Zoe Crosher

Oct 8, 11:07 am

Jens Hoffmann and Zoe Crosher at UCR ARTSblock this Saturday

More American Photographs: Jens Hoffmann
1pm Sat, Oct 12
Culver Screening Room
Free and open to the public

Jens Hoffmann, curator of More American Photographs, will discuss the exhibition and his innovative approach to curating. He will be joined in conversation by Joanna Szupinska-Myers, Curator of Exhibitions at the California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock. The talk will be followed with a reception celebrating the exhibition.

Jens Hoffmann has curated more than 40 exhibitions worldwide and written over 200 texts on art and exhibition-making since the late 1990s. Since 2012 he has been Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum in New York where he oversees exhibitions, collections, and public programs. In 2007-12 he was Director at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, where he organized More American Photographs among other exhibitions. He was Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2002-06.

images: Dorothea Lange, Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California, 1936. Courtesy the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Katy Grannan, Untitled, Bakersfield, California, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

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CMP Projects: Zoe Crosher
4pm Sat, Oct 12
Culver Screening Room
Free and open to the public

Zoe Crosher, whose exhibition The Further Disbanding of Michelle duBoisis currently on view at the California Museum of Photography, will speak about her artistic practice.

Zoe Crosher was born in 1975 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Crosher uses photography as a starting point to explore and examine the fiction of documentary and the materiality of the archive. Through re-photography and ever-evolving iterations of both photographic and publication-based work, she pursues a practice that is conceptual in orientation yet rooted in vernacular representation, provoking an ambiguity that highlights the strategies and structures of fantasy as much as it exposes anything concrete. In addition to exhibiting, Crosher makes publications centered on her practice. Out the Window (LAX) (Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 2007), examines space and transience around the Los Angeles airport, and a recently published four-volume book series created with Aperture Ideas examines her most recent work, The Michelle duBois Project. She has taught at UCLA and Art Center College of Design, and was Associate Editor of the journal Afterall after receiving her MFA from CalArts. In 2011 she was awarded the prestigious Art Here and Now Award by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is a recent recipient of the Rauschenberg award. Her work was included in MoMA’s 2012 New Photography exhibition as well as numerous other exhibitions throughout the United States.

image: Zoe Crosher, The Re-duBois Show, 2013. Installation view (detail).