Please join us for an artist's talk by painter Athena LaTocha in Temple Contemporary this Thursday Oct 18 at 11AM. LaTocha, who was born in Anchorage, Alaska, is an artist whose monumental works on paper explore the tenuous relationship between man-made and natural landscapes. Her work has been shown across the country in places such as the CUE Art Foundation, Artists Space, New York State Museum, South Dakota Art Museum, and the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska. In 2017 she had a solo exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe. In the last month she completed a large new work titled Ozark (Shelter in Place) for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that was based on a visit to Northwest Arkansas and Pea Ridge National Military Park. LaTocha will be discussing her tactile and process-based approach to large scale painting that emerges from research conducted in National Parks and landscapes marred by the traces of American industrialism. 

LaTocha's talk is sponsored by GenEd, PDS, Visual Studies, and Temple University Student Activities Funds. 

Image: Ozark (Shelter in Place) 2018