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Refractions: Tom Lloyd, Light Art, and Speculative Art HistoriesDescription
Art Historian Krista Thompson discusses the work of Tom Lloyd, an African American artist who was among the first wave working with light and electronic technologies in the 1960s. Despite his early centrality in the mainstream New York art world at the time, scant archival and material traces remain of his work. Exploring Lloyd’s art and activism, his interest in archives, and the futures of art history, Thompson proposes in this talk a more expansive definition of art and art historical methodologies. Speaker
Krista Thompson is the Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. She is author of several publications, most recently Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice (2015), and received the Charles Rufus Morey Award for distinguished book in the history of art from the College Art Association in 2016. Her articles have appeared in American Art, Art Bulletin, and Art Journal, among other publications. |
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