Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
202 Frick Fine Arts
Rae Root
This talk considers how artists manipulate laws and regulations in pursuit of more public, common or collective spaces. How do the skills and privileges of the artist allow unique opportunities to work around or against the law? And how do such works visually characterize the nature of the “public” or “common”? I explore these questions in the practices of Amy Balkin, David L. Johnson, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
Rae Root (she/they) is a PhD Candidate in History of Art & Architecture at the University of Oregon, and the 2024-2026 Roy Lichtenstein Curatorial Fellow at the Columbus Museum of Art. Rae’s research focuses on spatial politics, considering how artists engage publics and commons, as well as the confluence of geography, gender and sexuality.