Monday October 4, 7:00pm ET
Artist Talk: Jeanne Liotta
In conversation with Ed Halter
In-person & online (live-streamed on this page)
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Q&A with Jeanne Liotta and Ed Halter
Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Jeanne Liotta in connection with her current solo exhibition at the gallery “The World is a Picture of the World,” which continues through October 16th. Liotta will be joined in conversation by critic and curator Ed Halter. The discussion will be held both in-person and live streamed online on this page on Monday October 4th at 7pm ET.
Liotta will discuss her new body of work on view, which incorporates a variety of mediums such as collage, photograms, drawing and projection, and is inspired by or include among their materials 20th Century 35mm slides from NASA.
In these works Liotta is interested in light and time as the common thread between nature, astronomy, and the photographic process, noting the sun’s rays both as the source of life and vision and also as a destructive force. She also recognizes and draws attention to the fact that humanity’s understanding of the universe is based on photographic images that allow us to see beyond the eyes’ capabilities. Although based on reality, Liotta’s images propose fictional possibilities for our universe and other universes that may exist.
More information about Liotta and her solo exhibit “The World is a Picture of the World” is available here.
Please note: The event has a limited capacity of 30 on-site, with proof of vaccination for Covid-19 and masks required.
RSVP recommended to rsvp@microscopegallery.com
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Jeanne Liotta works with film, photography, collage, drawing, installation and other mediums with thematics often located at the intersection of art, science, natural philosophy, and ephemerality. Liotta’s works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas; The Contemporary Austin Jones Center, Austin, Texas; Inova Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; The Camera Club of NY, New York; and the Halle für Kunst und Media, Graz, Austria among others. Her films have appeared in the New York Film Festival, New York, NY; Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; CCCB, Barcelona, Spain; The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA; Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA; and many others. Awards include NYSCA, The Jerome Foundation, The Museum of Contemporary Cinema and The Orphans Film Symposium’s Helen Hill Award. Liotta has been a resident at the Experimental Television Center and a MacDowell Colony Fellow, among others. Jeanne Liotta lives and works between New York and Boulder, Colorado.
Ed Halter is a writer and curator living in Brooklyn. He is a founder and director Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, and teaches as Critic in Residence at Bard College.