Panel Discussion: Contemporary Culture, Contemporary Art

February 28, 2020, 5:00-8:00 pm
Part of M&T Fourth Friday @ TriMain Center

Panelists: Jay Carrier, George Hughes, Jodi Lynn Maracle, and Sepideh Pourhang

This panel discussion will focus on the ways artists are influenced by the intersection of their cultural histories and contemporary experiences. Panelists include Jay Carrier, George Hughes, Jodi Lynn Maracle, and Sepideh Pourhang. This panel is taking place within Buffalo Arts Studio on Friday, February 28, 2020 from 5-8pm in tandem with Jay Carrier’s solo exhibition, “We Took Things with Us: A Collection of Recent Work”, on view at Buffalo Arts Studio from January 24-March 6, 2020.

Each of the panelists combine formal elements from their cultural heritage with mixed-media processes, producing artwork that is truly transnational. These artists ask the viewer to think across boundaries, challenging colonialism and its legacies. This discussion will also address the way(s) that artwork made by transnational artists is too often relegated to anthropologic sections of cultural institutions, suggesting that the art and artmakers exist only as relics of a “pre-American” past.