"An Evening With" Series 2021: Featured Presentations from Notable Photographers - Aug 25

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The Los Angeles Center of Photography is thrilled to present another online series of events, An Evening With: Featured Presentations from Notable Photographers. This ongoing series, normally programmed on the last Wednesday of each month, will feature online presentations from notable guest photographers aimed to educate, enrich and inspire. Attendees will have a chance to ask questions at the end of each presentation.

Chapter 11 – Wednesday, August 25, 5 pm PST

Holly Roberts; moderated by TBA

Holly Roberts

Holly Roberts’ first national exposure came in 1989 with the publication of the monograph, Holly Roberts, from the Untitled Series published by the Friends of Photography. Although her work has always been based on the photograph, it was the inclusion of paint that made it so distinct. As David Featherstone says in his introduction, “Roberts is a painter, yet it is the photograph underlying the paint, even when it can scarcely be seen, that gives the work its intriguing, mysterious power. Drawing from the iconography of primitive art, particularly that of the Native American, Mexican and Hispanic cultures of the Southwest, where she lives, she creates paintings that address a broad range of human emotions. While it is Roberts’ evolving interaction with the photograph that takes her to her finished work, it is the existence of the underlying photographic image—even when it is obscured by paint—that gives the work its powerful qualities and sets up the emotional challenge for the viewer”.

Her work has continued to evolve, but she has reversed her original process of heavily overpainting the black and white silver print. She now works on top of a painted surface, developing a narrative scene with collaged photographic elements. Where earlier pieces reflected psychological or emotional undercurrents, newer works make use of familiar or iconic stories to address tougher questions about man’s effect on the land and the animals that inhabit it.

Awarded two NEA individual artist’s grants, as well as the Ferguson Grant from the friends of Photography, Roberts work has been shown extensively both internationally and nationally. Nazraeli Press published Holly Roberts: Works 1989-1999, and in 2009 Holly Roberts: Works 2000-2009. The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts published an extensive catalog of her work in 2018 to go with her retrospective at the Museum. A dedicated teacher as well as a prolific artist, she has had a profound effect on a community of artists around the country. She continues to live and work in the Southwest.
 
 
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 27, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Shamayim; moderated by Todd Felderstein
Wednesday, February 24, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Sandro Miller; moderated by Mark Edward Harris
Thursday, April 1, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Carlos Javier Ortiz; moderated by Sarah Hadley
Wednesday, April 28, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Mitch Dobrowner; moderated by Stephen Schafer
Wednesday, May 26, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Marjorie Salvaterra; moderated by Aline Smithson
Wednesday, June 30, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman; moderated by Aline Smithson
Wednesday, July 28, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Ken Light; moderated by Peter Bennett
Wednesday, August 25, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Holly Roberts; moderated by TBA
Wednesday, October 27, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Hiroshi Watanabee; moderated by TBA
Wednesday, December 29, 5-6:30 pm, PST – Yvonne Venegas; moderated by TBA

Online Learning via Zoom

This series will be taught online via Zoom software/application. Each segment will run about 90 minutes with a portion of the time spent on Q&A from the audience. FREE for LACP Members, $10 for Non-Members.

A link for the Zoom meeting will be emailed to the attendees about one week prior to the start date. Please read the instructions included in the email. If you have additional questions please contact Kevin Weinstein or Janis McGavin at info@lacphoto.org.