Capital City Arts Initiative Nevada Neighbors Talk: YOU ARE HERE
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Mon, 02/17/2014 - 5:16pm
Event Date:
February 19, 2014 - 7:00pm On Wednesday, February 19, the Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] will present a talk by artist Julia Schwadron. Her illustrated talk, “You Are Here” is the next in CCAI’s Nevada Neighbors series.
The talk will take place at 7pm at the BRIC, 108 E Proctor St, Carson City. There will be an informal reception for Ms. Schwadron preceding the event at 6:15pm. The presentation and reception are free, and the public is cordially invited.
Schwadron will discuss her art including the series of paintings titled YOU ARE HERE. These works recognize the traveler’s experience, and simultaneously question the idea of what is foreign or familiar across various kinds of boundaries. It is largely the gratitude and sheer amazement at the sights/sites of personal exploration and growth that YOU ARE HERE makes most powerfully visible.
Schwadron said: “This show develops a series of paintings I began before coming to Thailand, which are based on the covers of vintage Self-Help and Psychology books published in the West in the 1960s and 70s. Almost humorously consumed with ‘self-truths’, these books are part of a condition of modern Western culture by which we constantly attempt to know ourselves better. I thought it was even stranger to find these books in second-hand shops here, in English, left by tourists over the course of many years. I see these books as remnants left as western guidebooks for future travelers, or perhaps souvenirs of a more universal quest for meaning.”
As part of her CCAI visit, Ms. Schwadron will give her talk to art students and faculty at Dayton and Douglas high schools.
American artist Julia Schwadron has shown her work nationally as well as in Thailand. She has had recent solo exhibitions at HGallery Project Space in Bangkok, and at the Farnham Galleries at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. Schwadron was a Visiting Professor and Artist in Painting at Chiang Mai University from 2010 - 2011, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Iowa from 2007-2009. Schwadron earned a BA in Studio art from UC San Diego in 1998 and a MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in 2004. She currently lives and works in South Lake Tahoe, California with her husband and son.
The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered organization committed to the encouragement and support of artists and the arts and culture of Carson City and the surrounding region. The Initiative is committed to community building for the area's diverse adult and youth populations through art projects and exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and online projects.
The Carson City Library co-sponsors the Nevada Neighbors series with CCAI. The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] is funded in part by the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, City of Carson City, Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Bank Foundation, and John and Grace Naumann Foundation.
For additional information, please visit CCAI’s website at arts-initiative.org.
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