Join us for a conversation on the work of Kaari Upson with Leslie Dick and Audrey Wollen, both of whom worked closely with the late artist. In Upson’s work everyday images are conjured and made strange, targeting viewers’ psychological comfort zones and confronting them with visceral and affecting evocations of loss and instability. Themes of beauty, abjection, memory, motherhood and domesticity course throughout her work, as do references to Southern California where she often made her home.
Leslie Dick is a writer who taught in the Art Program at CalArts for 29 years. Since 2012 she has also worked as a Visiting Critic at Yale School of Art. The author of two novels and a book of shorter writings, she is a member of the Editorial Board of X-TRA. Audrey Wollen is a writer from Los Angeles living in New York. Her criticism has recently appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Artforum, Bookforum, The Nation and other publications. They are also mother and daughter.
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