Contemporary Art Fridays

Join SDMA on Friday afternoons for a new series of programs highlighting contemporary art at the Museum. For more information on the programs below, please contact Erica Overskei at eoverskei@sdmart.org or (619) 696-1955.

Panel Discussion on the Art of Eleanor Antin
October 17, Friday
2:00 p.m., Joan & Irwin Jacobs Theater, Museum of Photographic Arts
Free

Learn more about the art of conceptual artist Eleanor Antin, featured in SDMA’s exhibition Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes. Panelists will examine and discuss Antin’s work, her impact on the art world, her use of photography in relationship to movie representations of the ancient world and its myths, and her use of fiction in providing a better understanding of contemporary social realities.

The panel will be moderated by Betti-Sue Hertz, SDMA Curator of Contemporary Art; speakers include Jori Finkel, Los Angeles-based art critic and journalist and frequent contributor to The New York Times; Henry Sayre, distinguished author and professor of art history at Oregon State University-Cascades; Lisa Bloom, author and visiting professor at UCSD; and Lori Pauli, associate curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Canada.

My Barbarian
October 17, Friday
7:30 p.m., UCSD Mandeville Recital Hall
$5 members and students/$7 nonmembers

My Barbarian is a Los Angeles-based performance collective founded in 2000 by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade. The trio creates and performs site-specific plays, musical concerts, theatrical situations, and video installations that explore contemporary political challenges by playing out allegorical narratives drawn from history and mythology. My Barbarian has been heavily influenced by the performative aspects of Eleanor Antin’s work and her practice of using imagined personas and scenarios to comment on reality.