Yale Center for British Art, News Letter Update April 12, 2023

The museum is currently closed for building conservation. Visit our website for project updates, online programs, and collections access!

AT HOME: ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION Holly Hendry Friday, April 14, 12–1 pm Online    Holly Hendry talks with Phillip Edward Spradley, cultural producer. Hendry will discuss her interest in and approaches to sculpture within the public realm, as well as her recent outdoor commissions, upcoming projects, and current studio workings.  Born in 1990 in London, Hendry is a British artist whose site-responsive sculptures and installations are concerned with what lives beneath the surface, from hidden underground spaces to the interior workings of the body. Her sculptures look at the back of things: cross-sections and open cracks through which you see the gooey insides. Hendry addresses ideas of permeability and morbidity through a visual language charged with cartoonish wit. Her works deal with the internal and the external in terms of the body, display, and production, revealing what would otherwise be hidden. Casting is central to Hendry’s process, in which she uses an array of materials, including charcoal, foam, grit, lipstick, soap, steel, and Jesmonite (a composite material). REGISTER TODAY! UPCOMING PROGRAMS Please visit our website to see a full list of upcoming events and exhibitions! at home: Artists in Conversation | Katy Moran Monday, April 17, 12–1 pm Online    Katy Moran joins Carmen Juliá, curator, Spike Island Art Centre, Bristol, in conversation.  Moran is a contemporary artist known for her powerful and evocative abstract paintings. Her work explores color, composition, and gesture and sometimes suggests landscape, portraiture, or still life.  Art in Context | “Valuable subjects for the painter” Tuesday, April 18, 12:30–1 pm Online    In this illustrated talk, John McAleer will draw on the unrivaled riches of the YCBA collection, particularly the watercolors of Samuel Davis, to consider what images produced during the heyday of the East India Company tell us about the link between images and empire, pictures, and power.  Isokon Symposium April 20–21, 2023 Online A pioneer in its approach to materials, marketing, and design, Isokon Ltd was instrumental in introducing functional modernism to England between the wars.  This online symposium will explore Isokon within the systems of manufacturing, media, and collective living that underpinned modernist practice in the 1930s.  at home: Artists in Conversation | Anthea Hamilton Friday, April 28, 12–1 pm Online    Anthea Hamilton in conversation with Sally Tallant, president and executive director, Queens Museum, Queens, NY Hamilton is a British artist known for creating large-scale installations and surreal artworks. Hamilton’s approach combines archival study, popular culture, and scientific research.  CLOSURE NOTICE The museum is closed for building conservation.    On-site access to the Archives, collections, Reference Library, and Study Room is by appointment.  Throughout the closure, the museum will maintain a robust schedule of online programming and off-site exhibitions. View our calendar for more information.

Image credits (top to bottom): Holly Hendry, photo by Nick Ballon, courtesy of Holly Hendry and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; Katy Moran, photo by Adrian Lourie; Samuel Davis (1757–1819), Man of War Moored in Harbor, Mountains in the Background, undated, watercolor, pen, and black ink, and graphite on paper, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection; Isokon Flats, Hampstead by Wells Coates 1934, photographed circa 1978 by Kenneth J. Gill (Wikimedia user: Gillfoto), Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0; Anthea Hamilton, photo by Adama Jalloh; Yale Center for British Art, photo by Ri #yalecenterforbritishart#fineartmagazinee#fineartfun