Artist Gallery Talks and Panel: Joaquin Trujillo, Nicole Miller, Mildred Howard, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Artist Gallery Talks: Joaquin Trujillo, Nicole Miller, Mildred Howard and Njideka Akunyili Crosby
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Join four artists from the exhibition as they tell the stories behind their works and engage with issues of identity and representation. Meet in the 2nd Floor Salon, site of Mickalene Thomas’s latest living room installation, Between Ourselves Again (2015).

Artist Panel: Joaquin Trujillo, Nicole Miller, Mildred Howard, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby with Exhibition Co-Curators Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins and Caitlin Haskell
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Exhibition artists and curators discuss what it means to make a portrait, exploring the range and breadth of visual-cultural sources that inform both individual artists’ practices and the exhibition as a whole.

Joaquin Trujillo is a Mexican-born photographer whose work represents a vibrant and strong Mexican heritage and tradition. Images depicting flowers, dancers, and children all reference Trujillo’s personal experiences and serve to reconstruct his childhood.

Nicole Miller is a Los Angeles-based artist whose films and installations are used as a platform for self-representation and self-presentation. Through her work the relationship between the reality and preconceptions of identity are explored.

Mildred Howard, Bay Area native, is known for her installations and mixed media projects. Significant historical and cultural weight is present throughout her work as experiences with racism, injustice, love, compassion, and pride are depicted.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a Nigerian-born painter who uses her artistry to reconcile cultural exchange between Nigeria and America. Her work is visually textured, engaging, and critical as it navigates her two cultural realities and speaks to larger themes of cultural adjustment, loss, reconciliation, and transformation.

Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins is a freelance curator, writer, art historian and lecturer. She has been curating and lecturing domestically and internationally for over twenty-five years.

Caitlin Haskell is assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA. Her interests range broadly across the field of modern and contemporary art.