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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

In Conversation: Artist Thedra Cullar-Ledford with Bill Arning

Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016

02:00 PM
US/Central

Thedra Cullar-Ledford, "Proud Mary," 2010. Oil on canvas, 60x48 inches. Private Collection.

Thedra Cullar-Ledford, "Proud Mary," 2010. Oil on canvas, 60x48 inches. Private Collection.

Houston-based artist Thedra Cullar-Ledford and CAMH Director Bill Arning will discuss the exhibition Lady Part Follies, one part of CAMH's three part exhibition series, Right Here, Right Now: Houston, Volume 2. For their conversation, Arning and Cullar-Ledford will discuss the artist's art-making process, personal history, and how life and art can intertwine and transform into political expression.

About the Discussion

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Thedra Cullar-Ledford was born in Abilene, Texas. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1992 and her MA. in Fine Art from Oxford University in the UK in 1994. Her solo exhibitions include Drawing the Eye to Nothingness (2015); Small Stains, Big Problems (2013); Living Dolls (2012); Domicile (2003); Biometrica (2002); Other People's Lives (2000); Encase: To Wrap Up in Something Solid (1998); Contain, Order, Move: The Box as Fundamental Form (1997); and Cradle to the Grave (1993).

Group exhibitions she has participated in include Powerful Babies: Keith Haring's Impact on Artists Today (2015);Confluence (2014); Hullabaloo: Holiday ShaBang(2013); Spring Introduction (2013); 10 Houston Artists: An Invasion of Space for 2011 Contemporary Art Month (2011); H2O Houston to Hyderabad (2011); Five Texas Artists: A Portrait Series (2010); among others.

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