2PM EST / 11AM PST
Join us for a wide-ranging conversation between Julie Henson and LA-based comedian and performance artist Christina Catherine Martinez, on the occasion of Julie Henson: Character Studies, on view through December 18th. Henson and Martinez will discuss their shared interests in character, celebrity, and cheap glitter through the lens of sculpture, and performance, respectively—fan-girling about church, Los Angeles, and each other along the way.
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Christina Catherine Martinez is a writer, performer, and author of the essay collection Aesthetical Relations, published by Hesse Press. Her live act has been described as “a great bridge between many different disciplines, including performance art, stand-up, and clowning.” Her texts and performances have been commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and reviewed in Art in America and AQNB. She writes for Artforum, Art Agenda, Texte zur Kunst, LA Times IMAGE, and also for television, including The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim, and the short-form comedy series Two Pink Doors on FX. She is a 2018 recipient of a Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and was named a Comic to Watch in 2020 by Time Out Los Angeles, as well as a Comedian You Should Know in 2020 by New York Magazine. christinacatherine.info
K. M. Cannon for the Las Vegas Review-Journal
Julie Henson (b. 1983 in Charleston, SC) lives and works in Los Angeles. Henson received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2011. Solo exhibitions include the Neon Museum, Las Vegas, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, Yes Ma’am Projects, Denver, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York. Henson has participated in group shows at numerous museums and spaces including Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, the Torrance Art Museum, Torrance; and the Visual Art Center at the University of Texas, Austin.
Henson’s work has been reviewed in the pages of The Steidtz Magazine, Elephant Magazine, Artforum, and Hyperallergic. She was a 2017 nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Award and 2019 Artist in Residence at The Neon Museum, Las Vegas and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson.