Thomas Glassford
dal 13/4/2009 al 13/4/2009
Segnalato da
13/4/2009
Thomas Glassford
The Americas Society, New York
Vis-a-vis Series: Dialogues between Artists and Critics from the Western Hemisphere
Mexico City based artist Thomas Glassford's objects and large-scale projects are distinguished for their engagement with the layered materiality of the modern urban milieu. Often located in politically charged spaces Glassford's public projects forge a relationship between the artist's interest in the history of our materiality and definite physical places. In so doing, Glassford transforms sites coded with violence, suturing their wounds or giving them new skin. These exquisite corpses establish the conditions for a new functionality without eviscerating memory or fetishizing trauma. Glassford will discuss the process of working with the politics of place with the Art Historian Mary Coffey (Assistant Professor,Dartmouth University).