ARTalk: Finding Meaning in Form

Jodi Roberts is Executive Director of MarinMOCA in San Rafael. Her curatorial career started at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She then came to California as the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Curator for Modern & Contemporary Art at Stanford University’s Cantor Art Center.

In her current role, Jodi is overseeing an explosion of dynamic cross-cultural events at MarinMOCA – solidifying partnerships and collaborations in the arts with the goal of making Marin a renowned arts destination.

With a Ph.D. in Art History from New York University, Jodi brings to this ARTalk a robust, scholarly overview of some of the pioneering ideas that established abstraction as a lingua franca of modern and contemporary art. Together, we’ll dive into the conceptual frameworks that made abstraction feel viable in the early 20th century and explore how those audacious early experiments inspired new generations. Get ready for both close looks at past masters such as Wassily Kandinsky, Aleksander Rodchenko, Joan Miro, and Jackson Pollock, and more as well as a discussion of how such models continue to inspire.

Executive Director of MarinMOCA, Jodi Roberts, will discuss non-representational art, look back to give a 20th century context and then forward, by linking it to the contemporary works of Interpretations: Color, Line, Form exhibit.