Join us for a conversation with Fresh Paint artist Neha Vedpathak on her exhibition Subtleism: Neha Vedpathak with Agnes Martin. She will be joined in conversation by author and Director of Content at the Museum of Modern Art, Prudence Peiffer and Laura Mott, Chief Curator, Cranbrook Art Museum.
Vedpathak’s works are in multiple private and public collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Art in Embassies for US Consulate, Madhya Pradesh State Art Museum, Bhopal, India; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, SnowmassVillage, CO; and Camac Art Centre, Marnay Sur Seine, France. Widely shown in the United State, Europe, India, and Singapore, she has been featured in multiple museums and institutions. Her solo exhibition, Time (Constant, Suspended, Collapsed, opened at the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI in 2021. Additional exhibitions include the Baker Museum, Naples, FL; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ; the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC; the Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL; the National Indo-American Museum, Chicago, IL; and the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts, Auburn, AL. Vedpathak has received numerous awards and residencies including the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO; the Kresge Foundation Gilda Snowden Award, Detroit, MI; the Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL; the Skopelos Foundation for the Arts, Greece; and the Camac Artist Residency, Marnay-sur-Seine, France. Vedpathak currently lives and maintains a studio in Detroit.
Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is Director of Content at MoMA, New York. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a Senior Editor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017, and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner in 2018. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Artforum, and Bookforum, among other publications. Her book THE SLIP: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever (2023) won the New York City Book Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Gotham Book Prize, shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biography, shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and appeared on Vanity Fair’s Favorite Books of the Year list.
For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the southern tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and inspirations to one another, they created a unique community for unbridled creative expression and experimentation, and the works they made at the Slip would go on to change the course of American art.
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