Marie Lorenz will speak about her artistic practice, focusing on her use of waterways as social spaces. She will present projects like The Tide and Current Taxi, Newton Odyssey, and Graybelt which combine performance, sculpture, and environmental study to explore connections between natural systems and human activity.
Bio: Marie Lorenz is a visual artist based in New York City. In her ongoing project, The Tide and Current Taxi, Lorenz navigates with participants through New York waterways in boats she designs and builds, using tidal currents for propulsion. Recent solo exhibitions include Confluence at the Center for Contemporary Art in Montbéliard, France, Drift Tilt at Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, and Waterways at the Susanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery at Bennington College in Vermont. Lorenz's work has been featured in important group exhibitions including Shifting Shorelines at Columba University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York, Women Reframe the American Landscape at the Thomas Cole Museum in Catskill, New York, and the Woodson Art Museum in New Britton, Connecticut, and Perpetual Screw at International Objects in Brooklyn, New York. Lorenz was recently awarded Creative Capital and National Endowment for the Arts grants for Newton Odyssey, a collaborative opera performed along Newtown Creek in New York City. She holds a B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Yale.