Artist in Residence - May/June 2025
Stephanie Spindler, Ph.D.
Stephanie Spindler is an international artist who relocated back to Colorado after living sixteen years abroad in the United Kingdom. She recently completed her practice-based Ph.D. at Chelsea College of Art. Currently, she teaches at UNC in the School of Art and Design and lives in Fort Collins. Her residency at Riachuelo will embark on a new investigation and body of work themed around Making Things in the Dark. This research embodies uncertainty and intimacy, exploring desire, fear, and hope. You can learn more about her and see her work at www.spindlerart.com.
AND, YOU — Film Shoot - February 2025
Henri Jones
Henri Jones is a 22-year-old visual artist and storyteller living in Detroit, MI. Specializing in Writing and Directing, his work enters physical and sensual realms in order to discover the self through physical objects and images.
In 2024, Henri created his first narrative short, “Shepherds Club” which was screened at film festivals in Grand Rapids, MI, Chicago, and Germany. While Henri enjoys writing and directing, he also explores experimental storytelling, photography, and music video creation. His work can often be identified for the interesting use of color, extreme contrast, and art direction.
For all of the intelligence, empathy, and power that human beings can exhibit, we still struggle everyday with sexuality and forming intimate relationships. “And, You” explores how vulnerability forces us to repress opposing parts of our psyche, creating a shadow that, if not reconciled in the self, becomes projected onto others.
Artist in Residence - October 2024
Ashley Benton
Ashley is a mixed media artist living in Savanah, GA. She has been exhibiting her work for more than twenty years across the county and beyond. After graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design she followed her love of big mountains, clear rivers and blue skies to Colorado . There she continued to make art, raise a son, teach art, open a yoga studio, ride horses and travel to juried art shows. In 2014, Ashley moved home to Georgia and began focusing on gallery representation and small shops and boutiques. Currently she is represented by the Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, TX and the Ivy Brown Gallery, NYC.
Ashley’s work is based on the emotional experience of living a life.She attempts to unveil the marvelous in the everyday, create a sense of wonder, engage her mind and open a dialogue with the viewer. The work is never an exact representation much like a writer of fiction. The work hovers in the in-between —Less than Reality More than a Dream…