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Columbia University - Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts Columbia University 615 West 129th Street

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Date

Nov 23 2024
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Time

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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Wallach Gallery Talks: Marie Lorenz and Anthony Papa

Join us for a series of informal half-hour talks by artists and writers focusing on works in the Shifting Shorelines exhibition.

Saturday, November 23 at 1:00pm: Marie Lorenz

Marie Lorenz is a New York-based artist whose work is rooted in the exploration and narrative of New York City’s waterfronts. Jet Ski (2024) is a recent work that is included in the Shifting Shorelines exhibition. Solo exhibitions include Waterways, at the Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, Vermont; Tide and Current Taxi, and at the Rib Gallery in Rotterdam. Her exhibition, Confluence is currently on view at Le 19, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain in Montbéliard, France. She is the recipient of many awards and residencies, including the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Marie Lorenz is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery where her exhibition TILT DRIFT is currently on view.

 

Saturday, November 23 at 2:00pm: Anthony Papa

Anthony Papa is an artist, writer, and advocate against the war on drugs. His art has been exhibited widely, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Wallach Gallery’s Shifting Shorelines exhibition. Papa served twelve years of a fifteen-to-life sentence for a nonviolent drug crime in New York State. In 1996 he received clemency from Governor George Pataki. In 2016 he received a pardon from Governor Andrew Cuomo and became the forest person in New York State History to receive both clemency and a pardon. Anthony Papa is the author of 15 to Life: How I Painted My Way to Freedom (2004) and This Side of Freedom: Life After Clemency (2016).

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