What does the art of the past mean to the artist of the present? In this ongoing program, moderated by Kimbell staff, artists and architects discuss works in the museum’s collection, share the special insights of the practicing professional, and relate older art to contemporary artistic concerns, including their own.
Brian Molanphy, artist, Dallas
Moderated by Jennifer Casler Price, curator of Asian, African, and Ancient American art
Brian Molanphy's attention to flux, endurance, transgression, and history informs his art. As a bookmaker and baker, he learned to apprehend the world through containers. Coupled with the muck of paper pulp, printer’s ink, pastry cream, and bread dough, the idea of containment led to ceramics. In 2020–21, Molanphy was an Artist in Residence at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan, and he has recently exhibited his work in Taipei, Taiwan, and at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Molanphy is professor and chair at the Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas.
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