READING & DISCUSSION
REFLECTIONS ON UTOPIA, METTA & FREEDOM: ARTIST TALK & SCREENING W/ JACOLBY SATTERWHITE
Hosted by Queen Rose Art House x Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Thursday, April 25, 2024 | 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Online Event
Image: Jacolby Satterwhite, Still of We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other, HD color video and 3D animation with sound RT: 24:22 min., 2020
Join Queen Rose Art House and Tulsa Artist Fellowship for a virtual artist talk and screening with world-renowned interdisciplinary artist Jacolby Satterwhite. Satterwhite (born in Columbia, South Carolina) will discuss his career and screen a 20-minute video work, A Metta Prayer, which premiered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art last fall. At a time when Black and LGBTQ+ communities face continued threats of violence, A Metta Prayer constructs a digital space that expresses love, joy, and resilience. Audience engagement is encouraged.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jacolby Satterwhite is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses video, performance, 3D animation, drawing, fibers, and printmaking to explore themes of memory, desire, and personal and public mythology. In his video works, Satterwhite creates fantastical digital landscapes populated with multiple, costumed avatars of himself, engaging with hand-drawn objects and text as extensions of the body in a seamless exchange between live performance and constructed worlds. Satterwhite's computer-generated realms—densely layered with proliferating drawings, objects, and performances—encompass animated narratives of personal memory and identity. Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and many more group exhibitions. Satterwhite received the United States Artists Award in 2016 and was an Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem from 2021-22. He lives and works in New York.
ABOUT QUEEN ROSE ART HOUSE
Founded in 2021 by interdisciplinary artist Kalup Linzy, the Queen Rose Art House is a social but critical art space that engages with our local, national, and international art communities. The project inspires and creates a safe space for artists to dwell by hosting events like gatherings, performances, exhibitions, screenings, symposiums, and short-term artist residencies. Supporters include the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
