Mar 14, 2022, 6 PM

Artist Walkthrough: Drawing in the Continuous Present

Javier Barrios, *Cypripedium estallido,* 2021. Pastel on paper, 18 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches (48 x 35 cm). Courtesy of the artist.

Join artists Javier Barrios, Maren Karlson, Julien Nguyen, Walter Price, Johanna Unzueta, and Associate Curator Rosario Güiraldes for an in-person walkthrough of Drawing in the Continuous Present.

Drawing in the Continuous Present explores how a new generation of artists is placing drawing at the center of contemporary art discourse by bringing together works on paper by some of today’s most significant artistic voices, including Barrios, Karlson, Nguyen, Unzueta, and Price. Each artist will discuss their practice and the role of drawing in art discourse today.

ASL interpreters will be available during this event.

Javier Barrios

Javier Barrios (b. 1989, Guadalajara, Mexico) lives and works in Mexico City. His solo exhibitions have appeared at the Art and Culture Center, Hollywood (2021); LADRÓNgalería, Mexico City (2017); Páramo, Guadalajara (2017); and Fundación Calosa, Mexico City (2017). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca (2021); N.A.S.A.L., Mexico City (2021); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2020); Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo (2020); and Salón Silicón, Mexico City (2019), among others.
Maren Karlson

Maren Karlson (b. 1988, Rostock, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. She has had solo exhibitions at Ashley, Berlin (2021); in lieu, Los Angeles (2020); and Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2017). Karlson’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including Hissing Haze, in lieu, Los Angeles (2020); Counsel, Springsteen, Baltimore (2020); HU, Real Pain Fine Arts, Los Angeles (2020); Perhaps a Window?, stadium, Berlin (2020); and Fantasia, Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2019).
Julien Nguyen

Julien Nguyen (b. 1990, Washington D.C.) lives and works in Los Angeles. His work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and has been the subject of one-person exhibitions including Pictures of the Floating World, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City (2021); Returns, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2019); and Evil in the Defense of the Good, Swiss Institute, New York City (2018).
Walter Price

Walter Price (b. 1989 Macon, United States) lives and works in New York City. Price served in the U.S. Navy en route to art school. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Camden Art Centre, London (2021); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2020); Greene Naftali, New York City (2020); Aspen Art Museum (2019); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018); The Modern Institute, Glasgow (2018); and MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2018). Significant group exhibitions include those at the Whitney Biennial, New York City (2019); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City (2017); and LUMA Foundation, Zürich (2017). His work is in the collections of the Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, among others.
Johanna Unzueta

Johanna Unzueta (b. 1974, Santiago, Chile) lives and works in New York City and Berlin. Unzueta studied art at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and has exhibited extensively throughout Europe, North, and South America. In 2020 she had a major solo exhibition, Tools for Life, at the Modern Art Oxford, and in 2019, Field Station: Johanna Unzueta, From My Head to My Toes, to My Teeth to My Nose was presented by MSU Broad . Unzueta was recently featured in the group exhibitions O rio e uma Serpiente, 3rd Frestas Art Triennial, São Paulo (2020); Searching the Sky for Rain, Sculpture Center, Long Island City (2019); What’s Love Got to Do With It? as part of the 2018–20 Open Sessions program at The Drawing Center, New York City (2019); and was included in We Do Not Need Another Hero for the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018). Other solo exhibitions have been shown at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2017); Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College (2017); and Queens Museum of Art, Flushing (2009). Residencies include Launch Pad LaB, La Boissière, France (2019); La Tallera, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros in Cuernavaca, Mexico (2015); DIVA, Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Arts (2012); and Capacete, Rio de Janeiro (2007). In 2021, Unzueta received the support of Akanemie der Künste, Berlin, with funding from the Federal Government's Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR program.