ARTIST TALK: Lucy Raven in conversation with Alan Ruiz

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, 2024 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.”

Ruiz, who is creating a new site-responsive work at Dia Bridgehampton, examines man-made landscapes and environments. By considering the physical sites and social relations behind industrial, institutional, and bureaucratic spaces, Ruiz juxtaposes the physical and historical, the man-made and the natural.  Exploring Dia’s architecture and its previous lives as a fire station and First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton, as well considering the symbolic and layered meaning in the natural light of the East End, Ruiz leverages the viewers’ attention and perception, creating a unique experience within the space.

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 exhibition hours are below: