A Chilling Make Believe: Alexis Rockman on Grant Wood
Fri, Apr 6, 2018
6:30 pm
Grant Wood (1891–1942), Spring Turning, 1936. Oil on composition board, 18 1⁄4 x 40 1⁄8 in. (46.4 x 101.9 cm). Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; gift of Barbara B. Millhouse 1991.2.2. © Figge Art Museum, successors to the Estate of Nan Wood Graham/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Image courtesy Reynolda House Museum of American Art, affiliated with Wake Forest University
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This talk by artist Alexis Rockman (b. 1962) examines the romanticized and ambivalent view of a pre-industrial rural world in Grant Wood’s landscape paintings. In his talk, Rockman will situate Wood in a tradition of American art in which national identity depends on a personal visual vocabulary. The artist will also discuss his own longstanding engagement with Wood through landscape paintings that mix contemporary dread and hope for our ecological future.
Alexis Rockman is a New York-based painter. His exhibition Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle is currently on view at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
Tickets are required ($10 adults; $8 members, students, and seniors). Members: please log in to reserve tickets. This event will be livestreamed on YouTube.
