• Mary Weatherford: Light Falling like a Broken Chain; Paradise, 2021; flashe on linen.© Mary Weatherford; courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen Studio; courtesy of David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles.

  • Mary Weatherford

    Mary Weatherford, photo: Carolyn Fong

  • Aria Dean

    Aria Dean, photo: Molly Matalon

  • Katy Siegel

    Katy Siegel, photo: Siegel Walley Films


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Artists' Conversation: Mary Weatherford and Aria Dean: Gut Punch—Reenvisioning Gestural Abstraction

Two artists whose work is included in Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection—Aria Dean and Mary Weatherford—discuss the ways they approach and reenvision the genre of gestural abstraction. Katy Siegel, Research Director at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, moderates. This is the first program in a series of artists’ conversations focused on the thematic threads of the exhibition

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