Mark Armijo McKnight in Conversation with Garth Greenwell
Thurs, Oct 24, 2024
6:30 pm
Mark Armijo McKnight, The Black Place (ii), 2024. Gelatin silver print, 48 x 60 in. (121.9 x 152.4 cm). Courtesy the artist. © Mark Armijo McKnight
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In his vivid black-and-white images of nude bodies, harsh landscapes, and the interplay between them, Mark Armijo McKnight explores the dualities of darkness and light, isolation and togetherness, and an “intentional undoing of the self” using the language of Modernist photography. For this conversation, Armijo McKnight invites writer Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016), Cleanness (FSG, 2020), and Small Rain (FSG, 2024) to discuss the throughlines and reciprocal influences between their respective practices. The conversation will explore their shared interests, from the French philosopher Simone Weil’s writings on beauty to the ways their friendship has influenced their understandings of poetics, visual arts, opera, and more. The conversation is moderated by Drew Sawyer, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
After the program, attendees will have special access to the exhibition Mark Armijo McKnight: Decreation while the museum is closed to the public.
