Presentations will take place via the video conferencing app ZOOM. Please register in advance in order to access the program.
In this talk, 2019 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition finalists Nekisha Durrett and Julianne Wallace Sterling will discuss the inspiration behind, and the process of creating, works that are currently on view in The Outwin: American Portraiture Today. Although distinct in many ways, Durrett’s James Baldwin and Sterling’s Specialist Murphy are both striking, graphic portraits that foreground their subject’s faces and make clever use of negative space. Using different media and approaches, Durrett and Sterling create portraits with presence, honoring the courageous achievements of the people they depict. The conversation will be facilitated by Maggie North, Curator of Art at the Springfield Museums.
Presented by Maggie North, curator of art; Julianne Wallace Sterling and Nekisha Durrett, artists
Artists featured in the current special exhibition The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, organized by the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. The competition and exhibition are made possible through generous support from the Virginia Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Endowment.
The exhibit sponsored locally by Freedom Credit Union and Health New England.
Image: Specialist Murphy, 2016, oil and graphite on wood by Julianne Wallace Sterling. Collection of the artist © Julianne Wallace Sterling.
