Crit sessions: Keciano

Experience a series of public crit sessions presented as part of the exhibition CRIT: Art Learning Since 1987. This session features artist Keciano, who will present works-in-progress for live critique and discussion.

Audiences are invited to observe and participate as artists, curators, students, and visitors come together to discuss ideas, process, and artistic development.
The sessions offer an opportunity to gain insight into how artworks evolve through conversation, reflection, and feedback, while experiencing critique as an open and collaborative exchange.

This crit will be hosted by Kaiāwhina Whakaaturanga Assistant Curator Matthew Hanson and Kaiwhakamahiri Pirihi Taiwhenua Curatorial Intern Emily Lyall.

WHAT TO EXPECT

This event is free.
This event is held in the gallery at Artspace Aotearoa.
This location is accessible.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Biography

Keciano is a Samoan painter and illustrator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. He has exhibited at Māngere Arts Centre in 2021 and Fresh Gallery Ōtara in 2022. His exhibition, Artist of the Moana in 2022 at Scott Lawrie Gallery explored contemporary identities of Tagata Pasifika. His latest solo exhibition BLUE, 2024 at Wheke Fortress continued and expanded on these current notions, aiming to address sociological ideas through abstractions of his figurative forms.