Please join us for the Ithaca Artist Talk
Sunday, October 10 at 5:00 PM.
Amanda Maciel Antunes in conversation with renowned art critic, writer, and scholar, Scarlet Cheng.
Please RSVP for Sunday’s October 10 Artist Talk by noon, October 9th. Limited seating.
RSVP to: director@lunaanais.com
5:00 PM Artist Talk begins (We’ll start right on time).
5:45 PM Audience Q&A
6:00 Talk ends
6:30 Reception with refreshments
Plenty of street parking
Location: Tin Flats
1989 Blake Avenue
Neighborhood: Frogtown
SCARLET CHENG is an arts writer and adjunct professor at two art colleges. She is a regular contributor to The Los Angeles Times, The Art Newspaper, and Artillery art magazine, and has been published in ARTnews, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Vogue, and many other print and online publications. During a sojourn in Hong Kong, she was managing editor of Asian Art News magazine, the first English-language magazine to focus on the modern and contemporary art of Asia.
Ms. Cheng has authored numerous essays for monographs and art catalogs, including Made in China: New Ceramic Work by Keiko Fukazawa (2016), Quentin Shih’s Moving Theatre from Shanghai, Hong Kong, to Havana (2013), and Gwynn Murrill: Early Wood Sculpture (2011). Ms. Cheng also teaches art and film history at two of Southern California’s major art colleges, Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art & Design.
AMANDA MACIEL ANTUNES is from the rural region of the state of São Paulo, Brazil and she lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is self-taught, and began making art as a child with her grandfather who was a self-taught painter, writer, and sculptor. Antunes uses painting, writing, film, sculpture, sound, and performance to present conversations between the polarities of selfhood: such as life and death, light and shadow, seen and unseen, known and unknown. She is interested in the myth that language is an adequate system to describe the nuance of our experience of the world. And, she reflects on the selective nature of memory and cultural inheritance, both of which are processes that help us adapt to and interpret our present.
