Half-hour conversation led by artist Li(sa E.) Harris about a work from the Menil Collection and her own practice.
Li(sa E.) Harris leads the next session of The Artist's Eye at The Menil Collection on Sunday, November 8. It's part of a series the Menil runs that brings Houston artists into the galleries for informal conversations about the collection, and this one is a short, half-hour talk in the main building.
If you're not familiar with the format, here's how it works: the Menil picks an artist, who then chooses a specific piece from the collection to talk about. The conversation isn't a formal lecture; instead, the artist speaks about that work in relation to their own practice—the materials they use, the conceptual questions they're working through, and how a piece from the collection connects to what they're doing in their own studio. It's a way of seeing a work through another artist's eyes rather than a curator's.
Li(sa E.) Harris is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and researcher, so she's coming to this from a few different angles at once. That's part of why these sessions work—you get to hear how someone who actually makes things thinks about the art they're looking at. The talk runs for thirty minutes, and it's held in the collection's main building, so you can easily spend some time with the art before or after.
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The session is on Sunday, November 8, from 3:00 to 3:30 PM at The Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX 77006. Admission is free, as are the Menil's public programs.
