Joan Mitchell, Untitled 1992
Katy Siegel: Lecture on Joan Mitchell
Celebrate the centennial of pioneering artist Joan Mitchell’s birth with a talk by art historian Katy Siegel examining two of Mitchell’s iconic works, Ici and Untitled 1992, which are on view at the Saint Louis Art Museum and Kemper Art Museum respectively.
“Untitled 1992” is featured in the exhibition “Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection” at the Kemper Art Museum. After the talk, enjoy a reception at the Kemper Art Museum and view the exhibition from 3:30-4:30 pm. Roundtrip bus transportation will be available between museums.
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Apr 15 at 5:30pm • Museum Lobby
Being and Becoming in Contemporary Chinese Art
This talk by Peggy Wang, associate professor of art history and Asian studies at Bowdoin College, addresses the conflicting pressures that artists in China confronted during the 1990s and early 2000s, including rapid urbanization and cultural globalization. Even as they navigated political constraints and deficits in resources, contemporary artists enacted productive strategies for making and exhibiting their art. This lecture foregrounds artists’ assertions of being and becoming, both as critical tactics for configuring identity and generative topics unto themselves. Wang will particularly examine how artists studied the vibrant dynamics of change through temporal, historical, and material dimensions in their art.
This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Looking Back Toward the Future: Contemporary Photography from China, on view at the Kemper Art Museum from February 27 to July 27, 2026.
Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series