First Friday Art Tours, featuring artist talk with Kate Newby

First Friday Tour and Artist Talk with Kate Newby. The artist will discuss their works on view in Intimate confession is a project, followed by a Q&A.

Museum docents, Megan Randall and Nina Vukicevic, will then guide you through the full exhibitions, including Museum Stand-In by Iris Touliatou, and will also introduce Reynier Leyva Novo: Former Present Today. Lunch follows the tours. Throughout, please explore the Design, Architecture, + Art Pop-Up Library.

Date:

Friday, February 2, 2024 | 12:00pm-1:45pm

**Free lunch provided after the Tour**

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum. You’re invited to join us in-person for First Friday Exhibition tours!

Format:

Meet at Blaffer Art Museum for First Friday Art Tours. Drop in and join for an afternoon of exploration and creativity.
12:00-12:45
Artist Talk, Kate Newby

12:45-1:15pm
Guided by museum docents Megan Randall and Nina Vukicevic, dive into both exhibitions to discover the stories and motivations behind the works on display and how they were realized. Stay for lunch after the tour.

About the Artist:

Born 1979, Auckland (NZ). Lives and works in Floresville, Texas (US)

Consisting of site-specific projects that form relationships with locations through actions, Kate Newby’s work engages with a wide range of situations using every-day actions and materials in order to displace and challenge how contemporary art is exhibited, viewed, and archived. These projects draw directly from the locations in which they are presented, with Newby’s work bouncing backwards and forwards between initial observations, the process of working, and the sites that she works in.

Newby received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001 from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, followed by a Master of Fine Arts in 2007 and a Doctor of Fine Arts in 2015. Significant solo exhibitions include: Had us running with you, Michael Lett 3 East St (2023); YES TOMORROW, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi (2021); I can’t nail the days down, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2018) and Let me be the wind that pulls your hair, Artspace, San Antonio (2017).

Recently, work by Newby has been included in the group presentations: Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2023); Intimate Confession is a Project, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, Texas (2023); Robin, Dove, Swallow, Thrush, Monte Castello di Vizio, Italy (2022); Walls to Live Beside, Rooms to Own: The Chartwell Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (2022) and Réclamer la Terre / Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); In 2012 Newby was awarded the Walters’ Prize, Aotearoa New Zealand’s premiere contemporary art award, by international judge Mami Kataoka. She has exhibited at the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), the 1st Brussels Biennial for Contemporary Art (2008) and the Sao Paolo Biennale (2004). In 2017 she undertook the prestigious Chinati Foundation residency at Marfa, Texas.

Image:
Kate Newby installing, Do it Tired. Photo: Jen Bootwala/Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

Kate Newby
Do it tired
2023
Cast iron
Loading dock
14 x 24 x 2 in. (9 pieces)
Courtesy of the artist and Laurel Gitlen