Artist talks: Rana Begum and Andrew Roberts

Name: Artist talks: Rana Begum and Andrew Roberts
Start: 2025-09-17T11:00:00-04:00
Location: 601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA, United States, Georgia 31401

Schedule

Wed, 17 Sep, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-04:00

Location

601 Turner Blvd, Savannah, GA, United States, Georgia 31401 | Savannah, GA

Join artists Rana Begum and Andrew Roberts for two in-depth conversations exploring their new exhibitions, presented as part of the SCAD Museum of Art’s fall season. Begum will expand on the principles of color, light, and geometry that serve as the essential components of her dynamic works, engaging the legacies of abstraction, Minimalism, and Op art. Roberts will expound on his installation Haunted, which reimagines the interior of a fast-food chain restaurant as a liminal space at the convergence of his personal experience, corporate aesthetics, and geopolitical systems.
https://www.scadmoa.org/programs/artist-talks-rana-begum-and-andrew-roberts?rrdate=1758121200
About the artists
Rana Begum (b. 1977, Sylhet, Bangladesh; lives and works in London) focuses on the interplay between light and color, blurring the boundaries between sculpture, painting, and architecture. Her use of repetitive geometric patterns — found both within Islamic art and the industrial cityscape — is inspired by childhood memories of the rhythmic, daily recitals of the Qur’an. Influenced by the geometric abstraction of Minimalism and Constructivism and the work of artists such as Agnes Martin, Donald Judd, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Tess Jaray, Begum’s work ranges from drawings, paintings, and wall-based sculptures to large-scale public art projects.
Recent solo exhibitions include Dappled Light, Concrete at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; The Box Plymouth, U.K.; Pitzhanger Manor, London; and Mead Gallery, Coventry, U.K., as well as Rana Begum, Kate MacGarry, London; Ordered Form, St. Albans Museum + Gallery, St Albans, U.K.; Infinite Geometry, Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden; A Conversation with Light and Form, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, U.K., following the Tate St Ives Porthmeor Artists’ Residency Programme; Space, Light, Colour, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, U.K., and Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, U.K.; and The Space Between, Parasol Unit, London.
Begum curated the exhibitions Opposing Forms at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, U.K., and Occasional Geometries at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, London. Group exhibitions include Life Is More Important Than Art, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Desert X, Palm Springs, Fla.; Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh; Simplicity of Form: Unfolding Abstraction, Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton; Rhythm and Geometry, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, U.K.; Creative Folkestone Triennial, Kent, U.K.; Actions. The image of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, U.K.; Tribute to Sol LeWitt, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, the Netherlands; and the 11th Gwangju Biennale, Korea. A comprehensive monograph titled Rana Begum: Space Light Colour was published by Lund Humphries in 2021. She was elected a Royal Academician in 2020.
Andrew Roberts (b. 1995, Tijuana, Mexico; lives and works in Mexico City‍) incorporates elements from gameplay, roleplay, and world-building into his multiplatform practice, recognizing in these mechanisms a cultural structure where consumption and production become one. Roberts has presented his work in solo and two-person exhibitions at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; Pequod Co., Mexico City; House of Chappaz, Valencia and Barcelona; Best Practice, San Diego; and Delaplane, San Francisco. He presented Haunted Silicone Mass, a solo booth with Pequod Co. at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2023. Significant group exhibitions include the Institut Culturel du Mexique, Paris; Quiet As It’s Kept, the 2022 Whitney Biennial, New York; the Institute of Mexico in Spain, Madrid; ECLIPSE, the 7th Athens Biennale; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among others.
This event is free and open to the public.