As part of an ongoing series of in-gallery talks with artists featured in the current exhibition Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Twin Cities–based artists Melba Price and Wing Young Huie discuss their approaches to making portraits through painting and photography, respectively, in our contemporary moment.
How Can Familiar Themes in Art History Spark Unexpected Encounters in the Gallery?
"What might one expect a landscape to look like? What do interiors reveal about the artist or about contemporary life? What constitutes a portrait?"Siri Engberg, curator of the exhibition Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, shares how she and her colleagues came up with an unexpected approach to presenting contemporary art through the lens of five familiar art historical themes.
How Can Sound Change the Way We Experience Visual Art?
Can hearing particular sounds affect the way we see things? LA sound designer Joseph Fraioli worked with the Walker to consider this question, creating sonic backdrops for paintings in the exhibition Five Ways In: Themes from the Permanent Collection by Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, and Caroline Kent. Here he shares audio of the soundscapes and discusses the project.
JoAnn Verburg on Newspapers as Portals to the Political
"The personal and the political are intertwined and inseparable." JoAnn Verburg discusses her use of newspapers—usually printed at life-size and read by her husband—in photographs that are both intimate and incisive, including Terrorized (2006) and WTC (2003), the latter of which is featured in the exhibition Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection.
