Visiting Artist Talk: Carrie Moyer

Video (1:14:15): Artist talk by Carrie Moyer, January 28, 2014

In the above lecture American painter Carrie Moyer talks about her abstract paintings only and not about her activism.

About Carrie Moyer

“Carrie Moyer, painter, writer and activist, melds hard graphic shapes with biomorphic forms in expertly handled acrylic, or in the artist’s words “the ugly step-child of oil paint.” Her work simultaneously recalls Surrealism, 70s counterculture graphics and abstract expressionism, fused with an expressly feminist bent and an interest in alternative cultural histories. Moyer has throughout her artistic career been invested in queer and feminist activism: She cofounded Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) in 1991, and has worked with and designed agitprop graphics for Queer Nation, the Lesbian Avengers, the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (ILGO) and the New York City Anti-Violence Project. Moyer’s writing has appeared in Art in America, Artforum, Modern Painters, the Brooklyn Rail and other publications, and her essays have also been included in a range of anthologies—from Queers in Space: Communities, Public Spaces and Sites of Resistance to The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists.Part of the Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series.” – the description of the video at youtube.