Handmade Photography Today: A Virtual Artist Talk Series - Zohra OpokuThursday, February 18, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pmVirtual - Free and open to the public; advanced registration required.The Davis Museum continues the Handmade Photography Today artist talk series with a focus on “Portraits of Place.” This spring, we will hear from four acclaimed photographers working in alternative processes: Zohra Opoku (photo processing on textiles), Pushpamala N (tableaux and studio photography), Gerardo Suter (manipulated gelatin silver prints), and David Benjamin Sherry (analog color prints). Each artist’s chosen format inflects the aesthetic, social, and political consequences of their work. In foregrounding material processes in relation to image content, this second part of the Handmade Photography Today series will elaborate themes explored in the fall, while confronting a range of pressing issues related to the role of cultural memories and visual archives in contemporary formations of place.
Join Amanda Gilvin, Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Davis Museum, in conversation with artist Zohra Opoku, who applies identity politics to her exploration of cultural memory in Ghana in photographs printed on natural fabrics.
Preregistration required here.
Free and open to the public.
Co-hosted with the Photographic Resource Center
Generously sponsored by the Bern Schwartz Family Foundation
Thursday, February 18, 2021 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual - Free and open to the public; advanced registration required.
The Davis Museum continues the Handmade Photography Today artist talk series with a focus on “Portraits of Place.” This spring, we will hear from four acclaimed photographers working in alternative processes: Zohra Opoku (photo processing on textiles), Pushpamala N (tableaux and studio photography), Gerardo Suter (manipulated gelatin silver prints), and David Benjamin Sherry (analog color prints). Each artist’s chosen format inflects the aesthetic, social, and political consequences of their work. In foregrounding material processes in relation to image content, this second part of the Handmade Photography Today series will elaborate themes explored in the fall, while confronting a range of pressing issues related to the role of cultural memories and visual archives in contemporary formations of place.
Join Amanda Gilvin, Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Davis Museum, in conversation with artist Zohra Opoku, who applies identity politics to her exploration of cultural memory in Ghana in photographs printed on natural fabrics.
Preregistration required here.
Free and open to the public.
Co-hosted with the Photographic Resource Center
Generously sponsored by the Bern Schwartz Family Foundation