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Kazuko Miyamoto: A Symposium
japansociety.org/events/kazuko-miyamoto-a-symposium
Saturday, July 9, 2-5 pm
Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Kazuko Miyamoto: To perform a line (exhibition now extended through July 24), this half-day symposium on the artist features an interdisciplinary group of artists, curators and scholars. Each speaker will discuss an important perspective on Kazuko Miyamoto’s innovative practice over the past five decades. Topics include feminism in the arts, close readings of specific works, the New York avant-garde, and the role of collaboration and community in artistic practice. The closing panel will reflect on the themes and ideas that have emerged from the earlier presentations as well as broaden the conversation to engage with contemporary matters and practices.
Kazuko Miyamoto: To perform a line—the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition—traces the conceptual complexity and visual range of an artist who has challenged and broadened the legacy of post-1960s international art. Miyamoto was born in Tokyo in 1942, and has lived and worked in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood since 1964. From 1968, the artist responded to and critiqued the innovations of Minimalism by emphasizing a handmade process and performance. Her involvement as an early member of New York’s A.I.R. (Artists in Residence) Gallery, the first all-female collective in the United States, and the establishment of her own Gallery Onetwentyeight in 1986, underscore the importance of feminism, collaboration and community in her practice.
Speakers
Elise Armani, art historian
Roxana Fabius, Executive Director of A.I.R. Gallery
Leon Ransmeier, exhibition designer and founder of Ransmeier, Inc.
Barbara Stehle, curator, and art historian
Kunie Sugiura, artist
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Kazuko Miyamoto: A Symposium
japansociety.org/events/kazuko-miyamoto-a-symposium
Saturday, July 9, 2-5 pm
Held in conjunction with the exhibition, Kazuko Miyamoto: To perform a line (exhibition now extended through July 24), this half-day symposium on the artist features an interdisciplinary group of artists, curators and scholars. Each speaker will discuss an important perspective on Kazuko Miyamoto’s innovative practice over the past five decades. Topics include feminism in the arts, close readings of specific works, the New York avant-garde, and the role of collaboration and community in artistic practice. The closing panel will reflect on the themes and ideas that have emerged from the earlier presentations as well as broaden the conversation to engage with contemporary matters and practices.
Kazuko Miyamoto: To perform a line—the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition—traces the conceptual complexity and visual range of an artist who has challenged and broadened the legacy of post-1960s international art. Miyamoto was born in Tokyo in 1942, and has lived and worked in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood since 1964. From 1968, the artist responded to and critiqued the innovations of Minimalism by emphasizing a handmade process and performance. Her involvement as an early member of New York’s A.I.R. (Artists in Residence) Gallery, the first all-female collective in the United States, and the establishment of her own Gallery Onetwentyeight in 1986, underscore the importance of feminism, collaboration and community in her practice.
Speakers
Elise Armani, art historian
Roxana Fabius, Executive Director of A.I.R. Gallery
Leon Ransmeier, exhibition designer and founder of Ransmeier, Inc.
Barbara Stehle, curator, and art historian
Kunie Sugiura, artist
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