Artists Chat: Tawny Chatmon and Stephen Cities
Thursday, September 29 • 6-7pm
@ the Walters Art Museum
Be part of us for a series of talks that includes the artists in Activating the Renaissance, an exhibition that seeks to illustrate the connections involving the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods and present-day artwork, each individual giving insights into the other. In this 1st of a few interviews, artists Tawny Chatmon and Stephen Towns are in dialogue with Molly Warnock, historian and critic of the visible arts, and Joaneath Spicer, The James A. Murnaghan Curator of Renaissance and Baroque Art at the Walters. The speakers will explore themes in the exhibit and how every single artist attracts from the past to comment on the existing. This application was designed in conjunction with Activating the Renaissance, at the moment on look at at the Walters Art Museum by February 26.
About the Visitor Speakers:
Tawny Chatmon is a Tokyo-born pictures-based artist residing in Maryland. Her images are normally digitally intensified by exaggerating the hairstyles of her topics (who are usually her young children and other family members customers), lending them the eyes of anyone more mature and wiser, elongating their variety, and drawing inspiration from the Byzantine interval to signify value. Thereafter, she commonly combines overlapping digital collage and illustration. Right after refining and printing, she frequently experiments with many artwork methods by hand-embellishing with acrylic paint, 24-karat gold leaf, and elements this kind of as paper, semi-cherished stones, glass, and other blended media.
Stephen Cities is a Baltimore-based mostly painter and fiber artist whose do the job explores how American heritage influences modern day American culture. Originally from South Carolina, Towns received a Bachelor of Fine Art in painting from the College of South Carolina. His operate has been exhibited at The Smithsonian’s Countrywide Museum of African American Heritage and Culture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Artwork+ Exercise, The David C. Driskell Middle, Jack Shainman’s The Faculty Gallery, and The Walters Artwork Museum. His get the job done is in many public and non-public collections and has been highlighted in publications these as The New York Moments, American Craft Council Magazine, Forbes, Artforum, Cultured Magazine, and The Baltimore Solar.
Molly Warnock is an art author and editor centered in Baltimore. The creator of Simon Hantaï and the Reserves of Painting (Pennsylvania State College Press, 2020) and Penser la Peinture: Simon Hantaï (Gallimard, 2012), she has also printed extensively on factors of modern-day and modern artwork in journals like Artforum, Artwork in The us, Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Tate Papers, Journal of Modern Painting, and nonsite.org, as nicely as in various US and European exhibition catalogues. In addition, Warnock recently edited the a few inaugural volumes in the selection Transatlantique (ER Publishing), devoted to writings by and about present-day artists a fourth is underway. She holds a PhD in Mental Background and Historical past of Artwork from Johns Hopkins University, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Terra Basis for American Artwork, the Heart for Sophisticated Study in the Visible Arts, the American Council for Discovered Societies, the Clark Artwork Institute, and the NOMIS Foundation, amongst other institutions.
