On the occasion of her solo exhibition "Under the Sun," Elizabeth Hazan will have a conversation with painter and critic Alexi Worth on Wednesday, February 7 at 530pm.
Hazan was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has twice been a resident of Yaddo. Recent shows include High Noon, at the Duck Creek Art Center in Springs, NY, Heat Wave at Johannes Vogt Gallery, NY, Body to Land at Turn Gallery, NY, Psychedelic Landscape at Eric Firestone Gallery, NY, Sundown at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack, NY and Trodden Path at HESSE FLATOW East. Her work has been written about in Hyperallergic, Forbes, Two Coats of Paint, Art Critical, The Brooklyn Rail and The Art Newspaper. She was born and raised in New York City and attended Bryn Mawr College and the New York Studio School. She serves as the director and founder of Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY.
Alexi Worth is a painter and critic. He has received awards from the Guggenheim and Tiffany Foundations, and is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York. Since the late 1990s, Worth has written about art for The New Yorker, Artforum, Art in America, Cabinet, and other magazines. He has written catalog essays for artists such as Carroll Dunham, Jasper Johns, and Jackie Saccoccio. Worth has taught at various MFA programs, and is currently a Senior Critic at the New York Academy in Tribeca. Born and raised in New York City, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the architect Erika Belsey, and their two sons.
February 7 at 530pm
HESSE FLATOW
508 West 26th Street, Suite 5G
New York, NY 10001
This event is free and open to the public.