Peck Ledge
Lighthouse Residency
The Norwalk Art Space Peck Ledge Lighthouse Residency aims to provide an exciting opportunity for artists to find inspiration and solace in a historical and unique structure that rises directly out of the Long Island Sound. Its beautifully renovated Interior has a 360-degree view of the Connecticut and Long Island coastlines. While there are certain logistical and environmental restrictions in providing access, once on site, we want artists’ imaginations to run wild. If you or an artist you know are looking for a place that challenges your artistic journey, look no further: we’re here and we can’t wait to see what you can create.
For more information on the Peck Ledge Lighthouse, please visit https://www.peckledgelighthouse.org/
Please contact Peck Ledge Lighthouse Art Director Patrick Sikes at info@patricksikes.com for more information
2024 Peck Ledge Lighthouse
Inaugural RESIDENCY
SEPTEMBER 3 - SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Richard Klein
September 3 - September 7, 2024
Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Kent, CT; and The Equity Gallery, New York. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker.
From 1999 to 2022 he was Exhibitions Director at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. In his more than two-decade long career as a curator he has organized over 80 exhibitions, including solo shows of the work of Janine Antoni, Sol LeWitt, Mark Dion, Roy Lichtenstein, Hank Willis Thomas, Brad Kahlhamer, Kim Jones, Jack Whitten, Jessica Stockholder, Tom Sachs, Elana Herzog. Major curatorial projects at The Aldrich have included Fred Wilson: Black Like Me (2006), No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art (2006), Elizabeth Peyton: Portrait of an Artist (2008), Shimon Attie: MetroPAL.IS. (2011), Michael Joo: Drift (2014), Kay Rosen: H Is for House (2017), Weather Report (2019), Hugo McCloud: from where I stand (2021), Duane Slick: The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better (2022), and Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art (2023).
His essays on art and culture have appeared in Cabinet magazine and have been included in books published by Gregory R. Miller & Co., Damiani, Picturebox, Ridinghouse, Hatje Cantz, and the University of Chicago Press, among others
Ward Shelley
September 3 - September 7, 2024
Ward Shelley works as an artist in New York and Connecticut. He is interested
in constructed worlds and intersecting narratives; how they create, mediate and
inform each other. He wants to know how things really work.
Shelley specializes in large projects that freely mix architecture and performance.
For more than a decade, he has been collaborating with Alex Schweder, using
experimental architecture to explore the dance between the designed
environment and its consequences. Since 2007, the duo have designed, built,
and lived in (or on) seven structures, all of them in locations where the public are
invited not only to witness, but also to actively engage with the artists in direct
dialogue about their practice—an activity that has coalesced into what they call
“performance architecture.”
Shelley also works on diagramatic paintings: information-based timelines on
culture-related subjects and historical postmortems. He frequently works with
Douglas Paulson on installations and environments that attempt to turn mind,
text, and meaning inside out (for a better look). They created the “The Last
Library” project for Spaces in 2015.
Shelley’s work has been exhibited in more than 10 countries and is in a number
of museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney
Museum, the Brooklyn Art Museum, and The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for
Feminist Art. Shelley received a Painting and Sculpture award from the Joan
Mitchell foundation, and has been a fellow of the American Academy in Rome
since 2006. He has received NYFA and NEA fellowships in sculpture and new
media categories, a Bessie Award for installation art, and grants from the Jerome Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He is represented by Pierogi Gallery in New York.
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