Meet the Artists: Roger Ferney Cortés and Katherine Sepúlveda

Join us for two Meet the Artist programs and the opening of two new site-specific Sunroom Projects.

Katherine Sepúlveda’s Sunroom installation Halloween House is informed by personal narratives, family archives and Catholic devotional imagery. Considering how the consumption patterns of low-income individuals, many of whom work as domestic laborers in communities such as Riverdale, are scrutinized, this intentionally maximalist Latinx installation of handmade and found imagery and decor inserts a vibrational heritage and historical imprint into the skeleton of an imagined house masquerading as an icon of the American Dream. In the Sun Porch, Roger Ferney Cortés invokes the iconic “paletero” ice cream or popsicle street vendor in his interactive mobile sculpture, Johny Paleta. An homage to the important role of the street vendor culture of immigrant communities in the Bronx and beyond, visitors to Wave Hill are invited to peer into reflective surfaces and cut-out shapes for a playful and interactive experience with refracting faces, fragments of the environment and sunlight in the Sun Porch and on Wave Hill’s grounds.

2–3 PM: Meet the Artists: Join Sunroom Project Space artists Roger Ferney-Cortés and Katherine Sepúlveda in conversation with Curator of Visual Arts Rachel Raphaela Gugelberger. The conversation will focus on the common cultural threads that run through the artist’s distinct site-specific exhibitions, as well as their unique approaches to foregrounding Latinx representation and markers of cultural identity in their respective projects.

3–4 PM: Roger Ferney-Cortés activates his mobile sculpture Johny Paleta on the grounds of Wave Hill, meandering through the paved pathways of the garden, offering an artwork that reflects the beauty of visitors and their communities and serves as an homage to the street vendor culture of immigrant communities in the Bronx and beyond.

Meet the Artist is an ongoing series of conversations and programs designed by exhibiting artists and curatorial team members at Wave Hill. The program provides an opportunity for Wave Hill visitors, the artist’s community and others to learn more about an artist’s creative process and the themes that shape their work.

Registration encouraged but not required; online or by calling 718.540.3200 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.