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| "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life" |
6:00pm - Artspace 50 Orange St.
Doors Open
6:00pm - 6:30pm
"Living and Sustaining a Creative Life" for sale
6:30 - 7:30pm
Author and Artists from Smart Painting talk:
Sharon Louden, artist and author of "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life" will discuss her recently published collection of artist essays. The conversation will open with a discussion of the motivations behind the book, which looks at the question of "day/professional labor" and "artistic labor" as forces that are always in tension with one another. Following, contributing writers and artists Sharon Butler and Jay Davis' will read short exerpts from their contributions to Louden's text.
The conversation will open up to involve two of the artists featured in Smart Painting, the current exhibition at Artspace. Namely, Blake Shirley and Sharon Butler as well as the show's curator, John O'Donnell. Rather than host a routine Artist Talk, this conversation will provide an entrance point to discuss how everyday labor and ritual influences an artist's practice by manifesting in the material relationships at play in the artwork itself or informing an artists' process, conceptual toilings, psychological longings and overall sense of time.
We have invited multi-media artist Larissa Hall to join conversation to reflect on the video project she presented at CWOS 2013 which described the working conditions of artists who were also full time graphic designers, stay at home moms and waitresses, among other professions.
