Wednesday, November 20th from 7:00 P.M. to 8:15 P.M.
Rutgers - Mason Gross School of the Arts
Department of Art & Design
Civic Square Building, Room 110
33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick, NJ.
Troy Michie presented by Company Gallery, New York (Photo by Ruben Natal-San Miguel for arcade project)
Image description: The artist, Troy Michie, standing in front of a white gallery wall with a collage hanging on either side. The left collage includes photos of body parts and yellow, gray, black and green modules. The collage on the right has a cut out of a torso and an arm as well as smaller photographs and modules in purple, blue, yellow, green and blue (image from troymichie.com).
DID YOU KNOW? Interesting tidbits* about Troy Michie:
1. Many of the images in Michie's collages are derived from porn magazines.
2. In their work, Michie is constantly thinking about discrimination. Specifically, they are thinking about discrimination against trans people and women facing discrimination in spaces that are predominantly male.
3. The artist has juggled their practice while holding all kinds of jobs, including working at a bookstore; working as an art assistant; and working in retail.
4. While receiving their MFA, Michie had trouble feeling comfortable thinking about art while watching people struggle to find housing and food.
5. Michie realized while pulling images for their collages that images of nude black and brown men are used as fetish objects for white men and that this is often fueled by the silencing of the identities of the bodies represented.
6. As a third-generation American, Michie voices that many statements made in our society about immigrants are "just blatant lies."
7. In the past two years, Michie has been looking at their upbringing in El Paso in order to address race in their work.
Riots (June 4th, 1943), 2019, Cut paper Collage,11h x 8.5w in
Image description: Off-white background with grayscale images of figures and fabrics collaged onto its surface: figure against hedge—only their head and barefoot are showing because the rest of the image is covered by an image of dark gray fabric; shirtless figure of person laying on the ground with a mustache. The photo of the figure on the ground may have been taken in the 1970s based on image quality and haircut. Front image is of hands with sleeves rolled up holding up fabric in front of the figure laying down (images from troymichie.com).
"Troy Michie is a Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1985. Their work was featured in numerous exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the El Museo del Barrio. Troy Michie has been featured in articles for the Art Asia Pacific, the ARTnews and the ARTnews. The most recent article is Display Cases: Greg Tate on a Whitney Biennial Haunted by Warren Kanders and Mamie Till written by Greg Tate for the ARTnews in September 2019." - mutualart.com
The Visiting Artist Lecture Series is organized by the Rutgers MFA program and includes weekly lectures, studio visits and critiques by luminaries working across a wide spectrum of mediums.
Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair Accessible; ASL/CART available on request.
Contact Cassandra one week prior to event:
coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu or 848-932-5399
Free and open to the public.
Wheelchair Accessible; ASL/CART available on request.
Contact Cassandra one week prior to event:
coliveras@mgsa.rutgers.edu or 848-932-5399
*The "tidbits" in this list may or may not be true and have been inspired by this interview with the artist: i-d.vice.com, "troy michie is making collage art a little more queer" by André-Naquian Wheeler, March 30, 2018.