Studio Visit: Torkwase Dyson
Thurs, May 17, 2018
7 pm
Installation view of Between the Waters (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 9, 2018-). From left to right: Torkwase Dyson, Ramond (Water Table), 2017; Demian DinéYazhi’, Rez Dog, Rez Dirt, 2013; Demian DinéYazhi’, BURYING WHITE SUPREMACY, 2018. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
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Jersey City
Contemporaries and Contemporaries Patrons
Tour option 1: 7:00 pm
Tour option 2: 7:45 pm
Visit the Jersey City studio of Torkwase Dyson. An artist featured in the Whitney’s current exhibition Between the Waters, Dyson is a painter who works through multiple mediums to create a language that is both diagrammatic and expressive.
Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973) is a New Jersey-based artist whose work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, The Drawing Center, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, among others. She received an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Contemporaries and Contemporaries Patron members are invited to this event. To become a member or upgrade your membership, call (212) 570-3641. Space is limited, and location will be provided upon confirmed RSVP. Email contemporaries@whitney.org for more information.