Join us for a tour of contemporary artist Mary Weatherford's studio, led by the artist.
Mary Weatherford lives and works in Los Angeles. Born in Ojai, California, she earned a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.F.A. from the Milton Avery School of Fine Arts at Bard College, and was a Helena Rubinstein Fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program. For more than three decades, Weatherford has expanded the possibilities for abstract painting, engaging with the medium's legacy from a feminist perspective while simultaneously grappling with the full breadth of her experience outside the studio. Often making work that evokes specific times, places, and memories, as well as cultural touchstones like novels and music, she employs abstraction as a means of exploring the world around her. Her inclusion of sculptural elements--including the working neon lights that appear in and around her recent paintings--provides an elusive and radical revision of gestural abstraction. Weatherford has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California (2014); Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University at Bakersfield, California (2012); and LAXART, Los Angeles (2012). She has been included in numerous survey and biennial exhibitions, including The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014). She is represented by David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles, and Gagosian Gallery.
Kindly note that no photography or social media-posting is permitted at this event.
Limited street parking available. Taxi, Uber, Lyft, and ride-shares are encouraged.
As this event has limited capacity, RSVPs will be confirmed via email should they be successful and are not guaranteed.