Working in a wide variety of materials, Lily Cox-Richard (VCUarts MFA ’08 and associate professor with Sculpture + Extended Media) makes sculpture and installations that engage with histories of labor, natural resources, the politics of viewership, and paths of resistance. In this talk, LCR will contextualize her current ICA exhibition, Disquiet in the Sand, within the framework of her ongoing creative practice.

Artist Bio:
Lily Cox-Richard (she/they/LCR) (b. 1979) is an associate professor of Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts. Her sculptures and installations take up details of cultural and material histories to explore porousness, energy exchange, and paths of resistance. Cox-Richard has been awarded an Artadia grant, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship in the University of Michigan’s Society of Fellows, and residencies at the Core Program, Millay Colony, RAIR Philadelphia, and the MacDowell Colony. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA), Yvonne (Guatemala City), Artpace (San Antonio, TX), Diverseworks (Houston, TX), Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York), and The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX).

Doors open 5 p.m., lecture 5:30-6:30 p.m. This is a hybrid event.

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