Gallery Talk with Alex Callender and Anna Arabindan-Kesson; American Lawn

Join us on Sunday, February 23 at 12 PM as we mark the opening weekend of American Lawn with a conversation with artist Alex Callender and art scholar Anna Arabindan-Kesson.

Callender and Arabindan-Kesson will discuss American Lawn, which explores ongoing questions of public and private space, haunted vegetation, and the legacies of settler land management in our current era of climate devastation. Often situated close to the foreground, the lawn becomes a stage or interstitial space, filled with historical remnants, overgrowth, and folds of blue plastic tarpaulin signifying a project abandoned and not yet finished, or perhaps, not yet started. In these works, the lawn delineates a politics of middle distance — it is neither foreground nor background, you stand on it and walk in between it, only sometimes thinking about the kinds of erasure to which the space bears witness.

The event is free and open to the public.

Immediately before this talk is a gallery walk with Soft as Earth artists, starting at 11 AM. We hope you can join us for both for a morning getting to experience ArtYard’s new exhibitions and delving into artists’ creative process.