photo_talks: What Moves You?
Eileen Quinlan
Eileen Quinlan is an artist living and working in New York who will talk about her project “Dune Woman” that furthers her exploration of different regimes of image production — from the digital to the analogue, the downloaded to the photographed. Reflecting on Kobo Abe’s existential novel Woman in the Dunes, she considers the accumulation of domestic labor in Sisyphean terms – like encroaching sand, it threatens annihilation. Quinlan’s nudes were born of a desire to continue making art under the time-constrained circumstances of new motherhood. As her world shrank, her bathroom became a studio and the glass shower wall acts as both a limit and an imaging surface where her abstracted body is rendered.
Kai McBride leads the conversation and Q&A after the presentation.
Eileen Quinlan is an artist living and working in New York who explores the material boundaries of the photographic process and its personal and conceptual implications. Recent exhibitions include “What is a Photograph?” at the International Center of Photography, New York; “New Photography 2013,” Museum of Modern Art, New York; “My Eyes Can Only Look at You,” The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston; and “After Hours,” Campoli Presti, London. Her work is also in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, and Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, among others.
eileenquinlan.com/
Kai McBride is a photographer, musician, teacher, and avid cyclist who recently uprooted from Brooklyn to sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent the last ten years teaching photography and managing the photo facilities at Columbia University, his alma mater, where he received an MFA in 2008.
Born on the island of Kauai in 1972, by his 18th birthday Kai had lived in California, Oregon, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Texas, Oahu, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He sharpened his powers of observation while adjusting to life between suburban ranch-style homes, cabins with no running water, and a 20-foot teepee in the field of a commune.
His photographs have been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions, and are held in public and private collections. His first monograph, About Face: Picturing Tampa, was published by SPQR Editions in Fall 2016.
Kai teaches black and white photography, photobooks, and more for StrudelmediaLive.
