Sargent's Daughters invites you to a panel discussion of Brad Jones (an ongoing collaboration by Brandi Twilley and Jennifer Rubell)
Panelists: David Humphrey, Jennifer Rubell, Sara Stern, Brandi Twilley, Emily Weiner
Moderated by Tanya Selvaratnam
Wednesday, December 10th, 6pm
David Humphrey is a New York artist who has shown nationally and internationally. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize among other awards. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by Periscope Publishing in 2010. He teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia and Penn and is represented by the Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, NY.
Jennifer Rubell lives and works in New York City. She received her B.A. in Fine Arts from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA in 1993. Rubell is known for artwork that combines performance art, installation, and sculpture, employing a range of media. Her work and performances have been shown in the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Dallas Contemporary and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Most recently, she created a food performance for the Performa PARADISO Gala, Paradiso and premiered 50 Cakes at The Rubell Collection.
Tanya Selvaratnam was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Long Beach, CA. She is a writer, producer, actor, and activist based in New York City and Portland, Oregon. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Chinese language and history from Harvard University and is the author of THE BIG LIE: Motherhood, Feminism, and the Reality of the Biological Clock. Her writing has been featured in Vogue, Paper Magazine, The Huffington Post and CNN. She has produced projects by Chiara Clemente, Mickalene Thomas, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
Sara Stern is an artist working across video, performance, photography, installation, and writing. She studied Studio Art at Harvard, where she is now a Teaching Assistant for courses at the intersection of Studio and Film. In 2012-13, she was a Henry Russell Shaw fellow in Berlin, and a staff contributor for the contemporary art and culture magazine frieze d/e. Stern currently lives and works in New York and Cambridge, MA.
Brandi Twilley lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, MA in 2006, and received her M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Her work has been exhibited at 109 Gallery and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, NY. Upon earning her M.F.A., she received the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize.
Emily Weiner is an artist based in New York City. She received her BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 2003 and her MFA in Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in 2011. She has exhibited at The Banff Centre; Alberta, Canada, Sargent's Daughters; New York, NY, and Soloway Gallery; Brooklyn, NY. She is currently faculty at The School of Visual Arts and at Pratt Institute in New York City. Weiner has written consistently for ArtForum and TimeOut New York. She co-directs Soloway, an artist-run space in Brooklyn, NY.
The exhibition is on view through December 21st.
