Studio Opening / Washington D.C.: Bacchanalia

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I have lived and worked in many places. Home. A garage. A residency. New York, Washington, St. Louis MO., Los Angeles, Mexico City, Brazil. My computer. But two places have had the most powerful emotional impact—St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, where The Silkscreen Project lived from 1977 to 1987. Tracajá Studio near Union Square, 1987 to 2000. For the last 25 years, I have dispersed my practice across fabrication studios for blown glass and printmaking, and conceptualized works on my computer. The statelessness of my studio allowed me to uncover less tangible mediums and genres such as olfaction, internet art, and public interventions. 

In this moment of fear, fracture, uncertainty–disgust with American politics–I considered going back to Rio de Janeiro. Instead, I chose to rent a large studio in the dense, noisy heart of Times Square, where I will sit inside the chaos. My studio is open. I will keep my archive of 60 years of artworks in this space–a space for gathering, speaking, seeing. I invite all friends, artists, activists, women, and I am open to collective ideas and suggestions. I would love to have you at the opening of my studio, where I am unfolding pages of my Diary of Images and Smells, sharing artworks from my archive, and creating new work.