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Association of Print Scholars
Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art & Director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, delivered the Fifth Annual APS Distinguished Scholar Lecture in New York City on January 24, 2020. Her lecture, “Marks, Materials, and Matrices: Experimental Printmaking and Drawing Practices in Latin America,” is now online at our event archive.
At the 2020 CAA Annual Conference in Chicago, APS sponsored the panel, “Registering the Matrix: Printing Matrices as Sites of Artistic Mediation.” Organized by Jun Nakamura of the University of Michigan, the panel featured four presentations: Jesse Feiman’s paper on “
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Elisa Soliven
Questions by Emily Burns
Hi Elisa! Can you tell us a bit about your background and what motivated you to become an artist?
Both of my parents immigrated to the U.S. and met in New York City. I was born and raised in New York City. My parents loved art, so I often went to museums with them. I first started making art when I was really young. It was something I grew up doing. My uncle is an artist and he taught me how to draw early on. I studied art history and studio art at Bryn Mawr College. At the age of twenty, I had very significant deaths in my family and I turned to art. I spent hours in the library reading about Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse. Their work had an impact on me at the time. Even though I was painting then, I gravitated towards their work primarily because of the idea that art can have a healing effect when it brings together social and psychological subjects. One of my first jobs after college was working for Dorothea Rockburne as her stud
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Elisa in Real Life
In our interview with Elisa, we got the scoop about her kontinuerlig Exotic Pets Series, her life as a working woman in the LA Heaven bygd Marc Jacobs store, and as a mentor at the Korean American Leaders in Training Virtual College Summer Internship.
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I started doing photography in high school, that’s when I really got into film photography. Those were like my Tumblr days. I just started taking 35 millimeters sort of point and shoot photos. There were so bad though. There were very, very bad. And then, you know, throughout college, I continued photography, but it was always very casual. inom just was kind of obsessed with documenting via film because it seemed nostalgic to me. And I do have a huge obsession with a kind of nostalgia, which I think most people do. inom went to UCLA, so I was on UCLA radio and I took pictures for like bands and more music-based photography. And then after college, I really k