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Episode: Renown Artist Eric Rhein
Description: Eric Rhein’s work chronicles his life experience and travels, both geographic & mystic; his childhood in the Appalachian Mountains and New York’s Hudson Valley, and his nearly three decades living with HIV.
Arriving in New York City in 1980, 18-year-old Rhein became a part of the vital East Village arts scene, a unique community which permanently altered the city’s cultural and creative landscape—and which was in turn deeply altered by the AIDS crisis.
Rhein’s first New York works, butterfly puppets constructed for George Balanchine, sparked an interest in the use of linear elements—a formal theme that recurs in hi...