Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago
On Friday, October 15, 2021, artist and professor Allyson Vieira gave a presentation to the CHS research community. The event was recorded live via Zoom.
Vieira discusses the trajectory of her artistic practice and traces the influence of the ancient world within it. In Vieira’s work, time is often stretched, folded, and twisted: the present and future treated as if they belong to an ancient archeological site. In a new series of weavings made from plastic bags and construction debris netting, she continues her investigations of labor, craft, and the material evidence of time, while considering the knowledge, mythologies, and forms of communication that we inherit from past civilizations and reiterate to the next.
Artist Allyson Vieira lives and works in New York. She is currently Assistant Professor of Foundations at the Corcoran School of Art at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has exhibited extensively both internationally and in the U.S., including institutional projects at Kunsthalle Basel, Swiss Institute, Storm King Art Center, PinchukArtCentre, Non-Objectif Sud, Frieze Projects, The Public Art Fund, The Highline, and SculptureCenter. Her first major catalog, Allyson Vieira: The Plural Present, was published by Karma Books in 2016. Her book of interviews with Greek master marble carvers, On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews, for which she was the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation, and FLACC, is now available from Soberscove Press.
On Friday, October 15, 2021, artist and professor Allyson Vieira gave a presentation to the CHS research community. The event was recorded live via Zoom.
Vieira discusses the trajectory of her artistic practice and traces the influence of the ancient world within it. In Vieira’s work, time is often stretched, folded, and twisted: the present and future treated as if they belong to an ancient archeological site. In a new series of weavings made from plastic bags and construction debris netting, she continues her investigations of labor, craft, and the material evidence of time, while considering the knowledge, mythologies, and forms of communication that we inherit from past civilizations and reiterate to the next.
Artist Allyson Vieira lives and works in New York. She is currently Assistant Professor of Foundations at the Corcoran School of Art at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She has exhibited extensively both internationally and in the U.S., including institutional projects at Kunsthalle Basel, Swiss Institute, Storm King Art Center, PinchukArtCentre, Non-Objectif Sud, Frieze Projects, The Public Art Fund, The Highline, and SculptureCenter. Her first major catalog, Allyson Vieira: The Plural Present, was published by Karma Books in 2016. Her book of interviews with Greek master marble carvers, On the Rock: The Acropolis Interviews, for which she was the recipient of grants from the Graham Foundation, the Henry Moore Foundation, and FLACC, is now available from Soberscove Press.
