Presentations will take place via the video conferencing app ZOOM. Please register in advance in order to access the program.
In conversation with curator Moss, multidisciplinary artists Natalia García Clark and Hugo Crosthwaite will talk about their artistic processes as learning experiences. García Clark will share her thoughts on the importance of making art without fully comprehending ideas, while at the same time, exercising critical thought and responsibility when contributing to various imaginaries through culture creation. Crosthwaite will discuss the creation of personal and social narratives through an improvised artistic practice. Themes that will be discussed include the construction of Mexican representation, genres in art history, conceptual art, failure, freedom, and DIY methods of production.
Presented by Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture, National Portrait Gallery; Natalia García Clark and Hugo Crosthwaite, artist
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.
Hugo Crosthwaite was born in Tijuana and spent his formative years in Rosarito, Mexico. An American citizen with family on both sides of the border, he graduated from San Diego State University in 1997 with a BA in Applied Arts. Crosthwaite lives and works in San Diego, CA and Rosarito, Mexico. Crosthwaite is the 2019 winner of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. His works are included in the permanent collections across the country.
Natalia García Clark is a Mexican artist who lives and works between Mexico City and Los Angeles, USA. Her work finds simple ways of putting into play existential and political ideas that fall somewhere between inner experiences, poems, social commentaries, and experimental jokes. She mostly works with new and time-based media. Since earning a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2018, Natalia’s work has been exhibited internationally, at museums in the United States, England, Mexico and South America. In 2019, she received a Commended Artist award by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for her video piece, Self-Portrait, which is currently touring the United States as part of the exhibit The Outwin: American Portraiture Today.
