SNAP! An Night with Kris Graves

Join us for the CCP’s inaugural “SNAP!” (Social Night of Art and Photography!) adopted by a lecture by photographer Kris Graves. Graves’s photographic work is within the CCP’s assortment, and one if his pictures is featured in Picture Party: Celebrating the Collection at 50.

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
SNAP! – Social Night of Art and Photography!
An off-the-cuff, social mixer within the CCP foyer previous to night’s lecture. There might be gentle fare, mushy drinks, and art-related actions.

5:30 – 6:30pm.
Lecture: Kris Graves “A Chronology of Contemporary Nightmares”
Following the social hour, Kris Graves will current a lecture within the CCP auditorium. He will talk about how panorama structure within the United States exemplifies the nation’s cultural and political points, in addition to displays the lives of these trapped inside the beliefs of the American Dream.

RSVP hyperlink coming quickly.

Kris Graves (b. 1982 New York, NY) is an artist and writer based mostly in New York and California. Graves creates paintings that offers with societal issues and goals to make use of artwork as a method to tell folks about cultural points. Using a mixture of conceptual and documentary practices, Graves pictures the subtleties of societal energy and its influence on the constructed surroundings. He explores how capitalism and energy have formed international locations — and the way that may be seen and skilled in on a regular basis life. Graves additionally works to raise the illustration of individuals of colour within the advantageous artwork canon; and to create alternatives for dialog about race, illustration, and concrete life. He pictures to protect reminiscence.

Graves acquired his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been revealed and exhibited globally, together with Museum of Modern Art, New York; Getty Institute, Los Angeles; and National Portrait Gallery in London, England; amongst others. Permanent collections embody the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Institute, Schomburg Center, Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Brooklyn Museum; and The Wedge Collection, Toronto; amongst others. Graves additionally sits on the board of Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland; and The Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Photography.