Charles Recher (c. 1950 â€" 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.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. Recher died on January
26, 2017 at the age of 66.
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.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. Recher died on January
26, 2017 at the age of 66.
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