ARTalk:  Artwork Dialogues

Students have long copied artworks by the “masters” to practice techniques, digest principles of design, and ultimately, to develop their own style. Many go on to create homages to their artistic influences while others use recognizable visual quotation to extend, complicate, or critique an art historical conversation.

In this talk, the art historian and artist Laura Richard, Ph.D., will look at the different strategies of citation employed by the artists in Pairings & Echoes and then she will consider how one particular artist’s source material is itself part of an extended dialogue with the past—both distant and perhaps, surprisingly, more recent.

Program: 6:30-7:30pm
Reception: with Wine, Art Viewing and Conversation 6-6:30pm

Laura Richard is an art historian and artist whose work and teaching explore the politics of space, materiality, and performance. From 2012 to 2020 she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she was also director of the Low-Residency MFA Program (2015–18) and chair of the History and Theory of Contemporary Art Department (2018–20). Laura has been an instructor at Mills College, University of San Francisco, the Prison University Project at San Quentin, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley where she earned her PhD in the History of Art with a Designated Emphasis in Film in 2015.