To celebrate the closing of Sky Into Stone, exhibiting artist Katrina Bello and sound artist Jonathan Harris will host a public program—part artist talk and part immersive sound experience.
In an artist talk, Bello will discuss her work on view and how her Tusen Takk residency–heavily informed by the sounds of nearby Lake Michigan–impacted not only her practice but also her bodily experience. Since the residency, conversations with Harris have contributed to Bello’s newfound considerations of sound. The second portion of the program will feature their collaborative work, incorporating Harris’ practice that uses sound and space to explore perceptual and cognitive phenomena. Connecting the material and immaterial, Harris’ work cultivates audiences’ abilities to observe and, thus, reengage with our environments.
ARTIST BIOS
Born in Davao City in the Philippines, Katrina Bello is a visual artist whose work is informed by memory, observations, experiences and narratives of land and natural surroundings during her experience of immigrating to the United States. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and the Philippines, and has been awarded fellowships and residencies in the United States. She attended the College of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, and received a BFA from the Mason Gross School of The Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She currently lives and works in New Jersey in the United States and Metro Manila in the Philippines.
Jonathan Harris is a New York-based artist using objects, sound, and space as tools to explore cognitive and perceptual phenomena. this work typically involves the creation of environments that investigate the physical and spatial characteristics of sound, often taking the form of site-responsive installations whose sonic elements push against conventional temporal constructs and exist as sculptural or architectural materials themselves. Jonathan’s practice is centered on how sound and architecture’s innate relationship with the body informs an individual’s conception of space and their place in the world, with a deep interest in cultivating observational practices that provoke—outside of art spaces— reengagement and realignment with real-world habitats.
He has presented this work in museums, galleries, and public sites throughout New York City, greater NY, the Hudson Valley, and internationally. From 2021–2024, he exhibited sunpath, a large-scale public installation at Purchase College, NY, which used artist-built electronics, photovoltaic data, and sound to trace the sun’s position in the sky across an array of loudspeakers positioned under the two 1000’-long outdoor arcades that form the perimeter of the college’s main campus plaza.
Jonathan studied Harmony, Composition, and Sound at the Juilliard School and Purchase College, and holds an MFA in sound art from Columbia University.