Friday, May 20 at 6:30 PM.
Meet in the lobby of A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY
This lecture and participatory workshop by artist Tatiana Istomina is co-produced with A.I.R. Gallery and will focus on the role of imagery in the construction of knowledge. Istomina’s presentation will analyze how different kinds of images function in mathematics and the natural sciences, in art and art history, as well as in personal experience, wherein crucial individual and social insights are born out of close, often intimate encounters with pictures. Istomina’s lecture will be followed by a workshop in which participants will discuss and interpret a pool of crowdsourced images. We will work together to assemble a pictorial apparatus, generating a particular version of reality.
Tatiana Istomina is a Russian-born artist and writer based in New York. Her practice includes painting, sculpture, installation, film, and text. Her projects have been featured in exhibitions and screenings across the US and abroad at venues including Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, the Bronx Museum, Gaîté Lyrique, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Istomina is a recipient of several awards including the AAF Prize for Fine Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Chenven Foundation grant, the Puffin Foundation grant and the Spillways Fellowship, and worked at multiple residencies, such as Yaddo, the Core program, the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions and Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands). Istomina holds a PhD in physics from Yale University and an MFA from Parsons New School.
This event is co-produced by A.I.R. Gallery and Triangle Arts Association and presented on the occasion of Tatiana Istomina’s solo exhibition, Flight Mechanics, on view at A.I.R. Gallery through May 22, 2022.