Thursday July 11, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Ina Archer
In conversation with Susan Delson
In Person & Live-streamed
Free admission
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Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Ina Archer in connection with her current solo exhibition “To Deceive the Eye” at the gallery on view through July 27th. Archer will be joined in conversation by arts journalist and film historian Susan Delson.
The discussion will revolve around the central theme of the show that Archer’s works in video installation, film, watercolor and other works on paper address the representation of African Americans in cinema, the media and wider culture, both historically and presently. In addition, especially in her 3-channel video installation “Black Black Moonlight: A Minstrel Show,” the artist also underlines the ways in which visual technical advancements and technologies have been employed to facilitate — and in certain cases to render possible — the expression and dissemination of racial stereotypes and tropes.
The in-person event will also be live-streamed on this page.
“To Deceive the Eye” continues through July 27, 2024. Further information about the exhibition can be found HERE.
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Ina Archer is an artist working primarily with the mediums of drawing, collage, moving image, and installation, whose work examines the intersections of race/ethnicity, representation, and technology. Her works have been shown at institutions including Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; White Columns, NY; The List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge, MA; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Portland Museum of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, and many others. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times, among others. Archer was a Studio Artist in the Whitney Independent Study and has received grants and awards from Creative Capital, New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), Harvestworks; Anonymous Was A Woman, and the American Academy in Rome. Archer received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University (NYU). Ina Archer currently lives between Washington DC and Brooklyn, NY.
Susan Delson is an arts journalist and film historian based in New York City. Her books include Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time (Indiana University Press 2021), Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals (Prestel, 2011), and Dudley Murphy, Hollywood Wild Card (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). She is the curator of Soundies: The Ultimate Collection (2023), a 200-film, 25-program package produced by Kino Lorber and the Library of Congress, and has co-hosted Soundies presentations on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). A former film programmer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she has written and lectured on such topics as the making of Ballet mécanique, the influence of silent film on the art of René Magritte, and photographer Helen Levitt as a cinéaste. Early in her career Delson was a filmmaker; among her projects is Cause and Effect (1989), one of the first films produced by Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, and Barry Ellsworth for their company Apparatus Productions (recently restored by IndieCollect). Delson’s writing on art has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and other publications.