The Parrish Art Museum features speakers based on the East End giving rapid-fire presentations about living creatively at PechaKucha Night Hamptons, Vol. 34, on Friday, October 1 at 6 PM. The speakers, who will show 20 images for 20 seconds in compelling six-minute and 40-second long presentations, include artists Meghan Boody, Melora Griffis, Adam Lowenbein, Scott McIntire, David Rankin, and Lorena Salcedo-Watson; recording engineer Cynthia Daniels, and photographer Tom Kochie. PechaKucha will be presented in person and livestreamed.
Artist Meghan Boody tells stories about the process of transformation. In her photographs, sculptures, and performances, she crafts disruptive tales, inviting viewers to explore the outer reaches of personal possibility.
Cynthia Daniels is a recording engineer, record producer, and owner of MonkMusic Studios in East Hampton, providing services for films, books, and podcasts. Clients include Beyonce, Chaka Khan, Jay Z, Paul McCartney, Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Scarlett Johanssen, Sara Jessica Parker, major networks, Paramount, Disney and Universal.
Melora Griffis, based on New York and Shelter Island, focuses her artistic practice on painting. She attended RISD and The Santa Monica College of Design, Art, & Architecture, and earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Tom Kochie is a freelance photographer and artist working primarily in the Hamptons since the 1990s. In addition to his fine art photography, Kochie shoots music, dance, social and art events for various publications, theatre companies, and cultural institutions including The Watermill Center and the Parrish.
Adam Lowenbein is an artist who lives and works on the East End and Fort Lauderdale. He uses color and humor in his paintings to blur the line between his observed surroundings and his inner observations and reveries.
Scott McIntire, currently a Greenport, Long Island resident, built his career in Oregon as an advertising art director and fine artist, showing in regional galleries and the Portland Art Museum. His paintings of exotic flora and posters for events and organizations have been shown nationwide
David Rankin OAM is an Australian, New York based artist. He has exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, and Beijing with over 100 exhibitions. He works predominantly in oil painting and acrylic on canvas, but also works with paper, prints, sculpture, and ceramics.
The imagery of artist/printmaker Lorena Salcedo-Watson reveals a fascination with anatomy, botany, and entomology. Her background as a collaborative printmaker at U.L.A.E inspired her teaching at Cooper Union and Stony Brook Un, and her establishing the non-profit Studio at Gallery North in Setauket.
Visit parrishart.org to register.