Artist Reception

9691|http://www.wildbirdfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/autumn-kiotibird002small-222x300.jpg|medium Autumn Kioti will be creating an ongoing performative installation at WBF, continuing on the theme of work created while artist-in-residence for NYC Audubon at Governors Island. Inspired by tales of the crone/witch Baba Yaga, who according to legend lived in a house on chicken legs, Autumn will paint, nest, and create inside the window on...

10226|http://www.wildbirdfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/christy-rupp-parrots-side-view-frida-182x300.jpg|medium Christy Rupp, an urban eco-artist, has been observing the waste stream and its impact on habitat since the 70’s. In creating her sculptures, she has frequently incorporated materials salvaged from the poisonous waste stream itself– including plastic netting, credit cards, discarded chicken bones and other cast off debris. Confounded by the quantity of plastic used to package...