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Ficus Interfaith is an artistic duo based in New York City. Ficus Interfaith is a collaboration between Ryan Bush (b. 1990, Denver, CO) and Raphael Martinez Cohen (b. 1989, New York, NY). Bush and Martinez Cohen have been working together since 2013.
Education
Bush and Martinez Cohen met at the Rhode Island School of Design where they both received BAs in painting.
Career
= Exhibitions
=Solo Exhibitions
Chabudai, Chabudai, Numano Hashi, in Tokyo, Japan 2024
Grand Central Treehouse, at Deli Gallery, NY, 2023
Ficus Interfaith, Jack Chiles, New York, NY, 2019
Frame House Whereabouts, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Summer Terrazzos, Prairie, Chicago, IL, 2018
Flower Bat Mullion, From The Desk of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
Ficus Interfaith, Gern En Regalia, Ridgewood, NY, 2017
Selected Group Exhibitions
"Objects for a Heavenly Cave"- Marta, Los Angeles, CA, 2024
"Residual Energies" - Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, Fl 2024
"Los Angeles Bar" - "Second Pour," In Lieu, Los Angeles, 2024
Local Objects, International Objects, New York, NY, 2023
From Cellar to Garret, South Parade, London, 2020-2021
Theorem X, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, 2021
Red Root, Green Root, The Valley, Taos, New Mexico 2021
Dear John, Adams and Ollman, Portland, 2021
No Place, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, 2020
In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, NY, 2020
Rubus Armeniacus (Himalayan blackberry), Jessica’s Apartment, New York, NY, 2019
Downturn, Sibling, Toronto, Canada, 2019
The Nourishment, From The Desk of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
RESET, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY, 2019
At the End of the Game You Will Be Forgotten, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY, 2018
The Earth is a Trampled Garden, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Dangerous Together, Prairie, Chicago, IL, 2018
Progress Beyond Reason, MX Gallery, New York, NY, 2017
dccon1: narrabantur, U.S. Blues, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
= Residencies
=Salmon Creek Farm, Albion, CA 2024
Numano Hashi, A Tokyo, Japan 2024
Clay Club, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY, 2018
Artists in Residence, Shadaken Projects: Storm King, New Windsor, NY, 2018
Artists in Residence, 2727 California Street, Berkeley, CA, 2018
Style and technique
In the mid-2010s, Ficus Interfaith began working with terrazzo, a cementitious composite material, usually used in flooring. Ficus Interfaith's sculptures explore the creative possibilities of the terrazzo technique which is more commonly found in public or municipal spaces. In addition to their free standing and wall-mounted terrazzo sculptures, Ficus Interfaith make site-specific terrazzo installations. Ficus Interfaith use typical and atypical materials in their terrazzo including but not limited to peach stones, oyster shells, the royal blue glass of Saratoga Water bottles, petrified wood, marbles, pits, deer bones, and walnuts.
Since December 8, 2014, Ficus Interfaith has maintained a WordPress blog titled My Brothers Garden.
The name Ficus Interfaith comes from the "fig tree genus and the allure of spirituality."
Ficus Interfaith work out of a studio in Queens, NYC. For Bush and Martinez Cohen, the Ficus Interfaith entity functions as a third distinct voice. In a December 2023 interview with ARTnews, Ficus Interfaith stated "most of our pieces operate as paintings."
Ficus Interfaith's art is informed by their formal training in painting. Ficus Interfaith credit many inspirations including: craft objects, Rhizofiltration, Sponge Bob, The Timeless Way of Building, Rockwell Kent, homosocial behavior, and Pinocchio.
References
External links
[https://www.instagram.com/ficusinterfaith/?hl=en}
My Brothers Garden - Ficus Interfaith blog