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Artist Tony Lewis: On Art and Poetry

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Join artist Tony Lewis and Hirshhorn curator Betsy Johnson to discuss how drawing and poetry can be tools to challenge important issues of our time.

In an ever-expanding engagement with drawing, Tony Lewis harnesses the medium of graphite powder to confront social and political topics, including race, power, communication, and labor. Lewis’ Anthology 2014–2016, a suite of thirty-four original collage-poems, is the focus of a forthcoming catalogue. Exhibited at the Hirshhorn for the first time in its entirety in Spring 2018, and now part of the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection, this series of evocative black-and-white works draws on an unlikely source: Calvin and Hobbes comic books. Lewis, part of an exciting generation of artists working to collapse the boundaries between disparate art forms, has quickly established himself in the contemporary art world by forming a distinct visual vocabulary that integrates poetry and text with the properties of abstraction. His monochromatic drawings pull from various visual and written sources, ranging from the personal to the political. Separating, rearranging, and erasing text, he shifts the way we read to open up new and unexpected meanings.

Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014-2016 features essays by internationally renowned artist Theaster Gates and Betsy Johnosn, as well as a visual essay by artist Karl Haendel. The book will be released in 2023 and will be available for purchase online and in person through the Hirshhorn store.

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7:50 pm EST | Zoom broadcast opens

8 pm EST | Tony Lewis in conversation with Betsy Johnson

ASL translation will be provided on Zoom and CART (real-time captioning) will be provided across all platforms. If you have any questions about accessibility for this program, please email hirshhornexperience@si.edu.

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Feb 15, 2023 08:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 15, 2023 08:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: Artist Tony Lewis: On Art and Poetry Register in advance for this webinar: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RwDy54wwSsmngh1ymxqOPw Or an H.323/SIP room system: H.323: 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 149.137.40.110 (Singapore) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 149.137.68.253 (Mexico) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 894 4933 4999 SIP: 89449334999@zoomcrc.com After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Tony Lewis In an ever-expanding engagement with drawing, Tony Lewis harnesses the medium of graphite powder to confront such social and political topics as race, power, communication, and labor. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions including Anthology 2014-2016, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (2018); Plunder, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2017); Alms, Comity and Plunder, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy (2016); and nomenclature movement free pressure power weight, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH (2015). Lewis participated in the 2014 iteration of the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY and was the recipient of the 2017-2018 Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Lewis lives and works in Chicago, IL. Betsy Johnson (Assistant Curator @Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) Betsy Johnson joined the Hirshhorn’s staff in January 2016 and was appointed Assistant Curator in March 2018, with responsibilities for overseeing the Museum’s photography collection. She organized Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014–2016 (2018), The Evidence Room (2019), Feel the Sun in Your Mouth: Recent Acquisitions to the Hirshhorn Collection (2019), and, most recently, One With Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection (2022) and A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China (2022). She has supported a wide array of projects at the Museum, including Rirkrit Tiravanija: (who’s afraid of red, yellow, and green) (2019), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse (2018), Tino Sehgal: This You (2018), Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind rule the body? (2018), Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge (2017), Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn (2017), Ragnar Kjartansson (2016), and Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (2016). By participating in this Zoom Meeting, I agree that: <ul><li>I am 18 or older.</li> <li>The Smithsonian may record this Meeting and use such recordings in whole or part for its purposes, in any media, publicly, and without compensation to me.</li> <li>If I chose to use the meeting’s interactive features (<em>g</em>., chat, or sharing a feed from my device’s camera or speaker), I will take care to share only what is mine to share and that I am comfortable (i) sharing publicly, (ii) having captured on any recordings of the Meeting, and (iii) used by the Smithsonian. My use of the these features shall be civil and courteous (failing to meet this expectation risks removal per <a href="https://www.si.edu/termsofuse">https://www.si.edu/termsofuse</a> ).</li> <li>I waive any expectation of privacy in, and will hold the Smithsonian harmless from any cost or liability of any kind arising from, my participation in this meeting.</li> </ul>

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