Art Talks: Detour | Anne Wu, Amie Cunat | An Artist Dialogue Series Event

Date and Time
December 17, 2016
Event Details

FREE—The Corner Room doors open at 2:00 p.m.

Artist Amie Cunat joins Anne Wu in a dialogue about Wu's site-specific Art in the Windows installation titled Detour. Following a presentation of the artist’s recent work, they discuss the pieces on view in the library’s North and South window vitrines and converse about process, materials, and the way in which painting and sculpture intersect with the urban environment.

Anne Wu, Detour 1, detail, 26 x 44 x 18 inches, wire, plaster, Flashe, acrylic, 2016.
Anne Wu, Detour, detail, 26 x 44 x 18 inches, wire, plaster, Flashe, acrylic, 2016

Anne Wu was born in New York City and grew up in Fujian, China and Queens, New York, where she currently lives and works. The artist graduated with a BFA from Cornell University in 2013, where she received the Faculty Medal of Art and the Post Baccalaureate Award. In 2015, she was a participant in the Bruce High Quality Foundation University’s Emerging Artist Residency Program. Her work has been exhibited in Biennial Bound at 67, New York; Happy Hour at BHQFU/FUG, New York; Transparent Critique at NADA New York; and Balustrade at Public Address, New York. 

Amie Cunat is a Japanese-American raised in McHenry, IL. She earned a BA in Visual Art and Art History from Fordham University, a Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from Cornell University. Her recent New York exhibitions include Hideout at The Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Moon Nets, Alphabet Letters at Outside (MA), Clue, Cue at Foley Gallery Window Installation, Blood and Sand at Mountain, Oysters with Lemon at Ventana 244, and Octopi Koen at The Cooper Union. Cunat has participated in the Guttenberg Arts Space and Time Artist Residency, New Jersey; The Artist-Teacher Residency at Cooper Union, New York; The Parsons Paris Artist Residency, Paris, France; and AIRY Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan. With her partner Piotr Chizinski, Cunat co-founded Public Address, a project space for emerging artists. Cunat is Adjunct Faculty of Painting and Drawing at Fordham University. She lives and works in New York, NY.

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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