Rachel Rossin

Our 2019 Hans Hofmann Resident artist Rachel Rossin, a New York–based visual artist working in the media of virtual reality, sculpture, and painting, hosted a Recursive Life Drawing Class in the Hawthorne Barn. This approach focuses on drawing the body as it feels, not as it looks. The workshop began with an informal overview of deep learning and recursive neural networks. Participants brought their own drawing materials, and Rossin set a timer for each "pose," reading prompts and giving directions.

Rachel Rossin’s primary area of interest is the infrastructure of technology and its impact on contemporary consciousness. A programmer and researcher, Rossin's most recent works employ neural networks and artificial intelligence to examine human datasets. Her work has been shown at numerous galleries and museums around the world and at the Sundance Film Festival. Rossin was the recipient of a Fellowship in Virtual Reality Research and Development from the New Museum’s incubator. She is a subject in National Geographic's Genius series on Contemporary Artists.

Pete Hocking

Pete Hocking is a visual artist and writer based in Provincetown, MA. His work is concerned with personal narrative, place, poetics, and political consciousness. Pete will spend his residency in the Barn working on a series of new works based on walks that he has taken this spring on the Atlantic side of the Outer Cape—primarily in Provincetown and Truro, which he will discuss and share at his Open Studio.

His other preoccupations include Progressive Education and arts pedagogy; American Studies; Queer Theory; ecology and sustainable systems; the public engagement of artists; and documentary practice. He teaches at Goddard College in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program and in the Division of Liberal Arts at Rhode Island School of Design.  Previously he was director of Rhode Island School of Design's Office of Public Engagement (2007-2011), and Associate Dean of the College and Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1988-2005). He's a founding board chair of the Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the arts and creative economy.  He's represented by Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown, MA. 

Lyle Ashton Harris

Resident Artist Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic. During his Twenty Summers residency, he plans to work on a large-scale collage and portraits.

Lyle Ashton Harris’s work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has been exhibited internationally in the Venice Biennale, the Bienal de São Paulo, and most recently at the Centre Pompidou in Parisl. He has been a recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and of a Guggenheim Fellowship. Harris’s multimedia installation Once (Now) Again was included in the 78th Whitney Biennial, and his three-channel video work Ektachrome Archives (New York Mix) is in the Whitney’s permanent collection. In 2017 Aperture published his book Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs. Harris is an associate professor of Art at New York University. He is represented by Salon 94.

Megan Hinton

Local resident artist Megan Hinton is an abstract painter and visual artist based on Cape Cod.  Hinton will give an artist talk to present and discuss the work she creates during her time in the Barn, to be followed by an audience Q&A and then an evening of music and live projections. During her residency, Hinton plans to paint interior and exterior views of the Hawthorne Barn, aiming to capture the subtleties and vignettes that give the place its character. Through nocturnal projections of her work that incorporate historical photographic references, she hopes to use painting as a way of joining past and contemporary experiences of the Hawthorne Barn and its legacy.

Megan Hinton, a published art writer, educator, and avid traveler, has been exhibiting her work in New England and beyond for over fifteen years. Currently an MFA candidate at Mills College in Oakland, California, she also holds degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New York University. Megan has been awarded numerous artist residencies in the United States, France, and Belgium, as well as three local Massachusetts Cultural Council grants. Her paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Artists Association of Nantucket.

Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick

Resident artists Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick are a collaborative team of artists who work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art, specializing in fictitious histories set in the past or future. The duo plan to use their time in the Barn to commence work on a mural photograph (8ft x 24ft) that will be the centerpiece of their show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in Summer 2020. The imagery will be loosely based on James Ensor’s “Christ’s Entry into Brussels” from 1889. Over the course of the residency and subsequent weeks, they plan to go into the dunes to photograph a crowd of carnivalesque characters flooding over the sands toward Provincetown. At their Open Studio, Kahn and Selesnick will present and discuss photographs, costumes, and source materials that will be on display in the Hawthorne Barn.

Kahn & Selesnick have participated in exhibitions worldwide and have work in over 20 collections, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. In addition, they have published 3 books with Aperture Press, Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt, and Apollo Prophecies. Their latest book 100 Views of the Drowning World was released in 2017 by Candela Books.