Jennifer Williams: Wolf Chair in Photography Artist Talk

Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 6:30 - 8pm

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1994 School of Art alumna and 2020 Wolf Chair in Photography Jennifer Williams gives an online artist's talk about her work. Williams's sculptural, cinematic installations transform space using large-scale, multi-layered, photographic compositions, creating dizzying, immersive representations of flux. The work crawls across walls, floors, and ceilings, describing a gut-level physicality of change, detailing neighborhoods mired in new construction, exposing both the monumental scale of rising capitalist interests and the shrinking perspective of the individual citizen.

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J WilliamsWilliams, who also earned a MFA from Goldsmiths College, London, England, is represented by Robert Mann Gallery in New York. Her work has been widely exhibited throughout the country, including The Akron Art Museum, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and Queens Museum. Public art projects include the Dumbo Arts Festival, UMASS Amherst, The Moss Art Center at Virginia Tech, and Strongroom in Newburgh, NY. She's the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner grant for Photography, and several Queens Council for the Arts grants. She is also an adjunct professor and head photography technician in the School of Art.

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