Join us for a closing reception and artist talk with Jane Lackey in conversation with Suzette McAvoy.
ABOUT JANE LACKEY
Jane Lackey is a multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her minimal paintings on paper and large-scale installations focus on materials, objects and mark-making systems that summon invisible aspects of common identity and connection to others. Solo and group exhibition venues include the Wellcome Trust, London; I Space, Chicago; Exit Art, NYC; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs; Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs; Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe and the Art Gym, Portland, Oregon. Her artwork has been supported by grants from Artist Trust in Seattle, National Endowment for the Arts, Illinois Arts Council, Grand Arts, Kansas City and Tamarind Institute. Artist residencies include Camargo Foundation, France; NEA/La Napoule Foundation, France; Grand Arts, Kansas City and the 2011 JUSFC/NEA Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship, Japan. Her work is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Cranbrook Art Museum, Tamarind Institute, Museum of Arts and Design and James A. Michener Collection at Kent State School of Art among others. During her tenure as Professor/Chair of Fiber at Kansas City Art Institute and as Artist-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art, she engaged her role as artist/educator to amplify the conceptual and theoretical unfolding of textile-based traditions and to push boundaries that often divide craft and fine arts.
ABOUT SUZETTE MCAVOY
Suzette McAvoy is an independent curator, arts writer, and art advisor with more than thirty-five years experience in the field of fine art and museums. A leading authority on the art and artists of Maine, she has curated more than sixty exhibitions throughout her career, including nationally traveling exhibitions of the work of Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Lois Dodd, Karl Schrag, Alan Magee, and Alex Katz.
From 2010-2020, Suzette served as Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA), where she spearheaded the institution’s $5.2 million capital campaign and relocation to a newly constructed building designed by internationally-renowned architect Toshiko Mori, which opened in Rockland, Maine, in summer 2016. Prior to her tenure at CMCA, she served 12 years as Chief Curator at the Farnsworth Art Museum. In 2013, she was recognized as one of the Fifty People Who Have Made a Difference in Maine by Maine magazine.