Tickets General Ticket: $10 Member Ticket: $5 RESERVE TICKETS NOW! Join us as we welcome Lucy Raven and Alan Ruiz, two artists at the forefront of new ideas that examine time, place, space, and who explore our human experience in the landscape and community. With a special introduction by Humberto Moro, Deputy Director of Program at Dia Art Foundation, this discussion celebrates the concurrent opening of two shows that explore evolution over time: This Land: Considering the American Landscape at The Church (opening June 21, 2026) and De sol a sol at Dia Bridgehampton (opening June 26, 2026), Raven and Ruiz will discuss their respective work before exploring the intersections between the two. Following the discussion there will be a Q&A led by This Land exhibition curators Donna De Salvo and Seph Rodney that will then open to questions from the audience. Raven, whose work Deposition, Dam Breach, 21 will be on view at The Church this summer, examines forces of pressure, industry, and material transformations that mark western American landscape. In the Depositions, Raven modelled a series of dam breaks, setting up container-scale breaches of earthen dams with temporary reservoirs whose fluctuating cycles of pressure and release are registered against their silk substrates, demonstrating how the endurance of natural materials in the fluctuating cycles of pressure and release literally turn “land into landscape.” Responding to the prompt ‘What is the American landscape?’ the curators of This Land have reflected deeply as we enter the nation’s 250th anniversary, conceiving a transhistorical exhibition that explores artistic responses to the American landscape both at its inception and today. Raven’s inclusion reflects a contemporary consideration of the natural landscape's formation, process, and materials, and the social footprint of industry that transforms it. Throughout his research-driven practice, Alan Ruiz critically examines built environments—industrial, institutional, and bureaucratic spaces’ physical infrastructures as well the social relations that shape them—drawing attention to their political, aesthetic, and psychosocial dimensions. For his exhibition at Dia Bridgehampton, Ruiz presents an architecturally-scaled sculptural intervention alongside other new works to consider the history of and labor behind the creation and maintenance of the site in the context of local working conditions as well as labor’s broader histories in the United States. Engaging with daylight as a concept, as a material, as a resource, and as a political force, the works in De sol a sol point to the layered socioeconomic and political conditions of the East End of Long Island, where sunlight’s broad spectrum reveals an array of social distinctions, from sites of leisure to scenes of the working day. Be sure to stop by both institutions this summer to take see this incredible work in person. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public and the exhi...
