environment of the Blue Hill Peninsula. While in residence, the artists prepared work for a new exhibition at Turn Gallery in New York, and showed their work in Blue Hill at the Cynthia Winings Gallery. More information about Maria can be found here. More information about Erik can be found here.