Lectures and Talks

Artists on Artists: Vanessa Brown and Tom Hsu on Cindy Sherman

Tue Nov 26, 2019 | 7 PM

1st Floor

Cindy Sherman

Untitled Film Still #15, 1978

silver gelatin print

Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures, New York

Join us for a tour of the exhibition Cindy Sherman with Vancouver-based artists Vanessa Brown and Tom Hsu. Together, they will offer close readings and unique insight into Cindy Sherman’s work, with special consideration to the lasting influence of her practice on the medium of photography, image-making and the ideas of subject and illusionism.

Vanessa Brown is an artist who works in sculpture and installation.  Primarily working in steel, she is interested in challenging the medium’s historical associations with industry, war and monument by focusing on its subtler qualities, such as pliability, versatility and slightness. The imagery in her work draws on various sources including landscapes, historical crafts, recurring symbols from her dreams, feminized labour, gestures of comfort and ideas of escape. Brown graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2013, and was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award.

Tom Hsu is a visual artist who uses photography of the everyday to investigate the curious condition of space. Hsu sees the camera as a double-edge device which allows him to share but also to hide. He currently lives and works in Vancouver and holds a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design.