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Talk and Book Signing | Mel Kendrick and Nancy Princenthal on Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things
In the Lichtenstein Theater
December 2, 2022, 6 pm - 7 pm
Free with Museum admission
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Join us for a conversation with artist Mel Kendrick and Nancy Princenthal, in conjunction with his solo exhibition, Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things, currently on view through February 19, 2023. Princenthal contributed an introductory essay to the fully illustrated catalogue, co-published and distributed by Rizzoli International.
Introduced by Corinne Erni, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, the conversation will explore Kendrick’s decades-long career, approach to artmaking, process and material, and the possibilities of sculpture, followed by a short book signing for the exhibition publication.
Nancy Princenthal is a Brooklyn-based writer whose Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson, 2015) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Her most recent book is Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (Thames & Hudson, 2019). She is also the author of the monograph Hannah Wilke(Prestel, 2010). A former Senior Editor of Art in America, where she remains a Contributing Editor, she has also written for the New York Times, Bomb, Hyperallergic, Apollo, the Brooklyn Rail and other publications. Her writing has appeared in monographs and exhibition catalogues for a wide range of artists, including Willie Cole, Lesley Dill, Ann Hamilton, Alfredo Jaar and Gary Simmons. Having taught and lectured widely, she was a longtime faculty member of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, and was most recently a visiting lecturer at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts and curated by Allison Kemmerer, The Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director. The presentation at the Parrish Art Museum is organized by Corinne Erni, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, with additional support from Kaitlin Halloran, Curatorial Assistant and Publications Coordinator and Brianna L. Hernández, Curatorial Fellow.
Learn more about the exhibition.
Advance ticket purchase with pre-event registration is recommended. Limited tickets will be available at the door. All sales are final, non-transferable, and non-refundable.
Friday Nights at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor:
Additional support provided by Weill Cornell Medicine – Southampton and The Corcoran Group
Talk and Book Signing | Mel Kendrick and Nancy Princenthal on Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things
In the Lichtenstein Theater
December 2, 2022, 6 pm - 7 pm
Free with Museum admission
REGISTER
Join us for a conversation with artist Mel Kendrick and Nancy Princenthal, in conjunction with his solo exhibition, Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things, currently on view through February 19, 2023. Princenthal contributed an introductory essay to the fully illustrated catalogue, co-published and distributed by Rizzoli International.
Introduced by Corinne Erni, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, the conversation will explore Kendrick’s decades-long career, approach to artmaking, process and material, and the possibilities of sculpture, followed by a short book signing for the exhibition publication.
Nancy Princenthal is a Brooklyn-based writer whose Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (Thames & Hudson, 2015) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. Her most recent book is Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (Thames & Hudson, 2019). She is also the author of the monograph Hannah Wilke(Prestel, 2010). A former Senior Editor of Art in America, where she remains a Contributing Editor, she has also written for the New York Times, Bomb, Hyperallergic, Apollo, the Brooklyn Rail and other publications. Her writing has appeared in monographs and exhibition catalogues for a wide range of artists, including Willie Cole, Lesley Dill, Ann Hamilton, Alfredo Jaar and Gary Simmons. Having taught and lectured widely, she was a longtime faculty member of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, and was most recently a visiting lecturer at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Mel Kendrick: Seeing Things in Things was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts and curated by Allison Kemmerer, The Mary Stripp and R. Crosby Kemper Director. The presentation at the Parrish Art Museum is organized by Corinne Erni, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of ArtsReach and Special Projects, with additional support from Kaitlin Halloran, Curatorial Assistant and Publications Coordinator and Brianna L. Hernández, Curatorial Fellow.
Learn more about the exhibition.
Advance ticket purchase with pre-event registration is recommended. Limited tickets will be available at the door. All sales are final, non-transferable, and non-refundable.
Friday Nights at the Parrish are made possible, in part, by Presenting Sponsor:
Additional support provided by Weill Cornell Medicine – Southampton and The Corcoran Group
