Center for Curatorial Studies Presents
The Visitor Talks: Christine Tohme and Martha Wilson
Martha Wilson is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director who, over the past four decades, created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity. She has been described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen most important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s.” In 1976, she founded Franklin Furnace, an artist-run space that champions the exploration, promotion, and preservation of artists’ books, temporary installation, performance art, as well as online works. She is represented by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York; and has received fellowships for performance art from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; Bessie and Obie awards for commitment to artists’ freedom of expression; a Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts; a Richard J. Massey Foundation-White Box Arts and Humanities Award; and in 2013 received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University.
This talk is given as part of the lecture series The Visitor Talks – Dialogues : Similarly Different or More of the Same.
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Location: CCS Bard Seminar Room 1