RTS is excited to host artist talks by current artist in residence Claudia Cortinez and artist Aspen Mays on Monday, March 26th at 7pm.
Claudia Cortinez is a visual artist working between Buenos Aires and NYC. Her work focuses on the material traces of objects that make up urban and domestic spaces, exploring the relationship between architecture, history, and society, proposing memory as a physical and spatial quality. Through various photographic and sculptural processes she explores how information transfers between surfaces and the transformations that occur through material decomposition. Her work reflects on details within built spaces that construct the identity of a landscape and its inhabitants. Claudia received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA at Yale University. She is the recipient of the Alice Kimball Travel Grant from Yale University (2012), the Blair Dickinson Memorial Grant from Yale University (2013), and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in NYC (2013), among others. She has participated in artist residencies at Mass MoCA (2017), La Ira de Dios (2016), LMCC Swing Space (2013), among others. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US and Latin America.
Aspen Mays was born in 1980 in Asheville, North Carolina and received her MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. She has had solo exhibitions of her work Higher Pictures in New York, at the Center for Ongoing Projects & Research in Columbus, Ohio and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Mays was a 2009-2010 Fulbright Fellow in Santiago, Chile, where she spent time with astrophysicists using the world’s most advanced telescopes to look at the sky. She is currently Assistant Professor at California College of the Arts. Mays lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.