weaving dance & Conversation
Eric-Paul Riege
Sháńdíín Brown
Friday, March 14, 2025, 3–8pm
Please join us for a special afternoon and evening with our lower level artist Eric-Paul Riege.
From 3:00 - 6:30pm Riege will perform his durational weaving dance with his work iiZiiT [3]: RIEGE Jewelry + Supply in our Lower Level gallery. Visitors are welcome to come and view the performance at any time, for as long as they like.
Following the weaving dance, Riege will join art historian, curator, and artist Sháńdíín Brown for a conversation at 7pm. Visitors do not need to RSVP for the weaving dance, but are encouraged to RSVP for the conversation.
The weaving dance will be located in our lower level gallery. The lower level gallery is accessed by one flight of stairs. Unfortunately, Canal Projects cannot offer wheelchair access to the lower level gallery at this time. The conversation will be located in our ground level gallery, which is accessed by a small flight of stairs or an ADA accessible lift. Please email us@canalprojects.org with any questions or concerns.
Both the weaving dance and the conversation will be held at Canal Projects, 351 Canal Street, 10013.
Sháńdíín Brown is a Diné (Navajo) art historian, curator, and creative from Arizona. She studies multitemporal Native American art and fashion at Yale University, exploring its connections to global contemporary Indigenous art, Indigenous feminism, and futurism. Her writing has been published in Forging, Forge Project’s journal, and Hyperallergic. She has curated exhibitions at the Hood Museum of Art, the RISD Museum, and the Hudson River Museum. She is also a jewelry maker.
Eric-Paul Riege (b. 1994, Diné/Navajo) works across media with an emphasis on woven sculpture, installation, and performance. He celebrates the ancestral stories in weaving, language, and adornment passed down from his maternal family. As a descendent of this knowledge, Riege honors the Diné worldview of hózhó which encompasses the values of beauty, balance, and goodness in all things physical and spiritual. What results are sensorial projects built in homage to ceremony, cosmology, and craft.
Riege’s recent solo exhibitions include Hóló llUllUHIbI [duet], Hammer Museum, and Hóló—it xistz, ICA Miami. Recent group exhibitions include Ten Thousand Suns, The 24th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; The Land Carries Our Ancestors, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Indian Theatre: Native Performance and Self-Determination since 1969, Hessel Museum of Art, New York; What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, Toronto Biennial of Art; Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, New Orleans Triennial; and Casa Tomada, SITElines Biennial, SITE Santa Fe.
He received his BFA in Studio Art and Ecology, with a minor in Navajo Language and Linguistics, from The University of New Mexico. Riege lives and works in his hometown Na’nízhoozhí (Gallup, New Mexico). Riege’s work is in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Hammer Museum, ICA Miami, LACMA, Denver Art Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Forge Project, among others.
