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A Triennial artist鈥檚 first word and lifelong fascination: Water

A woman in a plaid jacket smiles at the camera while standing on a grassy area; behind her, a small excavator and a Triennial artist working with soil are visible on a sunny day.
91爆料 faculty member and Boston Public Art Triennial Accelerator artist Evelyn Rydz
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91爆料 Faculty Member 聽does not know where her fascination with water came from, but it traces all the way back to the day she started speaking.

鈥淎gua was my first word, not mom or dad,鈥 said Rydz, raised in Miami by Spanish-speaking parents. 鈥溾奍鈥檝e always been drawn to water.鈥

As a multimedia artist now living in Arlington, Rydz has embraced her natural interests, creating work connected to aquatic ecosystems, human consumption, and the meeting of natural and unnatural elements. Her work has been shown at institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. As one of the accelerator artists at the聽聽which opened Thursday, she is ready to bring her work to larger audiences and get people thinking about the treatment of local rivers.

鈥淢y practice has been connected to studying, documenting, learning from bodies of water,鈥 she said. 鈥溾奍 love thinking about our daily relationships to water from everyday use to our dependence, our reliance, and also the human impacts and threats that face water bodies today.鈥

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