Charles Recher (c. 1950 – January 26, 2017) was an American
installation artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in
Miami Beach, Florida. Recher created in excess of one hundred films and videos. His work ranged from the film "
Kwagh-Hir (Thing of Magic)", a documentary of the theater tradition of the
Tiv people of
Nigeria, to "Cars & Fish",
Miami Performing Arts Center's inaugural video installation, which cast 600-foot-long swirling images onto adjacent building façades during Art Basel/Miami Beach in 2005.
Career
Recher held numerous guest lectureships and workshops at national and international institutions, including the
University of Havana (Cuba). His work was selected for the "Masters of the Avant-Garde" program at
Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Arts, where he presented his work as a guest lecturer. For fifteen years he taught the experimental film and video program that he originated for
Miami-Dade College's Wolfson Campus. His awards and fellowships include Cultural Consortium Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts regional grants, and State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships.[1][2][3]
Recher died on January 26, 2017, at the age of 66.[4]
Select Film and Media Events
Seagull, Bamboo, Water, Leaf, four video loops (2015)
Mat Wit Bat, Bit Tic Mor, Tu Ba Cal, Wal Di Cal, four video loops (2015)
Walk Run, two facing screen video loops (2014)
No I Don't, video loop (2014)
Small Stuff, 2D and 3D correlative works (2013)[5]
Kwagh-hir, 30-min. documentary video of the traditional theatre of the Tiv people in Nigeria (2005),[12] short version shown at the 2006 Miami Film Festival
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abcSummers, Marya.
"Local Art, National Appeal". Video Prophet, I'm Ready, Electrowave (Ride). Palm Beach Art. Archived from
the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
Charles Recher (c. 1950 – January 26, 2017) was an American
installation artist and filmmaker who lived and worked in
Miami Beach, Florida. Recher created in excess of one hundred films and videos. His work ranged from the film "
Kwagh-Hir (Thing of Magic)", a documentary of the theater tradition of the
Tiv people of
Nigeria, to "Cars & Fish",
Miami Performing Arts Center's inaugural video installation, which cast 600-foot-long swirling images onto adjacent building façades during Art Basel/Miami Beach in 2005.
Career
Recher held numerous guest lectureships and workshops at national and international institutions, including the
University of Havana (Cuba). His work was selected for the "Masters of the Avant-Garde" program at
Harvard University Carpenter Center for the Arts, where he presented his work as a guest lecturer. For fifteen years he taught the experimental film and video program that he originated for
Miami-Dade College's Wolfson Campus. His awards and fellowships include Cultural Consortium Fellowships, National Endowment for the Arts regional grants, and State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowships.[1][2][3]
Recher died on January 26, 2017, at the age of 66.[4]
Select Film and Media Events
Seagull, Bamboo, Water, Leaf, four video loops (2015)
Mat Wit Bat, Bit Tic Mor, Tu Ba Cal, Wal Di Cal, four video loops (2015)
Walk Run, two facing screen video loops (2014)
No I Don't, video loop (2014)
Small Stuff, 2D and 3D correlative works (2013)[5]
Kwagh-hir, 30-min. documentary video of the traditional theatre of the Tiv people in Nigeria (2005),[12] short version shown at the 2006 Miami Film Festival
^
abcSummers, Marya.
"Local Art, National Appeal". Video Prophet, I'm Ready, Electrowave (Ride). Palm Beach Art. Archived from
the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2011.