JOSIAH MCELHENY, Projection into Another Future (Heptagonal Antiprism), 2023, Unique panel painting with inlaid solid optical glass and sheet mirror interior, 28 1/8 x 28 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. (71 1/2 x 71 1/2 x 6 cm). Courtesy the artist.
Please join us for a conversation between artist Josiah McElheny and David Joselit, PhD on Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 2 PM at 52 Walker. This will be held in conjunction with Geometries for an Imagined Future, Josiah McElheny’s third solo exhibition with the gallery on view from November 2 – December 22, 2023.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
David Joselit is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor and Chair of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard. He is author of Infinite Regress: Marcel Duchamp 1910-1941 (MIT, 1998), American Art Since 1945 (Thames and Hudson, 2003), Feedback: Television Against Democracy (MIT, 2007), and After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012). He co-organized the exhibition, “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” which opened at the Brandhorst Museum in Munich in 2015. Joselit is an editor of the journal OCTOBER and writes regularly on contemporary art and culture. His Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (MIT Press 2020) won the Robert Motherwell Book award in 2021. His most recent book is Art's Properties (Princeton University Press, 2023).