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 PAST CONVERSATIONS SERIES EVENT Artist Talk with Lauren Kelley Moderated by Yulia Tikhonova Tuesday, September 21, 7:30pm at The Camera Club Studio In her talk, as part of the CCNY Conversations Series, Lauren Kelley will discuss the process of stop–animation she uses to activate an array of protagonists, embodied by Barbie–style dolls. Flight attendants, medical assistants and food-servers, they enact the passing soap operas of everyday life, with edgy wit and a sharp sense of social critique. Kelley mines vernacular contexts‚ flirtations at the fast food counter‚ squabbles among flight attendants to probe into common conflicts of race, gender, and class. Kelley, based in Houston, incorporates dialogue from overheard conversations, creating documentary–like sound landscapes for her scripted narratives. Animating an array of black characters, she poignantly brings to life a large cast of dolls to find resonance in the petty conflicts of the mundane. Kelley is just completing a year–long residency at the Studio Museum of Harlem. She is also a recipient of the Altoids Award in 2008. She received an MFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and has studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine and is currently a resident artist in the CORE Program, Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Kelley is included in the collection of the Artist Pension Trust. Moscow-born, New York–based curator Yulia Tikhonova graduated from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY. |
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