Ricki Dwyer (USA) is an artist from the San Francisco Bay Area, living in Brooklyn. His practice considers the intersections of material, industry, and the somatic. This research addresses weaving and craft in both theory and practice. Dwyer is currently a Bronx Museum AIM Fellow and teaches with the Parsons School of Design. He received his undergraduate degree in Fiber Arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA in Studio Practice from UC Berkeley.
Dwyer will talk about how weaving embodies the idea of world’s creation, many individual threads becoming a stronger whole, and the cultural issue of reducing this process to the binary as well as how his work in abstraction is towards a somatic reckoning with our material surroundings.