Mattering: Life, Art, and Materiality / February 29

The Dedalus Foundation and Hunter College Department of Art and Art History present “Mattering: Life, Art, and Materiality” at the Roosevelt House. Celebrated art historian and 2018 Robert Motherwell Book Award recipient Julia Bryan-Wilson has selected three recent Dedalus MFA Fellows for a free-ranging discussion of process and materiality. 

 

Artists Jessi Ali Lin (2020, University of Pennsylvania), Luis Emilio Romero (2023, CUNY, Hunter College), and Charisse Pearlina Weston (2019, University of California, Irvine), will each present their work. The evening will culminate with a group discussion moderated by Bryan-Wilson.

 

This event is free, however, due to limited capacity, registration is required.

 

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Julia Bryan-Wilson is Professor of Contemporary art and LGBTQ+ Studies at Columbia University. She is also Curator-at-Large at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, where she is working on the forthcoming exhibition entitled Queer Histories. Her books include the recently published Louise Nevelson’s Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (2023) and Fray: Art and Textile Politics, which won the ASAP Book Prize, the Frank Jewett Mather Award, and the Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation.  

 

Jessi Ali Lin is an artist working with and through sculpture, video, performance, and embodiment. Her work exploits the notion of positionality both in terms of physical position and the multivalence of identity. Lin’s multifaceted practice examines the relationships between the performance of the self, its fragmented nature, and its location within the social and built environment.

Lin holds a MFA in interdisciplinary art from the University of Pennsylvania. She has received awards and fellowships from the Dedalus Foundation and Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been exhibited at Hong-gah Museum, Taipei; EFA Project Space, New York; IceBox Project Space, Philadelphia; and Dixon Place, New York. Her video works have been shown at international film festivals, including 25FPS in Zagreb, Croatia; Kassel Documetary Film and Video Festival; Beijing International Short Film Festival; Bideodromo Experimental Film and Video Festival in Bilbao; and Saigon Experimental Film Festival. Recent projects include residencies at SOMA Mexico, RAIR in Philadelphia, 18th Street Art Center in New York, and an upcoming solo exhibition at MoCA Taipei.

 

Charisse Pearlina Weston is a conceptual artist and writer whose work engages with the dynamic interplay of violence and intimacy through repetition, enfoldment, and concealment. Weston received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of California-Irvine in 2019. She is an alumna of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program.

Weston was named a Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence in 2022–23, a 2023 Jerome Hill Fellow, and a 2023 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Project Row Houses, Recess, the Moody Center of the Arts at Rice University, and the Queens Museum. She has received awards and fellowships from Artadia Fund for the Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dedalus Foundation, the Harpo Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the Corning Museum of Glass, and Creative Capital, among others. She was a 2021 Artist Fellow at the Museum of Art and Design, where she was also awarded the 2021 Burke Prize. She was a Paul and Irene Hollister Fields of the Future Fellow at Bard Graduate Center in 2022. She will be featured in the 2024 Whitney Biennial.