Winter Speaker Series 2024: Caitlin Chaisson
February 10, 2024 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm At the Museum and Virtually on Vimeo
The Interdisciplinary Artist: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith has been challenging dominant narratives of art and history since the mid-1970s and is one of the most significant artists working today. Her interdisciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, and Smith’s influence reaches across the visual arts through her teaching, curating, and tireless advocacy. A citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Smith’s artwork is grounded in her upbringing and beliefs, inspiring dialogues around important issues of land, consumerism, governance, and Indigenous self-determination. In the spring of 2023, the Whitney organized its first ever major retrospective of an Indigenous artist, and Chaisson, a member of the curatorial team, will discuss the transformative power of Smith’s practice.
The lecture will be held in person at the Museum and virtually on Vimeo, and will be followed by audience Q&A and tea reception.
Lecture recording will be available to all subscribers and ticket holders.
About our Speaker
Caitlin Chaisson is a curator and critic. She recently curated The House Edge (2023) at The 8th Floor Gallery. Chaisson was the Curatorial Assistant for Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (2023) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Curatorial Research Fellow for Drawing in the Continuous Present (2022) and Fernanda Laguna: The Path of the Heart (2022) at The Drawing Center. Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, C Magazine, and frieze magazine, among others. She is currently a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Image: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Indian Drawing Lesson (after Leonardo), 1993. Oil, acrylic, paper, newspaper, fabric, pastel, and charcoal on canvas: two panels, 60 x 100 in. (152.4 x 254 cm) overall. Collection of the artist; courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York. © Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
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