"Meet the Artist" with Corinne Botz

On Thursday, November 21, we welcome Corinne Botz to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Botz will present work from The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Haunted Houses, Milk Factory, and Dollhouse View. A sustained focus on space, gender and the body, particularly relating to women’s experiences and feminist histories, is central to Botz’s practice. The talk coincides with the 20th anniversary of Botz’s best-selling book The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, which explores a collection of miniature crime scene models constructed in the 1940’s to train detectives by the criminologist Frances Glessner Lee. Milk Factory, her upcoming book with Saint Lucy Books, visualizes lactation rooms, making the invisible labor that takes place there visible, and reflecting ideological contradictions inherent in modern parenthood and public policies. Botz will have copies of her books for sale throughout the night. This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s YouTube page at 6pm.

Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.

Corinne Botz is a photographic artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Catskill, New York. Botz’s projects have explored gender, trauma, invisibility, motherhood, and romantic and dystopian notions of the domestic realm. In a feature story for The New York Times Penelope Green wrote, “[Botz’s] photographic work reads like a DSM of contemporary American life and the dark side of domesticity.” Her published books combining photography and writing include “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death” (Phaidon/Monacelli Press, 2004) and “Haunted Houses” (Phaidon/Monacelli Press, 2010), and Milk Factory (Saint Lucy Press, Upcoming).Botz’s photographs have been internationally exhibited at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, De Appel, Turner Contemporary, Smack Mellon, Wellcome Collection, Alice Austen House Museum, and Benrubi Gallery. Her Oscar Qualifying short film “Bedside Manner” (2016) won the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC. Her work has been written about in numerous publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art Papers, Foam Magazine, Hyperallergic, Granta, Bookforum, Modern Painters, and Time. Botz’s work is in permanent collections including Brooklyn Museum and Museum of Contemporary Photography. She is the recipient of both the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation grants. Botz teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, PhotoPhlo, YoungArts, and International Center of Photography.

Banner images: Corinne Botz.

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