Ryder Cooley is a multi-media artist and musician based in the NY Hudson River Valley, (US). Weaving together chimeric visions with residue of daily life, her work reveals a terrain of lost dreams and phantom memories. Working with found materials and personal mythologies, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces.
Recent and Upcoming Events
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Albany Center Gallery: "River" exhibit, June 17-July 28. Opening & Performance: July 4 & 18, 5-9pm. 39 Columbia St. Albany, NY, 12207. Tuesday-Saturday 12-5pm
Fall Harbor (musical collaboration with Todd Chandler) CD's available through Blood Onion Records.
Pan American ArtProjects: Scope Hamptons, July 24-27, NY. Miami installation, Sept. 13-Oct. 18. 2450 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL.
Proctors Mainstage Theater: Animalia performance, Sept. 19. 440 State St. Schnectady NY. For more information see "Performance" page
RECENT, PREVIOUS EVENTS:
MASS MoCA: music by Fall Harbor, Dark Dark Dark & the Miss Rockaway Armada. North Adams, MA. April 2008
RPI MFA Performance and Exhibit, "Animalia", Troy, NY, March 2008. Albany Times Union video interview.
Emily Harvey Foundation: music by Fall Harbor & the Pauline Oliveros Brainwave Band, NYC, 2007
Hudson Opera House, musical installation by Fall Harbor, "Twillight Shanties and Aviary Songs", Hudson NY 2007
White Box, NYC: performance of "Blood Deer" in conjunction with Theater of Cruelty exhibit, 2007
Grand Street Community Arts: installation-performance in conjunction with "Vestuary Operatics", site-specific work exhibited in a 19th Century Church curated by Ryder Cooley and Michael Oatman, Albany, NY 2007.
Exit Art: performance for "Trickster Theater", NYC, 2007