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Library of Amorphous Matter and Octadic Beacon: A Discussion with the Artist & Curator July 14, 2021
In Library of Amorphous Matter, Curator, Leora Malt-Leca described how Jocelyne Prince considers the material properties of glass, an amorphous or noncrystalline solid that is the central protagonist of a fantastical library of cracks, drips and scars. Slide Library (2002-present), exhibited in the Redwood’s Rovensky Delivery...
Painting with Oil, Sculpting with Water: Per Barclay’s Material Politics July 10, 2019
This exhibition tour and lecture addressed Barclay's three bodies of artwork being shown at the Redwood in the context of the Ford Foundation funded initiative, Material Politics. How do Barclay's Oil House (2019); his glass house Untitled (2018), and his quartet of monumental photographs use...
Contemporary Art & the Weight of Memory: Pascale Marthine Tayou’s “Remember Bimbia” September 11, 2018
In a curator talk, Leora Maltz Leca discussed the Tayou's site-specific memorial for the Redwood, contextualizing his monument to global slavery in light of the larger memorial turn in contemporary art. What does this installation propose? How does it picture history? And what does it...
Material Politics, or the Unruly Substances of Contemporary Art June 27, 2018
Why have some of the most interesting contemporary artists working today abandoned the traditional materials of art to work with rubber, sugar, gold and oil, chalk, soap and shoelaces? Leora Maltz-Leca, Redwood’s Curator of Contemporary Projects explored how contemporary artists like Kader Attia and Pascale...
What is Global Contemporary Art? Summer 2017
The Redwood’s Contemporary Curator, Leora Maltz-Leca, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History at RISD, presented an in-depth analysis into the history of global contemporary art. When does contemporary art begin? What is its relationship to modern art? And to the post-modern? And the anti-modern...?...
Redwood Contemporary Arts Initiative, Curator: Leora Maltz-Leca
Leora Maltz-Leca is Professor of Contemporary Art, and Head of Theory and History of Art and Design at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. She is the author of William Kentridge: Process as Metaphor and Other Doubtful Enterprises (Univ. of California, 2018) and has written for Artforum, Frieze,...
