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Caroline Kent: Monday, July 1, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CT
SAIC Ballroom
Caroline Kent, born in 1975 and raised in the Midwest. She spent her early years in rural life in Sterling, Illinois and currently lives in Chicago, IL. Kent received her B.A. from Illinois State University and an M.F.A. at The University of Minnesota. Prior, from 2000-2002, she lived in Alba Iulia, Romania as a Peace Corps Volunteer. She is currently Assistant Professor in the Art, Theory, and Practice department at Northwestern University. Kent’s practice explores the limits of language and the process of translation through an expanded painting practice. Developed through an on-going archive of improvisational works on paper, the paintings build out of this context to exists in the multiple forms of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and performance. Kent labors to expand the discourse of modernist abstraction to include alternative logics that move beyond surface and frame through acts of translation, from one medium to the next.
Photo credit: Evan Jenkins