Installation view of Carrie Yamaoka’s "seeing is forgetting and remembering and forgetting again," 2023. Photo by Dario Lasagni.

Artist Conversation: Carrie Yamaoka and Claire Grace [CANCELED]

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

FREE!

Associate Professor of Art History Claire Grace joins artist Carrie Yamaoka ’79 in a conversation about her exhibition seeing is forgetting and remembering and forgetting again, on display in the Main Gallery of the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery through Sunday, March 5, 2023.

Claire Grace is an Associate Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. Her first book, Art Demonstration: Group Material’s 1980s, offers an art historical analysis of a seminal New York-based collective that has become foundational to debates in art and activism. In 2009, Grace co-curated with Helen Molesworth the landmark traveling exhibition “ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993,” which featured the collective 'fierce pussy,' of which Yamaoka is a founding member.

Carrie Yamaoka ’79 is a New York-based visual artist whose work traverses the disciplines of painting, photography, and sculpture. She is interested in the topography of surfaces, materiality, and process, the tactility of the barely visible, and the chain of planned and chance incidents that determine the outcome of the object. Her work engages the viewer at the intersection between records of chemical action/reaction and the desire to apprehend a picture emerging in fleeting and unstable states of transformation. Exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), MoMA/PS1 (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Fondation Ricard (Paris), the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Artists Space (New York), the Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Writing about her work has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Hyperallergic, Interview, and Bomb. Her work is included in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, Henry Art Gallery, and Centre Pompidou. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and an Anonymous Was A Woman award. Yamaoka is represented by Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles). She is a founding member of the queer art collective fierce pussy.

For more information, please visit the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery website.

Image: Installation view of Carrie Yamaoka’s seeing is forgetting and remembering and forgetting again, 2023. Photo by Dario Lasagni.