Stay at Home: Spring 2020 Artist Talks

A series of artist talks in collaboration with the Office of Alumni and Family Engagement and Pitzer College Art Galleries, programmed in conjunction with Pitzer@Home.


 

Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 3:00 p.m. PST

Elana Mann will discuss her 2018 exhibition Instruments of Accountability, in the fourth iteration of “Stay at Home with Pitzer College Art Galleries.” Tracing the relationship of early listening and speaking devices from the seventeenth century to those utilized by modern-day protest movements, Mann’s exhibition comprised sculptural instruments, musical scores, and a 1960s hand-crafted mega-kazoo-horn, which was on loan from the Folk Music Center in Claremont.

A brief Q & A will follow.

Elana Mann: Instruments of Accountability was organized by Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis, PhD.


Images: (above) Kang Seung Lee, Untitled (Artspeak?), 2015, installation view; Jenny Yurshansky, Blacklisted, a Planted Allegory, 2015, installation view (detail). Photos by Ruben Diaz

Tuesday, May 5, 2020, 3 p.m. PST

The third iteration of “Stay at Home with Pitzer College Art Galleries,” takes the form of a conversation between artists Jenny Yurshansky and Kang Seung Lee who will discuss their respective exhibitions (both 2015) and their experience working at Pitzer and engaging Campus communities. Concerned with systems of inclusion and exclusion, Jenny Yurshansky: Blacklisted, a Planted Allegory explored the official terminology used by the Californian invasive plant registry—which described plants as alien, invasive, and non-native—as a means to discuss border control issues and immigration. Alternatively, Kang Seung Lee: Artspeak (Untitled?), took the mainstream compendium of art from the early 90’s as its point of reference to rewrite conventional art history from a queer perspective.

A brief Q & A will follow.

Jenny Yurshansky: Blacklisted, a Planted Allegory and Kang Seung Lee: Artspeak (Untitled?) were organized by Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis, PhD.


Images: Faculty Art Show, 2017, installation view; detail: above, Tim Berg & Rebekah Myers, Needle in a Haystack, 2015; below, Jessica McCoy, Room with Llewyn and Harris, 2017, watercolor on paper, 144 x 156 inches (three panels each 47 x 156 inches). Photos by Ruben Diaz

Friday, May 1, 2020, 11 a.m., PST

Pitzer College Professor of Art and co-curator of the 2017 Faculty Art Show, Bill Anthes is joined by Pitzer Art Field Group faculty Tim Berg and Jessica McCoy in the second in our “Stay at Home” series for a Zoom conversation about their work. Faculty Art Show was co-curated by Professor of Art Bill Anthes and Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis, PhD.

This exhibition focused on the legacy of the Pitzer College Art Field Group and its dedication to progressive ideas around environmentalism and art. Work made by Tim Berg (Rebekah Myers), Sarah Gilbert, Tarrah Krajnak and Jessica McCoy will be discussed in the context of work made by Carl Hertel, David Furman, Michael Woodcock, Kathryn Miller and Paul Faulstich that have contributed to the conversation.

A brief Q & A will follow.


Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea), 2020, installation view. Photo by Ruben Diaz

Thursday, April 23, 2020, 10 a.m., PST

Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs Ciara Ennis welcomes artist Hans Baumann to join the Pitzer Community on Zoom for a talk about his work and recent exhibition Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea), presented at Pitzer’s Lenzner Family Art Gallery.

5 Distillations (Salton Sea) examines the political frameworks and biophysical processes that created—and now imperil—the largest body of water in the State of California. Drawing from empirical observation, archival research and the artist’s long-term collaboration with the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, this project reflects upon the inevitable collapse of a vast inland sea that has sustained the indigenous people of this region since time immemorial.

A brief Q & A will follow the talk.

Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea) was organized by Ciara Ennis, PhD., Pitzer College Art Galleries Director and Pitzer College Director of Curatorial Affairs.


“Stay at Home with Pitzer College Art Galleries” is made possible through the generous support of Alumni & Family Engagement and Pitzer Advancement and is programmed in conjunction with Pitzer@Home