Thursday January 16, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Kamari Carter
In conversation w/ Sarah Bochicchio
In person & live-streamed
Admission is free
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Q&A with the audience online
Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with LA-born, New York-based artist Kamari Carter in connection with his current solo exhibition at the gallery “Vexillary,” which continues through January 25th. Carter will be joined in conversation by writer and art historian Sarah Bochicchio. The event will also be live-streamed on our website on this page.
The discussion will focus on Carter’s new works on view – including medium to large-scale installations, sculptures, lithographs, and inkjet prints on canvas – that to various extents utilize, represent or offer variations of the American flag to reflect on the history, symbolism, and promise of the banner and how that corresponds to the realities of our culture and society. The ways in which these works expand upon his wider investigations of systems of power in the US will also be discussed, among others.
Further information about the exhibition “Vexillary” can be found HERE.
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Kamari Carter (b. 1992) is a New York-based artist working primarily with installation, video, sound, and performance to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; Wave Hill, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Automata Arts, Los Angeles, among others, and has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, and Whitewall, among others. Carter received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA in 2017 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2019.
Sarah Bochicchio is a writer and art historian focused on fashion, gender, and the self. She has contributed to journalistic, academic, and museum publications, including Art Papers, Whitewall, The Outline, Art & Object, British Art Studies, and the recent exhibition catalogue for The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is currently pursuing her PhD in History of Art at Yale University.