Thursday October 19, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Sarah Halpern
In conversation with Sheri Wills
In Person & Live-streamed
Free admission
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Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Sarah Halpern in connection with her current solo exhibition “The Whole Story” at the gallery, which we are pleased to announce has been extended through Friday October 20th. Halpern will be joined in conversation by artist Sheri Wills.
The discussion will center around the new sculptures and works on paper on view that together – and with wit – address themes of familiarly relationship, sexuality, and emotional inheritance and the cross-generational secrets and traumas that can infiltrate our lives and manifest themselves in our bodies, postures, and gestures.
The in-person event will also be live-streamed on this page.
“The Whole Story” continues through October 20th, 2023. More info about the exhibition including the nearly live-sized wall and floor sculptures from Halpern’s “Outlines” series, the smaller “Sundial” series, and drawing and collage on paper works can by found HERE.
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Sarah Halpern is an artist working with paper, installation, light, text, sound and performance. Her work has been presented at institutions including The Whitney Museum of American Art’s “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art, 1905-2016,” The Museum of Moving Image (MoMI), The Kitchen, Anthology Film Archives, Experimental Intermedia, The New York Film Festival (NYFF), and the Pompidou Center, Paris among others. Her work has been discussed in ARTNews, INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media, Rhizome, The Brooklyn Rail, Thirteen.org, and others. She received a BA in Film and Electronic Arts from Bard College and a MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowship. Sarah Halpern was born in Washington DC, and lives and works in New York.
Sheri Wills is an artist who works with film, video, and sound to make single-channel videos, installations, sound works, and live video performances. She explores the material, psychological, and philosophical potentials of cinema to reveal small moments that often go unseen and pull forward the emotional content of abstract imagery. She has had one-person shows at venues including the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in NYC, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Director’s Lounge in Berlin, Germany. Her films have been screened internationally, such as at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux in Paris, the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, the London Film Festival, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Fisura in Mexico City, and the Abattoirs Museum in Toulouse, France. Her films are distributed by Light Cone in Paris. She has made installations and participated at residencies including the At Home Gallery in Slovakia, the Narva Art Residency in Estonia, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Studios at MASS MoCA, among others.