The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill presents a recorded conversation with Museum Director Kelly Taxter and Sheree Hovsepian, who is among the 40 artists featured in the museum’s new exhibition “Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950–2020,” opening May 2.
In her conversation with Taxter on Friday, April 30, 5 PM, Hovsepian will discuss her use of film-based cameras, light-sensitive paper, objects, and the human body to produce her acclaimed assemblage.
Hovsepian’s work highlights the physicality of the photograph and photography’s relationship to the human body. Coaxed into sculptural forms, layered with tactile materials, and assembled into larger compositions, her pictures oscillate between object and image, creating a sensuous, bodily experience of the photographic document.
The artist’s work is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Bronx Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem, among others.
The program is free; advance registration required at parrishart.org.