Wednesday, March 4, 2015
4:30-5:30 PM
Room 125, Art Building

Our contemporary moment is saturated with imagery unmoored from time and context. Images in this environment blend and confuse; the paintings endeavor to express this transmutability of images. My paintings draw from found imagery and attempt to bring it into an active and precarious present. The work most often draws on two main sets of references: passages in canonical paintings, and contemporary photographic imagery. The resulting work seeks to contain a moment just before the images collapse.

Tiffany Calvert’s work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions including Lawrimore Project in Seattle, Visual Arts Gallery at SVA New York, Lisa Boyle Gallery in Chicago and The Lab in San Francisco. She has been a recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship and residencies at the ArtOmi International Arts Center (NY) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (CA). In 2010 she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. After living in San Francisco, Chicago and Brooklyn, she is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Reed College in Portland, OR.