2017

Mary Mattingly

Mary Mattingly is a visual artist. Currently, “Swale” is a floating food forest for New York. In 2015, she completed a two-part sculpture “Pull” for the International Havana Biennial with the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Habana and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Mary Mattingly’s work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Palais de Tokyo. With the U.S. Department of State and Bronx Museum of the Arts she participated in the smARTpower project, traveling to Manila. In 2009 Mattingly founded the Waterpod Project, a barge-based public space and self-sufficient habitat that hosted over 200,000 visitors in New York. In 2014, an artist residency on the water called WetLand launched in Philadelphia. It is being utilized by the University of Pennsylvania’s Environmental Humanities program.

Suzanne Bocanegra and Lili Taylor

Farmhouse/Whorehouse: An Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor

“An illuminating theatrical portrait of the mind of an artist at work.” —New York Times on Bocanegra’s Bodycast

Versatile film and TV actress Lili Taylor (I Shot Andy Warhol, Six Feet Under) stars in Farmhouse/Whorehouse, the third in a series of playful, hybrid performance works by visual artist Suzanne Bocanegra. Part artist lecture, part memoir, and part cultural essay, Farmhouse/Whorehouse looks into the lives of Bocanegra’s grandparents on their small farm in La Grange, Texas, just across the road from the infamous Chicken Ranch—better known as “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” (perhaps the only place to be immortalized by a ZZ Top song, a hit Broadway production, and a film starring Dolly Parton). Through text, song, film, and video, this engaging work will take you on a rambling journey that considers back-to-the-land hippie communes in the 1960s, the contemporary homesteading movement, the invention of the pastoral genre, and the role of the prostitute in art with abundant wit and insight.