{"id":47717,"date":"2023-11-10T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=47717"},"modified":"2024-07-01T07:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T12:56:50","slug":"heidi-howard-esteban-cabeza-de-baca-liz-phillips-light-from-water-wave-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2023\/11\/10\/heidi-howard-esteban-cabeza-de-baca-liz-phillips-light-from-water-wave-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"~HEIDI HOWARD, ESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA & LIZ PHILLIPS\/ ‘LIGHT FROM WATER’ \/ WAVE HILL"},"content":{"rendered":"

here’s a really beautiful . . day trip, with an intimate sense of NYC social history, looking down upon the mighty Hudson River – from a cliff !!
\nhistoric architecture, and all.
\nespecially now, with all the many trees – turning colors.<\/p>\n

‘Light from Water’ . . . runs thru SUNDAY, NOV 26th.<\/strong>
\nWAVE HILL<\/a>, 4900 Independence Avenue, BRONX, NY 10471<\/p>\n

MORE PHOTOS – FROM THE INSTALLATION \/ ALL PHOTOS by NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n

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\nLIZ PHILLIPS, center, with a peak of her interactive ‘sound \/ water table’ installation – on the floor.
\na painting by ESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA, ‘Rock Alcove Water Garden’, 2023 – is on the back wall.
\n“For the past 50 years, pioneering, multimedia artist LIZ PHILLIPS has created responsive<\/strong>environments that use new technologies to sense<\/strong> wind, plants, light, fish, audience, dance moves, water and food. In Phillips’ elastic time-space constructs, sound<\/strong> is often the primary descriptive<\/strong> material.’
\n~Wave Hill exhibition booklet<\/p>\n

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\nLIZ PHILLIPS, ‘Wave Hill Waves’, Wavetable, 2023.
\nAluminum table, Clark transducer, computer amplifier, electronics and cables.
\n12 x 42 x 54 in.<\/p>\n

note: ‘Wave Hill Waves’ Wavetable . . was originally presented as a site-specific <\/strong> installation for Sensory Overload<\/em> at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2008, and has been reimagined for Wave Hill in 2023.<\/p>\n

the finite square of shallow water reflects & moves to the surroundings, and mostly random action, and sound of people walking by, thereby interacting with the audience. if you look closely in the photo – about 2\/3 up, most easily apparent in the man’s reflection \/ you can<\/strong> see the start of a ‘zipper’ of wave within the water itself, which comes and goes, and grows larger, and then fades away – as if on its own. there’s obviously some kind of mechanism – within the (rigid) floor sculpture’s base. the mystery – is a big part of the whole.<\/p>\n

~”On exhibit in ‘Light from Water’, is Phillips’ Wave Hill Waves<\/em>, originally from 2008 and reimagined for Wave Hill in 2023. The artist often uses water as a material in her installations, and since 1988, she has created “Wavetables” that respond to ambient sound and\/or motion. Various Chladni figures <\/strong> — nodal patterns <\/strong> that emerge on the water’s surface as the resonant<\/strong> table receives low frequency sounds – are based on 18th-century German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni’s techniques for visualizing <\/strong> sound.”
\n~Wave Hill exhibition booklet <\/p>\n

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\nhand-made vessels . . . hide the wiring, and amplifier, which ‘move’ the water. <\/p>\n

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\nat first glance, from across the room, as I entered the room, all I could think of was buried, shipwrecked pirate treasure !! on closer inspection, how fun to find these worn & ancient looking, large, hand-made one-of-a-kind pots – contain technological . . . ‘gold’. <\/p>\n

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\nHEIDI HOWARD, hand-coiled clay vessel.
\nthis clay ‘basket’ even shimmered, as if with gold specks flying off a sunken treasure of coins.<\/p>\n

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\nESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA & HEIDI HOWARD collaboration \/ bronze vessel, 2023.
\nwhich holds the amplifier.
\nthis one seemed like some ancient marine serpentine, that had passed through on a ‘food’ procuring trip, and was struck dead for eternity, adding a whole other, ‘imaginative’ inter-active narrative \/ to the sound work.
\na conscious, or unconscious (?) signifier, re the overall creative wisdom of the ancients ‘theme’ of the exhibit, reminding us that predatory, survival impulses – are primal. <\/p>\n

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\nin the same room, you will find a painting by ESTEBAN CABEZA de BACA ‘Sunflowers’, 2023.
\nacrylic on canvas \/ 60 x 32 in.
\nit seems both radiant, sunny. and warm-hearted, but like many works here, also: ancient, wise and mysterious.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nas you step back out on the wide lawns, a provocative, ritualistic, even primitive sculpture awaits you.
\nESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA, in collaboration with HEIDI HOWARD, ‘Host’, 2022.
\nBronze, with native plants \/ 72 x 144 in.
\nnote: “this bronze sculpture was first exhibited at the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas. It features two figures – or perhaps two halves of one being – that are connected to each other, and to the earth. The sculpture incorporates native plants that represent a return to our origins and reflect on how the piece was created; its materials (including metal, soil, live plants) are derived from the ground. ‘Host’ proposes <\/strong> an alternative narrative<\/strong> for the future of life<\/strong> on this planet. In a precarious<\/strong> time, the artists advocate for supporting plant life and improving <\/strong> our relationship to the land for survival.”
\n~Wave Hill <\/p>\n

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\n‘Host’
\nfrom straight-on, the figures line-up, in a great ‘bonding’ – with what appears to me, to be the (larger) male figure \/ defining, protecting, holding the ground, and yet . . reaching forward \/ looking outward. <\/p>\n

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\nLIZ PHILLIPS and HEIDI HOWARD. <\/p>\n

‘Light from Water’ was organized by GABRIEL DE GUZMAN, Director of Arts and Chief Curator, along with RAPHAELA GUGELBERGER, Curator of Visual Arts, Wave Hill.<\/p>\n

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\nLIZ PHILLIPS and HEIDI HOWARD, beside the smaller half of the earthy bronze sculpture, which I feel represents the quiet, but all-feeling, inward intuitive woman . .
\nin this ancient bonded cycle \/ the half that holds it all together from within .
\nLiz Phillips and Heidi Howard, are mother and daughter artists who now often collaborate, more as artistic community, than specifically as family. <\/p>\n

note: the Wave Hill horticultural team, interacted so intuitively with the outdoor sculpture \/ with beautiful, yet quiet, (as opposed to super ‘showy’), definitely meaningful plantings, and placements of flowers, and vines and such, throughout the exhibit’s almost four month time span.<\/p>\n

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\nESTEBAN CABEZA DE BACA, in collaboration with HEIDI HOWARD,
\na life size, bronze 2 figure sculpture, they call: ‘Host’.
\nas in, welcome . . to our thoughts, welcome to the rituals of the ancients who came before us \/ the world is<\/strong> our host – we are<\/strong> the guests of this earth.
\nPlease, try to do right \/ as you discover your path.<\/p>\n

this ‘time-evoking’ sculpture – is a ‘creation’ myth \/ a yin yang bonding.
\nfor sure this ‘half’, represents the ancient female . . intuit.
\nso deep with knowledge and feeling, as to have no boundary around her head, as she looks inward and outward, at the same time.<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, Wave Hill, Sept 17, 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

here’s a really beautiful . . day trip, with an intimate sense of NYC social history, looking down upon the mighty Hudson River – from a cliff !! historic architecture, and all. especially now, with all the many trees – turning colors. ‘Light from Water’ . . . runs thru SUNDAY, NOV 26th. WAVE HILL, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47717"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48024,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47717\/revisions\/48024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}