| « Turkish Poet Bejan Matur Reads @ Poetry Foundation | Helen Fielding Talks Bridget Jones for Trib Nation Presents: Printers Row » |
Events Wed Oct 16 2013
Artist Ann Hamilton Talks About Installing Words in Public Places
Ann Hamilton's words fill several libraries, but she's not primarily an author. The artist is known for plastering floors, walls, and other surfaces with fields of words and letters, and her work is on prominent display in the public libraries of San Francisco (in the form of old catalog cards overlaid with notes and drawings) and Seattle (where a wooden floor is carved with sentences from books in the collection).
On Thursday, October 17, at 7pm at the Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior, Hamilton will talk about where those words come from and how they function in the context of art with two highly appropriate panelists. Sculptor, painter, and installation artist Jessica Stockholder also tends to view surfaces as part blank page, part canvas. Chicago native Srikanth Reddy, on the other hand, is a poet, but one who arranges his words in visually arresting ways. Admission is free.
Photo © Fredrik Marsh/Jenny Fine.
