Tuesday, February 6, 7:00pm – 8:00pm

Art Talk Tuesday is a monthly conversation that invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it. This month features visual artist Karen Lofgren.

Art Talk Tuesday is a monthly conversation that invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it, followed by a moderated Q&A with Brand staff member, artist and writer Jennifer Remenchik. Art Talk Tuesday artists are selected to reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area.

Karen Lofgren is a Los Angeles-based, Canadian visual artist, whose feminist and decolonial research centers on the living world: ritual, history, medicine, and how our cultural systems connect to other wild systems. Lofgren’s practice uses academic research as a basis from which to dream radically in an artistic context and to interpret the research on a subconscious level to address the epistemic crisis of reason: searching for a new language to interpret the world and knowledge itself. The type of experimental and eco-feminist research practice she engages in looks at the relative youth of our species and the very brief history of written knowledge, when considered in astronomical, biological, or geological time. It tries to tap into information held in the cells of the body to make new forms and to arrive at new approaches and expand western epistemology at a moment its most needed. Lofgren’s first monograph: emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living was published by Set Margins’ press in 2023. She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, 2019 Pollock-Krasner Grantee, was Fulbright Core Scholar at UAL, Central St. Martins College in 2017/2018, and is currently supported by a grant from Canada Council for the Arts.

Art Talk Tuesday is sponsored by the Brand Associates.

For more information on Art Talk Tuesday and the other programs in the Spring 2024 series, please visit our website: https://www.brandlibrary.org/art-talk-tuesday

Image: Artist portrait by Shayan Ashgarnia, 2022; What is to Cure, installation view in “Brave New Worlds” at Palm Springs Art Museum, 2019. Photo by Lance Gerber.

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at 818-548-2051 or send us an email at info@brandlibrary.org.