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Meet the Artists: Monica Duncan, Jennifer Tobias and SuRan Song

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Glyndor Gallery and Glyndor Terrace Garden
09 Su Ran Song Pushpam Veda Mariposa Mudra Dvi
SuRan Song, Detail of "Pushpam Veda Chamomile Mandalatransmit!", 2014, an evening interactive sidewalk installation of projected mandalas in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY. Courtesy of the artist.

Join us for Meet the Artists programming with Monica Duncan, Jennifer Tobias and SuRan Song and William M. Weis III, organized as part of the 2025 Sunroom Project Space season. This afternoon program will include conversations with the artists, hands-on workshops, and movement. 

12PM  
On the Glyndor Terrace Garden, SuRan Song and William William M. Weis III will activate their sculpture You’re Soaking in It! with a workshop exploring civic trust, Justice Sotomayor’s recognition of the right to sleep in public, and the Orphic philosophy of Parmenides. Inspired by their sculpture and the restored Glyndor Garden Terrace fountain, visitors are invited to create hand-sized diptychs from post-consumer packaging, inscribed with a tribute to civic trust, dreams, Parmenides, Justice Sotomayor, Glyndor Terrace Garden, or the fountain’s sounds. 

1:15 PM  
Join artist Jennifer Tobias for a conversation about her Sun Porch installation Fish Tank and a Bird Feeder Workshop, based on the corrugated cardboard used in her installation. Employing this material as an analog to steel body armor and the bony armor of prehistoric fish, participants will create simple bird house feeders out of cardboard—a kind of armor for birds. Materials include corrugated cardboard, sticks, and garden twine gathered at Wave Hill, along with nut butter and bird seed. This workshop is open to all ages and ranges of abilities. 

2:30 PM  
Join artist Monica Duncan in her Sunroom exhibition Breathing as a stone for Plant Contouring Workshop: Embodying Plants through Movement. Visitors will spend time observing the flora of Wave Hill through contour line drawings and using these drawings as maps for movement. Participants will be asked to share their scores, embody plant forms, and create collective plant choreographies in the garden. 

Meet the Artist is an ongoing series of conversations between exhibiting artists, the curatorial team, and sometimes invited guests at Wave Hill. As part of the Sunroom Project Space, this program is designed collaboratively with the artists and takes various forms. Meet the Artist offers visitors, the artist's community, and others an opportunity to gain insight into the artist's creative process and the themes present in their work

Registration encouraged but not required, online or by calling 718.549.3200 x251.

Glyndor Gallery is wheelchair-accessible. There is an accessible, ground-level entrance at the front of the building with an elevator that provides access to the gallery level. The Sunroom Project Space can be accessed with an ADA-compliant ramp. The restroom on the gallery level is all-gender and ADA-compliant. The Glyndor Terrace Garden is accessible via a bluestone path that begins south of the Glyndor House entrance and continues along its western perimeter towards an ADA-compliant ramp located at the Glyndor Terrace Garden’s north entrance. 

  • SuRan Song

    Suran song credit anastasia song

    SuRan Song

    SuRan Song is a Riverdale, Bronx-based artist of Korean and Greek descent. Her multidisciplinary performance practice explores how justice relates to love, the ancient roots of Greek hospitality, Sanskrit, audience engagement and accessibility, among other themes. Inspired by post-punk songwriters and Early Dada artists, she also leads a performance art rock band that has toured widely. Song’s work has been featured in exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art and Queens Museum, both in NY, and the Villa Terrace Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI. She earned an MFA in Sculpture from Parsons School of Design, NY. 

    Photo: Anastasia Song

  • Monica Duncan

    Monica duncan credit dean erdmann

    Monica Duncan

    Monica Duncan is a Riverdale, Bronx-based video and performance artist whose time-based work investigates sensory perceptions, queer potentiality, and relationality to our more-than human world. Her video and performance work has been presented at Hebbel am Ufer HAU1, Berlin; Franfurt Lab, zietraumexit, Mannheim and ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, all in Germany; Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA; Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival, Malaysia; Athens International Film + Video Festival, Greece; Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL; Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI; and The Kitchen and Hallwalls Buffalo, both in New York. Duncan has been an artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center, Institute for Electronic Arts, Binghampton; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, all in NY; PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany and Scena Robocza, Poznań, Poland, among others. She earned a BFA from the NYSCC School of Art and Design at Alfred University, NY; anMFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego; and an MA in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany. Learn more about the artist at monicaduncan.net. 

    Photo: Dean Erdmann

  • Jennifer Tobias

    Jennifer tobias

    Jennifer Tobias

    Jennifer Tobias is a scholar, artist and illustrator based in New York City. Her practice is driven by a curiosity and love of research, making and communicating. Tobias’ visual art and illustration have been featured at Cullman Education Center, Museum of Modern Art and Cooper Union, both in New York, and in Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers (Princeton Architectural Press), Health Design Thinking (Smithsonian) and Design is Storytelling (D.A.P.), among others. She earned a BFA from Cooper Union, NY; and MLS from Rutgers University, NJ; and a Ph.D. in Art History from City University of New York Graduate Program. 

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