The Courtauld welcomes the American artist Mira Schor (b. 1950, New York) on the occasion of her solo exhibition Wet/London at Mimosa House, London. Schor is one of the most significant and incisive feminist painters of the past fifty years. Her work emerges from the belief that painting remains a vital intellectual and political tool – a place where language takes material and visual bodily form, and the body becomes a site of inscription, resistance, and desire. At a moment when democratic institutions are under pressure, language is increasingly militarised, and questions of bodily autonomy are once again fiercely contested, Schor’s practice speaks with renewed urgency.
Despite Schor’s significance as an artist, writer and educator, her work has rarely been exhibited outside America. Wet/London is framed as both a historical corrective – addressing the lack of exposure to Schor’s work outside the States – and a political intervention, foregrounding feminist bodies of knowledge and visual languages urgently needed today.
Speakers:
Mira Schor received her MFA in painting from CalArts in 1973 where she was a member of the CalArts Feminist Art Program and a participant in the historic feminist art installation Womanhouse. Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture, editor of The Extreme of the Middle: Writings of Jack Tworkov, and co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory, and Criticism.
Panelists:
Dr Alexandra Kokoli, Associate Professor, Middlesex University
Tatjana Schaefer, PhD candidate, Courtauld Institute of Art
Daria Han, Founding Director and Curator, Mimosa House, London
Moderator: Dr Catherine Grant, Reader, Courtauld Institute of Art
Each speaker will present for fifteen minutes on an aspect of Mira’s work, before moving onto a roundtable conversation and Q&A.
Organised by Professor Jo Applin FBA, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art and Director of the Centre for the Art of the Americas