Artist Talk: Amy Elkins

Join us for a virtual artist talk with “Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana” exhibiting artist Amy Elkins.

Amy Elkins is a visual artist currently based in California.  She works in photography,  installation and sculpture and has spent the past fifteen years researching, creating and exhibiting work that explores the multifaceted nature of masculine identity as well as the psychological and sociological impacts of incarceration.  Most recently Elkins’ work pivots to explore notions of self as well as her family’s deeply rooted and complex history in Southern California as an 8th generation born on Tongva land in the greater Los Angeles area.  Her approach is series-based, steeped in research and oscillates between formal, conceptual and documentary.

Elkins has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally, including at The High Museum of Art; South Bend Museum of Art; MSU Broad Museum; Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; North Carolina Museum of Art and more.  Her photographs have been published in Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, New York Times, New Yorker and Vice among many others.   Her first book Black is the Day, Black is the Night won the 2017 Lucie Independent Book Award. It was shortlisted for the 2017 Mack First Book Award and the 2016 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Prize as well as listed as one of the Best Photobooks of 2016 by TIME, Humble Arts Foundation, Photobook Store Magazine and Photo-Eye.  Her second book Anxious Pleasures will be released later this Spring.

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