Artists on Artists: Sara Cwynar

Join artist Sara Cwynar and independent curator Jenn Jackson as they discuss intersecting ideas and ways of making that speak across artistic generations.

In response to the current exhibitions Vikky Alexander: Extreme Beauty and Robert Rauschenberg 1965-1980, Cwynar and Jackson consider the power of media in contemporary life and the role of art in subverting familiar images and subject matter. Cwynar will also discuss the work of Vikky Alexander and Robert Rauschenberg in relation to her own photographs and films, now on view in Sara Cwynar: Gilded Age II at The Polygon Gallery.

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About the Speakers

Sara Cwynar is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Beginning and ending with photographs, her process involves collecting, archiving and presenting transitory visual material. Cwynar’s collages reference the staggering proliferation of images in today’s culture. Outmoded technologies and studio staging converge with digital artefacts and imagined futures, creating kaleidoscopic tableaus displaced in time. Cwynar holds an MFA from Yale University and a Bachelor of Design from York University. She has exhibited internationally, and her artist book Kitsch Encyclopedia was published by Blonde Art Books in 2014. Cwynar is represented by Cooper Cole, Toronto, and Foxy Production, New York.

Jenn Jackson is an independent curator and writer based in Vancouver. She previously held curatorial and public program positions at Alberta College of Art and Design, Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre, Presentation House Gallery, and Alberta Art Gallery. She has written for magazines and catalogues, including C Magazine, The Capilano Review, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Centre A, and Piet Zwart Institute. she completed her undergraduate studies at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and she has an MA in Art History from the University of British Columbia. Through her cultural work, she is committed to engaging with artistic practices which involve activism, community building and the sustained development of independent networks.