PLATFORM a CSU ConSortiUm Event
A Conversation with Artist Beatriz Cortez & Curator Erin Christovale
Date: September 24, 2020Time: 5:30pm to 6:45pm
Location: Live via Zoom
Beatriz Cortez, Tzolk'in I, 2018. Steel, motor, battery, timer, solar panel, acrylic, and lacquer marker. 132 x 64.5 x 64.5". Commissioned by Clockshop. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Scott Lynch, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY.
About the CSU ConSortiUm
The newly formed ConSortiUm, a collaborative project of art museums and galleries from the California State University (CSU) system, is pleased to announce a virtual event series that actively engages students, faculty, staff, and communities through visual arts-based dialogue. The inaugural program, PLATFORM, will launch in September 2020 and include six live virtual conversations with contemporary artists, collectives, and curators whose work is critical to current re-imaginings of the art world and the world at large.
All events will be presented live via Zoom with access for all CSU campuses. Recordings of the events will be available for post live-stream viewing and archived by the sponsoring institutions. These events are free and open to the public.
Event Info
The event will take place Thursday, September 24 at 5:30 p.m. and brings together artist Beatriz Cortez in conversation with curator Erin Christovale.
Event Registration is now Closed.
Close-captioned Event Recording Available Below.
About the Speakers
Beatriz Cortez
Beatriz Cortez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores simultaneity, life in different temporalities and versions of modernity, memory and loss in the aftermath of war and the experience of migration, and in relation to imagining possible futures.
She has had solo exhibitions at the Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles; Clockshop, Los Angeles; Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles; Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles; Centro Cultural de Espana de El Salvador; Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California; and Museo Municipal Tecleno, El Salvador. Her recent group exhibitions include In Plain Sight at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle; Candelilla, Coatlicue, and the Breathing Machine at Ballroom Marfa, in Texas; Unfolding Universes at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia; Utopian Imagination at the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York; Paroxysm of Sublime at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; Ingestion at TEORe/Tica in San Jose, Costa Rica; Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas at the Queens Museum, New York; and Chronos, Cosmos: Deep Time, Open Space at the Socrates Sculpture Park, New York. Cortez has received the Artadia Los Angeles Award (2020), Frieze LIFEWTR Inaugural Sculpture Prize (2019), Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant (2018), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2016), among others.
She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and a doctorate in Latin American Literature from Arizona State University. She teaches at California State University, Northridge. Beatriz Cortez is represented by Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.
Erin Christovale
Erin Christovale is the Associate Curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the co-founder of the experimental film program, Black Radical Imagination, with Amir George.
Exhibitions include a/wake in the water: Meditations on Disaster (2014) at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Memoirs of A Watermelon Woman (2016) and A Subtle Likeness (2016) at the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, and S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom (2016) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Made in L.A. (2018), the Hammer Museum's biennial with Anne Ellegood. Recent projects include solo presentations of artists Jamilah Sabur (2019), Ja'Tovia Gary (2020) and belonging (2019), a collection show responding to bell hook's collection of essays, Belonging: A Culture of Place, at the Hammer Museum.
Film programs include Black Radical Imagination (ongoing), Let It Be Known (2016) as part of Clockshop's, Radio Imagination, a series of programs and artist commissions exploring the legacy of Octavia E. Butler, ALTERNATE ENDINGS, RADICAL BEGINNINGS (2017) with Vivian Crockett as part of Visual AIDS' project, "A Day With(Out) Art", and Cosmic Mumbo Jumbo (2019) as part of Kadist Video Library Online Video Exhibition series.
About the Artwork
Tzolk'in I
Beatriz Cortez, Tzolk'in I, 2018. Steel, motor, battery, timer, solar panel, acrylic, and lacquer marker. 132 x 64.5 x 64.5 inches. Commissioned by Clockshop. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Photo Credit: Scott Lynch, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY.
Glacial Erratic
Beatriz Cortez. Glacial Erratic (north view daytime), 2020. Commissioned by Frieze LIFEWTR Sculpture Prize. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council. Steel. 9.5 x 9 x 7 feet. Photo: Casey Kelbaugh / Frieze.
Event Video Recording:
Artist Beatriz Cortez in conversation with Erin Christovale
Press Contact: Kelly Lindner
Galleries & Collections Curator
University Galleries, Sacramento State
kelly.lindner@csus.edu
CPP Campus Contact: Michele Cairella Fillmore
Galleries & Collections Curator
University Art Galleries & Collections, Cal Poly Pomona
michelec@cpp.edu
