Howardena Pindell: On the Performance of Autobiography (Interview Only)
Description:
Over the course of nearly six decades, groundbreaking multidisciplinary artist Howardena Pindell has radically expanded the medium of painting and transformed the language of abstraction. The first of only three videos in the artist’s body of work, Pindell’s "Free, White and 21" (12:15 min, 1980) marks a turn toward more overt autobiographical content in her practice. Watch the artist and National Portrait Gallery curator Charlotte Ickes in conversation with Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Beckwith and Cassel Oliver co-organized the 2018 exhibition Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen, the first major survey of Pindell’s work. Viewfinder: Women’s Film and Video from the Smithsonian is a monthly virtual screening and conversation series sponsored by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story. More: https://womenshistory.si.edu/events/viewfinder
Video Duration:
53 min 9 sec
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