Please join us Thursday, May 23 for a conversation between Jon Gott and Andrea Andersson on the occasion of Foreign Correspondent, Gott's first exhibition with Sibyl.
Andrea Andersson serves as the founding director and chief curator of Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought, a cultural organ for artists of the global diaspora based in New Orleans. Working with artists at the borders of art and archives, figure and ground, text and textile, she commits to a study of the indefinite field of art writing. Together with Siglio Press, she has co-edited a series of artists’ books since 2016. In recent years, she has edited publications and organized exhibitions with artists including Yto Barrada, Sanford Biggers, Helen Cammock, Troy Montes Michie, Cecilia Vicuña, Tina Girouard and Alia Farid.
Jon Gott is an artist, curator, teacher, builder, homemaker and dog lover born in Washington D.C. in 1984 and raised in a homeschooling family in the Great Lakes regions of Ohio. As a teenager, emancipated from his family, he adopted a nomadic lifestyle traveling widely across the globe before studying painting and sculpture in America. Since then he's lived and worked in Cleveland, New York, Chicago, Miami, and New Orleans. He produces sculpture, installation, drawing, performance, video, sound, and photography with a sprawling and playful sense of experimentation and influences as widespread as new age theology, Rock and Roll, and Japanese design.
Conversation will begin promptly at 6:30. Seating will be limited, with floor seating encouraged.