Artist Talk
Please join us for an artist talk with Keely Orgeman, Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery and artist Julia Rooney, whose show SCREEN SHOT is currently on view at Jennifer Terzian Gallery. Rooney and Orgeman will discuss the influence digital technology has had on the medium of painting, from the perspective of artist and curator respectively—particularly in the age of social media and through the Covid-19 pandemic.
KEELY ORGEMAN is the Seymour H. Knox, Jr., Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Orgeman earned her doctorate at Boston University, where she curated the exhibition Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art for the BU Art Gallery in 2008. During her tenure at Yale, Orgeman organized the critically acclaimed 2017 exhibition Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light at the Gallery, which traveled to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, D.C. She recently completed a new installation of the galleries of modern European art and was part of the curatorial team for the exhibitions On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale (2021) and Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look (2022). She is currently working on an exhibition of historical portraits with the artist Mickalene Thomas, scheduled to open at the Gallery next fall.
JULIA ROONEY is a painter whose work explores the space between analogue and digital media, gesturing towards a world in which the two tenuously coexist. In 2021, her solo show @SomeHighTide featured a series of phone-sized paintings (2×2-inch), installed both physically at Arts+Leisure Gallery (New York, NY) and digitally on her eponymous Instagram account, which she intermittently reactivates for site-specific projects as an ongoing form of critique and inquiry on social media. She continued this research as a 2021-22 Happy and Bob Doran CT Artist in Residence through Yale University Art Gallery and Artspace New Haven, culminating in the group exhibition Footnotes and other embedded stories. Her ongoing series “paper paper”—made entirely of pulpified and re-formed newspapers—has been exhibited at The Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC, 2021); has had solo exhibitions at Kopeikin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA, 2019) and Real Eyes Gallery (Adams, MA, 2021); and is currently on long-term loan at The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut. Rooney has been awarded residencies and/or fellowships through The Studios at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), More Art’s Engaging Artists (New York, NY), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s SU CASA (New York, NY), Yale Prison Education Initiative (New Haven, CT), and the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). In 2022, she will be an Artist in Residence at The Joan Mitchell Center (New Orleans, LA). Rooney received her BA in Visual & Environmental Studies from Harvard College and her MFA in Painting from Yale School of Art.
The talk will begin at 3pm. RSVP to [email protected]
Jennifer Terzian Gallery
3BB South Street
Litchfield
