To celebrate the culmination of their six-month residency in the Museum’s Artist Studios, artists Patricia Orpilla, Syd Abady, and MAD Artist Fellow Lipika Bhargava will each speak about their respective practices. Following the talks, visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artists in their studios and see their work created at MAD.

This event is free with registration.

SCHEDULE

• 6:30-7:15 pm: artist talks on Floor 7
• 7:15-8:00 pm: open studios on Floor 6

Prior to the talks, Craft Front & Center: Exploring the Permanent Collection and Jewelry Stories will be open for viewing.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Syd Abady explores the politics and personalities of home spaces through a textiles-based practice. At MAD, she used the slow-moving, domestic technique of needlepoint to reconsider the significance of seemingly mundane public signifiers, such as maps and real estate signs, that dictate both our public and private lives. Abady received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Textiles and Nature, Culture, Sustainability Studies with an emphasis on Urban Studies. She has exhibited throughout the US, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA LA) and Miami Art Week.

Lipika Bhargava is a multi-media artist working across ceramics, painting, textile, and performance. Drawing from her background in Indian classical and contemporary dance, her practice is process-oriented and performative. Bhargava is interested in the overlapping of mediums, rupturing the boundaries between them, and building an interdisciplinary space where one medium can flow into the other. In her recent body of work, clay functions as a map, trace, and evidence of her body in movement. Her art explores notions of sexuality, violence, identity, and the political choreography of the body. Bhargava completed her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design and was recently an AICAD fellow at Pratt Institute. Her work has been featured in Harpers Bazaar, Hindustan Times, Scroll.in, and Cosmopolitan.

Patricia Orpilla creates textiles, prints, and objects informed by her archival research into the psychological and material consequences of migration, circulation, expansion, mechanization, and colonization. Using techniques such as bitmapping, weaving, and woodcut printmaking, Orpilla examines how materials can record narratives not preserved through language, and thus prompt questions about authorship, industry, and preservation. Orpilla received her MFA from Yale School of Art in painting/printmaking. She recently completed a research fellowship at the Beinecke Library researching ephemera such as maps and religious texts concerning nineteenth-century US–Philippines relations. She has recently shown at Jeffrey Deitch, Kiosk Gallery, Front/Space, and Vulpes Bastille. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.