Event overview
An art installation by the New York painter Leah Durner
The exhibition 'Leah Durner works on gallery ephemera' is on view in conjunction with the workshop Economics & the Plastic Arts (4-5 July, Goldsmiths) organised by Goldsmiths' Institute of Management Studies and funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation.
Leah Durner is an artist who lives in New York. Durner began working on gallery ephemera – announcement cards, brochures, etc. – in 2009 at a time when low funds and her own inventiveness caused her to look around for new substrates on which to paint. Using these physical scraps – and the already existing colours, images, and text printed on the ephemera as compositional elements – the final works address the ambiguous relationships between figure/ground, luxury/precarity, copyright/commons, decision/chance.
Durner will also be chairing the panel ‘Colours, Patterns and Reality’ as part of Economics & the Plastic Arts, an interdisciplinary workshop that will explore the evolving nature of art, and how this can relate and inform the way we understand economics.
Image credit: Leah Durner, Untitled (Tyson.HauserWirth.2019.B), 2019, enamel on gallery announcement card for Keith Tyson Life Still exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, 22 May – 7 September 2019, 10 ¼ x 7 7/8 in 26 x 20 cm.
FOR MORE on Leah Durner's work and her engagements with art and economics see Jorella Andrews and Leah Durner, Painting, Largesse, and Life: A Conversation with Leah Durner (Artist Proof), 2019.
Leah Durner Publication (Artist Proof)
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Jul 2019 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm | |
| 4 Jul 2019 | 9:00am - 7:30pm | |
| 5 Jul 2019 | 9:00am - 8:00pm |
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