Vincent Valdez, Rise, 2019. Oil on canvas. © Vincent Valdez 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photo: Paul Salveson.
Vincent Valdez, Rise, 2019. Oil on canvas. © Vincent Valdez 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photo: Paul Salveson.
Vincent Valdez: In Conversation
1:30 pm–2:30 pm
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Artist Vincent Valdez is recognized for his monumental portrayal of the contemporary figure. His drawn and painted subjects reveal narratives of struggles within the margins of American history. He aims to help us remember, stating, “My aim is to incite public remembrance and to impede distorted realities that I witness, like the social amnesia that surrounds me.”
In conversation with “Philip Guston Now” guest curator Terence Washington, Valdez describes Guston’s influence and speaks as Guston’s peer among artists working to bear witness to the complexities of American life.
Vincent Valdez, artist
Terence Washington, guest curator, “Philip Guston Now”
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Sponsors
“Philip Guston Now” is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Generously supported by Musa and Thomas Mayer and The Guston Foundation, the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation, the Bafflin Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, Lisbeth Tarlow and Stephen Kay, Marilyn and Charles Baillie, Martin S. Kaplan and Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, Michael Nesbitt, Phil Lind, and an anonymous donor. With gratitude to the Council for Canadian American Relations. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.