Guild Hall in East Hampton continues its online program Ring The Alarm with a conversation between Renee Cox and Shinique Smith.
The series, which began in 2020, is inspired by an upcoming Guild Hall exhibition of Black artists that Renee Cox, a new member of Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts, will be co-curating for the summer of 2023. Previous conversations with Cox — which have included artists Derrick Adams and Sanford Biggers — focused on empowerment, the Black experience, and issues of contemporary life.
Cox — who lives and works in Manhattan and Amagansett — has displayed work at venues including Tate Liverpool, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Harvard University, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
“I am very touched and honored to be part of the Guild Hall Academy. I look forward to a great year of conversations on Ring the Alarm, exposing the museum to a wider and more diverse audience,” said Cox.
Smith is a Los Angeles-based painter and sculptor known for her monumental abstractions of calligraphy, textiles, and collages. Over the last twenty years, Smith has gleaned visual poetry from vintage clothing and explored concepts of ritual through tying, writing, and gestures inspired by her travels and her early graffiti roots in Baltimore.
“Guild Hall is very excited to present this first installment of Ring the Alarm for 2021,” said Christina Strassfield, the museum’s director and chief curator. “We believe now more than ever that the need for open dialogue on art, race, and politics is timely and something that we as a community at large need to engage in more.”
The series of conversations will continue, leading up to the 2023 exhibit.
The program is free and will be held on Zoom on Friday, March 5, at 6 PM. For more info and to register, visit www.guildhall.org.