In Conversation: Irene Reece and Rana Young
Archives and Identity
Thursday, November 12, 2020
6:00 - 7:30 PM PST
On Thursday, November 12th from 6:00 - 7:30 PM PST we were joined for a conversation with FORECAST 2020 artists Irene Reece and Rana Young. Both artists source materials from their own personal archives to explore familial narratives and the relationships between past and present. Watch the recorded event to hear Reece and Young speak about their work and explore what it means to work within an archive.
ABOUT IRENE ANTONIA DIANE REECE
Irene Antonia Diane Reece graduated with her B.F.A (2018) in Photography and Digital Media at the University of Houston and M.F.A (2020) at Paris College of Art in Photography and Image-making. She exhibited a solo exhibition in 2017 at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX; in collective 2020 XicanX: New Visions curated by Dos Mestizx (Suzy González and Michael Menchaca) at Centro de Artes in San Antonio, Texas. She’s currently exhibiting work for a collective exhibition in 2019-2020 in Paris, Barcelona, Utrecht and exhibiting in collective “Souls of a Perseverant Generation,” at the Community Artists’ Collective in Houston, Texas. Her series Billie-James will be exhibited at the 5th Biennale Internationale de Casablanca in 2021.
Irene Reece
ABOUT RANA YOUNG
Rana Young is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art at the University of Arkansas. Rana holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln where she was an Othmer Fellow and a BFA in Studio Art from Portland State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, as well as published online by PDN, Hyperallergic, VICE, Huffington Post, British Journal of Photography, and The New York Times, among others. Rana launched PHOTO–EMPHASIS, an online platform for highlighting contemporary works made by photography educators, students, and practitioners, with Alec Kaus in June 2017. In collaboration with Kris Graves Projects, she released her first monograph, The Rug’s Topography, in January 2019.
Rana Young
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