Montreal-based artist Erin Shirreff shares with us a conversation about her latest body of work Sculptures and Their Shadows, currently a solo-show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, as well as her current exhibition at the Clark, Remainders.
Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Anne Leonard presents the opening lecture of the exhibition Hue & Cry: French Printmaking and the Debate Over Colors. The exhibition and lecture presented on December 11, 2021 explored the opposition to color in nineteenth-century French printmaking. Vivid color—technically difficult to achieve, expensive, and frowned upon as a matter of aesthetic taste—nevertheless became the signature quality of some of the era’s best-loved prints and posters.
Circling themes of marginality, oral history, and cultural heritage, this talk examines the urgency of traditional and emerging archival practices and addresses a shift in the framing of historical narratives that challenge dominant representations and stigmas of outsider cultures in Bahamian artistic practices.
Cecilia Fajardo-Hill is a Research Scholar at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. An independent British/Venezuelan art historian and curator in modern and contemporary art, she is focused on Latin American and Latinx art. Fajardo-Hill has a PhD in Art History from the University of Essex, England, and an MA and a Postgraduate Diploma in 20th Century Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England. She has published and curated extensively on contemporary Latin American and international art.
Through layered visual displays, Ewe people in Togo map histories of cultural exchange with Indian merchants and African Muslims onto contemporary social relations. Some communities perform memories of trade with Indian merchants through festival arts that embody Hindu chromolithograph images as depictions of local water spirits.
