Golnar Adili Artist Talk
Co-hosted with Center for Book Arts
February 25, 2022 6:00pm–7:30pm ET
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CUE Art Foundation is excited to partner with the Center for Book Arts to present a virtual talk with artist Golnar Adili, in conversation with writers Sarah Burney and Emily Chun. Adili is concurrently exhibiting at both CUE and CBA. Found in Translation: A Story of Language, Play, and a Personal Archive is on view at CUE through February 26, and Father Gave Water/Baabaa Aab Daad is on view at CBA through March 26.
Golnar Adili is a mixed media artist, educator, and designer with a focus on diasporic identity. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Michigan and has attended residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation for the Arts (Bellagio, Italy), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (MA), MacDowell Colony (NYC), Ucross Foundation for the Arts (Clearmont, WY), Lower East Side Printshop (NYC), Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY), and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace (NYC), among others. Adili has shown her work internationally; venues include: the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), NURTUREart (Brooklyn, NY), Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA), and International Print Center New York (NYC). She has received several grants, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, NYFA Fellowship in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books, and the Jerome Hill Finalist Grant. Adili is a Jameel Prize finalist. Her artist books are in several collections, including the Library of Congress, Rutgers University, Yale University, and University of Michigan.
In addition to her exhibition at CUE, Adili’s work is on view at Center for Book Arts (28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor) in Father Gave Water/Baabaa Aab Daad: An Homage to Childhood, Persia, and Process, January 14 – March 26, 2022.
Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA) is a New York-based artist who transforms materials of cultural and personal significance into sculptures, site-specific installations, and sound-based performances. His work acknowledges the complex, shared histories of the broader American experience, steeped in generational memories. A selection of recent exhibitions, installations, and performances include Prospect.5, New Orleans (2021); Performa 2021 Biennial, New York, NY; The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (2021); Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, NY (2021), A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa (2020); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2018-2019); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, Morningside Park, NY (2016). Beasley’s work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Tate, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; among others.
Emily Chun is a Korean-American art writer based in New York. She has written for various publications such as the Brooklyn Rail, ArtAsiaPacific, and Ocula, and has contributed to curatorial projects at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Tufts University Art Galleries. You can write to her at emilyechun@gmail.com or find her on Instagram at @emchun.
Sarah Burney (she/her/hers) is a writer, curator, and independent arts worker based in New York. Raised in Kuwait and Pakistan, Burney is a specialist of contemporary printmaking and contemporary art from South Asia and the Middle East. She is interested in exploring artists’ materials and processes and diversifying discussions in contemporary art. Her writing and curatorial work is informed by her professional experience which spans a range of spaces in the field— from the studio of established artist Zarina, to the community printmaking studio Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW), to feminist art collectives South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) and the Guerrilla Girls. Burney also has extensive experience in the commercial sphere and has collaborated with and managed projects for Bodhi Art (NY), Gallery Espace (India), The Multiple Store (UK), and Letternoon.com (NY).
Center for Book Arts promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object. Founded in 1974, Center for Book Arts (CBA) is the oldest non profit dedicated to uplifting and furthering the book arts & book art through education, preservation, exhibition, and community building. The book arts and book art inherently democratize the powerful media of the book by empowering people to harness the format independent from the exclusive industry of commercial publishing.