Texas Talks Art: Kara Springer in conversation with Max Fields
Tuesday, April 27 | 12PM
Held in conjunction with the Texas Talks Art programming series, this program will feature a conversation between Houston-based artist Kara Springer and FotoFest Associate Curator, Max Fields. The speakers will discuss Springer's research-based practice which examines relationships between body and armature, architecture and institutional and ideological power structures, and systemic oppression.
About the speakers
Max Fields is the Associate Curator and Director of Publishing at FotoFest. He has presented numerous exhibitions and has written for and overseen the production of multiple museum and gallery publications. Fields’s exhibitions and projects have been reviewed in publications such as Frieze, ArtForum, Art in America, and Aperture among others. Recent projects include Public Life: Distance and Diaspora (2020), African Cosmologies: Photography, Time, and the Other (with Mark Sealy, 2020), Gareth Long: Kidnappers Foil (2019-20), and The Color of Love with Julia Brown, Skylar Fein, and Peggy Ahwesh (2018). He is a recent graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Springer holds degrees from the University of Toronto, ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of the Bahamas, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts. She is an alum of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and currently holds a fellowship with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program.
About Texas Talks Art
Texas Talks Art is a multi-institutional initiative intended to both introduce the work of artists across the state of Texas to a wider audience and to foster collaboration between local non-profit arts organizations. Taking the form of virtual 30-minute lunchtime talks, the series features 50 Texas artists and artist collectives in conversation with 50 Texas curators beginning in January 2021 and continuing throughout the year. Texas Talks Art is built on a belief in the need to work collectively to support the remarkable and diverse community of artists living and working in Texas. The series features an intergenerational roster of artists working across mediums and at differing points in their careers. Texas Talks Art encourages dialogue between arts professionals and emphasizes the broad range of concerns and questions that animate Texas-based artists. Each free, virtual talk will take place on Tuesday at 12 p.m. CST and will be recorded and archived.
Image credit: Kara Springer, Untitled, (Oil, Houston Texas), 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
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