Lizzie Perrotte focusses on photography, creating a conversation between two black and white, silver gelatin prints, representing the portraits of women.
One by American, Dada/Surrealist artist, Man Ray, from a series, Veiled Erotic, taken in 1933, representing his lover, the artist, Meret Oppenheim. The other, a self-portrait by contemporary South African artist, Zanele Muholi, part of an extensive, ongoing series of self-portraits, titled, Somnyama Ngonyama’(Hail the Dark Lioness). Both artists challenge the idea of photography as a mechanical process which simply translates or documents reality. Both create highly performative images, staging their subjects and using objects as ‘uncanny’ props to defamiliarize their identities.
In the series:
Thurs. Dec. 15 – Painting
Thurs. Dec. 29 – Sculpture
WED. Feb. 1, 2023 – Photography*
*Please note that date was changed from December 29.
Lizzie Perrotte creates a dialogue between the sculpture of two female artists: British Modernist, Barbara Hepworth and French born artist, Louise Bourgeois
Hepworth created highly refined abstract equivalents for her physical experiences of the ancient, wild, and beautiful coastal landscape, environment of Cornwall, England where she lived and worked for much of her life.
By contrast, Bourgeois, used sculpture to explore subjects drawn from myth, literature which became entwined with projections of her own imaginings. In the 90s she used installation to create sculptural environments inviting viewers to confront phobic subjects, such as spiders. Her spider, “Maman”, outside the National Gallery in Ottawa, is a major landmark.
In the series:
Thurs. Dec. 15 – Painting
Thurs. Dec. 29 – Sculpture*
WED. Feb. 1, 2023 – Photography*
*Please note that Sculpture was changed from Dec. 22 to Dec. 29 and Photography was changed to Wed. Jan. 4 and then to Feb. 1*
This series of three sessions on Modern and Contemporary art will feature Painting, Sculpture, and Photography.
Through an in-depth exploration of works by two major artists each week, the talks will raise some big issues, providing key tools for you to approach a wide range of art produced across the 20th & 21st centuries.
Elizabeth Perrotte will untangle the terms Modernism and Postmodernism and delve into some questions about art’s changing techniques, subjects and aesthetics (the experience of art) which have been hotly debated over the past century.
Session 1 will focus on Jackson Pollock & Gerhard Richter
For session 1 we put works by American painter, Jackson Pollock into conversation with painting by contemporary German artist Gerhard Richter. Both artists experimented with methods of painting, interrogating its boundaries and capabilities, subverting traditional values of artistic skill and creativity.
In the series:
Thurs. Dec. 15 – Painting
Thurs. Dec. 29 – Sculpture
Wed. Jan. 4, 2023 – Photography
