Art Talks: The Upper Worlds | Sue Willis, Joel Werring | An Artist Dialogue Series Event

FREE — The Corner Room doors open at 2 PM. 

Artist, academic and Guggenheim Fellow Joel Werring joins Sue Willis to converse about her site-specific Art in the Corner Room and Art in the Windows exhibitions. The event begins with a presentation by Sue Willis.

Sue Willis is an artist born in Chicago and lives and works in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She is currently an Associate Professor at The Fashion Institute of Technology. She has also taught at New York University, Pratt Institute, The Parsons School of Design, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and their Oxbow Residency Program. Her concepts address the necessity of our communion with Earth and life-sustaining habitats, and propose our evolution toward this end through our collective psychic journey. Her work has widely been exhibited. The reviews of her work can be found in several publications including L'Huffington Post Italia, The Dodo, Oubliette Magazine and NHK Tokyo.

Joel Werring is an American artist whose paintings and mixed media pieces explore the ways in which the past and its attendant memories can have a physical presence in our lives. Working from a personal archive of photographs, old movie stills, song lyrics, dreams, his own children's drawings, and satellite images of neighborhoods he lived in as a child, he creates narrative works that blend personal memory, cultural history, and collective mythology. Joel Werring received his Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice from the University of California at Berkeley and his Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art. In 2003, he received the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting. He has taught extensively, and is currently Chair of the Fine Arts Department at FIT/ State University of New York. He lives and paints in Redding, Connecticut.

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, Artist Dialogues Series provide an open forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.

 The event is free and advanced registration is recommended. 

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