About this Event
Join us for the third edition of the Arion Press Artist Talks bringing artists and writers into public dialogue.
Painter and visual artist Vincent Valdez will appear in conversation with award-winning novelist Joyce Carol Oates about the artistic potential of boxing. The conversation will explore why both artist and novelist turned to the "sweet science of bruising" for fertile creative ground. Valdez reimagined the "Stations of the Cross" as a boxing narrative in his series Stations and depicted scenes from Muhammad Ali's funeral in his series of monumental paintings Dream Baby Dream. Oates wrote a classic testament to the "sweet science of bruising" in her best-selling collection of boxing essay On Boxing.
Reception at 5:30 pm. Talk starts at 6:30 pm.
Masking is encouraged.
The Arion Artist Talks are a new series of public events made possible by the generous support of Agnes Gund.
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Vincent Valdez was born in 1977 in San Antonio. Valdez received a full scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design, earning his BFA in 2000, and is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant as well as residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Kunstlerhaus Bethania Berlin Residency. Valdez is most recognized for his monumental portrayal of the contemporary figure. His drawn and painted subjects remark on a universal struggle within various socio-political arenas and eras. His work is included in exhibitions and collections such as the Ford Foundation, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery, among others. Valdez currently lives and works in Houston.
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arion Press / Grabhorn Institute, 1802 Hays Street, San Francisco, United States
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