In Conversation with Artist Joey Terrill
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Date & Time
Sun, Mar 30 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Address (map)
1130 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Venue (website)
S.B. Museum of Art
Artist Joey Terrill joins James Glisson, Chief Curator, SBMA, in conversation to discuss his activism, philosophy and artistic practice. Terrill is a second-generation native Angeleno, whose work combines influences from pop art, Mexican retablos, 20th-century painters like Frida Kahlo, as well as Chicano and queer culture particular to Los Angeles.
Recently on display at SBMA in the exhibition Friends and Lovers, his painting Still-Life with Triumeq and Wrapped Candies that Remind Me of the Artist Félix González-Torres (pictured above) comes from an ongoing series of still life paintings that center HIV medications amongst a variety of household items, atop a kitchen table covered in a sarape-a nod to the artist’s Mexican heritage.
Terrill is a longtime AIDS activist and was involved with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the Metropolitan Community Church, the Gay Community Center, and the Gay-Ins at Griffith Park in the 1970s.
