Gallery Talk on Queer Materialities with Artist Emily Budd
DECEMBER 12 | 2 PM
Join artist Emily Budd for a talk on works by Laura Aguilar, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, José Leonilson as part of our series Saturdays at The Warehouse.
Sculptor and SMU Assistant Professor of Art Emily Budd will lead a guided tour and conversation through a selection of works with a focus in Queer materialities and their rendering of the human figure in art, space, and time. Get a sculptor’s perspective on transformative sculptural practices and discuss how artists like Laura Aguilar, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, José Leonilson, and others articulate forms of absence, presence, and intimacy as a response to erasure and societal abandonment.
About Emily Budd
Emily Budd is a sculptor who uses casting and metallurgic practices to manifest the possibilities of deep change and Queer renewal. Budd builds from her training in the traditional cire perdue bronze casting method to innovate new foundry futures, memorialize hidden histories, seek encounters with land and divination, and to materialize subtextual forms as a response to queer historical erasure and abandonment. She has exhibited with the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas, SEED Lab at the Anchorage Museum, the Kentucky Museum, Texas Vignette, and Nature of Things. Her project, Memorial for Queer Rhyolite, has been recognized by The Washington Post and Discovery Channel’s Mysteries of the Abandoned: Hidden America among others. Budd earned an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2018 where she received a Cadogan award from the San Francisco Foundation. Budd serves as Assistant Professor of Art in Sculpture at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
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Saturdays at The Warehouse
Saturdays at The Warehouse take place on Saturdays during Open Hours and focus on the current exhibitions. The Warehouse staff and guest speakers will lead visitors in programs that include conversations, tours, talks, and behind-the-scenes discussions.
NOV 7 at 11:30 AM | Artist Talk with Marcin Dudek
Join artist Marcin Dudek for a discussion of his large-scale installation, Akumulator, in the current exhibition In Our Image: The Fragile Body in Contemporary Art. Dudek’s practice builds from autobiographical experience and expands to explore the broader phenomenon that shaped it. These include the rituals of subculture, DIY economy, and crowd dynamics—how the individual gets pulled into the group, and what control is lost as a mass gains momentum.
NOV 21 at 2 PM | Drawing in the Galleries with educator Michael Duncan
Sketch works in the current exhibitions during this guided activity with Michael Duncan, Gallery Teacher at The Warehouse. Paper and pencils will be provided or bring your own supplies. Graphite pencils only are allowed in the galleries.
DEC 5 at 2 PM | Drawing in the Galleries with educator Michael Duncan
Sketch works in the current exhibitions during this guided activity with Michael Duncan, Gallery Teacher at The Warehouse. Paper and pencils will be provided or bring your own supplies. Graphite pencils only are allowed in the galleries.
DEC 12 at 2 PM | Gallery Talk on Queer Materialities with artist Emily Budd
Sculptor and SMU Assistant Professor of Art Emily Budd will lead a guided tour and conversation through a selection of works with a focus in Queer materialities and their processual rendering of the human figure in art, space, and time. Get a sculptor’s perspective on transformative sculptural practices and discuss how artists like Robert Gober, Laura Aguilar, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, José Leonilson, and others articulate forms of absence, presence, and intimacy as a response to erasure and societal abandonment.
JAN 9 at 2 PM | Artist Talk with Celia Eberle and curator Leigh Arnold
Join Dallas-based artist Celia Eberle in discussion with Nasher Sculpture Center curator Leigh Arnold in an overview of Eberle’s decades-long career and a tour of select works from the exhibitions.
- Register for Open Hours here. There is no need to sign-up for individual Saturdays at The Warehouse programs unless noted above.
- Saturdays at The Warehouse programs are free for visitors but may fill up.
- Have any questions? Contact Caitlin Overton.