Designed by Mark Nerys and Joanne Petit-Frère. Alt Text: A black-and-white gif logo featuring an iconographic drawing of a young woman’s face with changing hairstyles and accessories.
In this conversation, CultureHub Resident Curator Joanne Petit-Frère brings in graphic designer Mark Nerys to explore the interplay between both artists’ work. Petit-Frère and Nerys will explore the tensions between the intimate material qualities of hair & braiding, hand stitching & drawing, all against the commercial and industrial aesthetics present in consumer culture through the avatar of ‘Cora, a fictional traveler from NYC to PDX.
Themes to explore will include: economic empowerment, travel (without traveling), developing an avatar (‘Cora), reconstructing identity, intimacy through objects (both artistic and through objects like postcards), the impersonal nature of commercial objects, building (systems and structures/icons and iconography), and expression during a time of crisis (masks, signifiers of pandemic and street action fashion, and camp).
Joanne Petit-Frère is a Brooklyn-based textile and hair artist. She is archive director of JoGoesWest, an art production house delivering story-telling of hair based creations. Mark Nerys is a Portland-based artist and illustrator. He and Joanne met and began making work in Brooklyn, NY while both were students in 2006.
Joanne Petit-Frère is a CultureHub Resident Curator (2020-2021). Learn more about her work in the residency program here.
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
7pm EST / 4pm PST
Pay-what-you-can $0-unlimited