Artist Talks
Laddie John Dill
Artist Talks provide a rare opportunity for art lovers to meet living artists and get the inside story on their artistic process and what inspires them.
Artist Talk / A Conversation with Penelope Umbrico
Friday, May 16 / 6PM-7PM
Artist Penelope Umbrico’s installations, video, and digital media works utilize photo-sharing and consumer-to-consumer websites (eBay, Craigslist, and Flickr) as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images. Join Umbrico and Lauren Richman, Ph.D., William and Sarah Ross Soter Senior Curator of Photography, for a conversation about the appropriation and digital distortion of found images. Her work, Mountains, Moving: Of Dr. George C. Poundstone, 1926-2013 is featured in the special exhibition, Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception.
Space is limited; online registration required. (available March 25 for members and April 1 for non-members).
Cost: Museum Admission / Members FREE
Penelope Umbrico has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; MoMA PS1; MassMoCA; International Center for Photography; and the Milwaukee Art Museum. She has been the recipient of several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, among others. Umbrico is currently core faculty at the School of Visual Arts, and lives in New York City.
Support for this program was provided by the Gayle and Paul Gross Education Endowment Fund.