Verbal Description and Touch Tour with 2022 Biennial artist Lisa Alvarado Sat, July 30, 2022, 6:30–7:30 pm

Verbal Description and Touch Tour with 2022 Biennial artist Lisa Alvarado

Sat, July 30, 2022
6:30–7:30 pm

Access Masks required
A close up of a painting with a red, orange, white and black four point star in the right center of the image. This symbol is surrounded by four different zig zag patterns with flowing waves in orange and light blue to the upper right corner, red, pink and yellow to the lower right corner, forest green, fuschia, orange and neon greens to the lower left corner and a more geometric version in deep green, orange and blue to the right upper corner. This section of wavy zig zags and big star motif is encircled in a wavy circular shape which is surrounded by more blue and iridescent orange pointy outlines at the top that move off into flaming whirling waves that continue into parts of the piece not pictured here. The bottom section of the image continues the blue and iridescent outline in a wavy form with a rectangular shape on the bottom left. The bottom section is all black.
A close up of a painting with a red, orange, white and black four point star in the right center of the image. This symbol is surrounded by four different zig zag patterns with flowing waves in orange and light blue to the upper right corner, red, pink and yellow to the lower right corner, forest green, fuschia, orange and neon greens to the lower left corner and a more geometric version in deep green, orange and blue to the right upper corner. This section of wavy zig zags and big star motif is encircled in a wavy circular shape which is surrounded by more blue and iridescent orange pointy outlines at the top that move off into flaming whirling waves that continue into parts of the piece not pictured here. The bottom section of the image continues the blue and iridescent outline in a wavy form with a rectangular shape on the bottom left. The bottom section is all black.

Lisa Alvarado, a selection from the series Vibratory Cartography: Nepantla, 2021–22 (detail). Acrylic, ink, gouache, canvas, burlap, fringe, polyester, and wood, 82 × 90 in. (208.3 × 228.6 cm). Courtesy the artist; Bridget Donahue, New York; LC Queisser, Tbilisi; and The Modern Institute / Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

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Join us for an in-person Verbal Description and Touch Tour, followed by a sound performance by 2022 Biennial artist Lisa Alvarado and her band, Natural Information Society. 

Verbal Description and Touch Tour: 6:30–7:30 pm
Floor 5, Bluhm Kaufman Gallery

Sound Performance: 7:30–8:30 pm
Floor 3, Susan and John Hess Family Gallery and available online via livestream

Alvarado’s installation of suspended abstract paintings explores rhythm and pulse as forms of navigation. Her works in the Whitney Biennial consider the relationship between geography and the body in a moment of imbalance and transformation. In addition to creating visual art, Alvarado plays the harmonium in the band Natural Information Society led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joshua Abrams. Alvarado’s free-hanging paintings accompany the band’s performances to create a setting for shared experience. At this event, the artworks will be accessible through verbal description and touch objects.

Verbal Description and Touch Tours provide an opportunity for visitors who are Blind or have low vision to experience the richness and diversity of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American art through vivid description.

On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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Learn more at whitney.org/artport

On the Hour projects can contain motion and sound. To respect your accessibility settings autoplay is disabled.