Artist Talk: Leslie Robison & Mike Taylor (Virtual)

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Speaker/Lecture Academic Arts & Entertainment Cultural Virtual

Tue, Sep 8, 2020

5 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Please join us for an artist talk with Leslie Robison, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Art, and Mike Taylor on the occasion of CEAM's exhibition "The Nameless Now: NEFL Artists Respond." Robison and Taylor have a collaborative artist book included in the exhibition, which speaks to the current political, social, and cultural moment.

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Person Woman Man Camera TV is a 24 page book, screen printed and bound by hand in an edition of 20, with drawings by Mike Taylor and calligraphy by Leslie Robison.

It began in March of 2020 as Mike Taylor's quarantine journal. Donald Trump provided maddening and contradictory non-leadership during the COVID 19 crisis and subsequent economic disaster. His daily attempts to engage the media provided a well of strange and disjointed source material for Leslie Robison's experiments with calligraphy. The two artists began pairing image with text to produce a dark and hilarious chronicle of the pandemic, a national uprising, and the public implosion of an autocracy viewed through the two way mirror of the internet, as we isolated for our lives.

Artist's Bios:
Leslie Robison is interested in breaking down the language, symbols, and actions that define power in various relationships and within such institutions as art, politics, and academia. Mixed media drawing and performance become the means of investigating these structures. Whether they be drawn or knitted, scribbled or written as words, the lines in these drawings, paintings, and installations confound direct communication even as they reference the traditional language of art. By also examining her participation in these systems, the artist is simultaneously critical, questioning, and self-mocking.

Mike Taylor is a painter, book artist, screen printer and mess maker who lives and works in Florida. Perhaps best known for his drawings, his books are exhibited widely and his paintings are exhibited very narrowly.