Dunkerley Dialogue with Tony Oursler, Jolene Lupo, Mimi Hellman, and Sarah Sweeney

Name: Dunkerley Dialogue with Tony Oursler, Jolene Lupo, Mimi Hellman, and Sarah Sweeney
Start: 2025-10-30T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, New York 12866

Schedule

Thu, 30 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, New York 12866 | Saratoga Springs, NY

Join us Thursday, October 30, at 6 pm, for a Dunkerley Dialogue featuring artists Tony Oursler, who has work on view in See It Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection, and Jolene Lupo, with Skidmore faculty Mimi Hellman, Professor and Chair of Art History, and Sarah Sweeney, Associate Professor of Art. They will discuss spirit photography and historical photographic processes.
Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines, and can spark new ideas for all participants. Dunkerley Dialogues are made possible by a generous gift from Michele Dunkerley ’80.
This is event is also made possible with the support from the Alfred Z. Solomon Residency Fund.
This event is free and open to the public. The program will include ASL interpretation.
About the Speakers
Tony Oursler received his BFA from the California Institute for the Arts in 1979. He has exhibited his work since 1981, with solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1981, 2016); Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (1998); Whitney Museum, New York (2000); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2005); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2014); and many others. His works are featured in the permanent collections of institutions worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of Osaka, Japan; Tate Collection, London; among others.
Jolene Lupo is a New York City-based artist and photographer specializing in the wet plate collodion process. Her work explores themes of death, memory, and identification. Lupo received her BFA in Photography, from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Largely informed by the years she spent developing and managing Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Studio and teaching classes at Penumbra Foundation, her work is process-based with an emphasis on physicality and material. She has led numerous panel discussions on the relevance of analog photography in the digital age and hosted tintype portrait events across New York City and abroad. Currently, she works as a Senior Photographer at the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner and teaches workshops in wet plate collodion. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Metro, and Caitlin Doughty’s Ask A Mortician video series.
Mimi Hellman began teaching at Skidmore in 2004 and is now a Professor and Chair in the Department of Art History. She is currently teaching a course on 19th-century photography based on the Tang Museum’s collection. Other courses explore aspects of visual, material, and spatial culture in the western world from the early modern period to the present, including the representation of bodies; the construction of artists’ identities; the consumption of coffee, tea, and chocolate; and social (in)justice in domestic architecture. Her scholarship focuses on how domestic interiors expressed and shaped intersectional identities in 18th-century Europe and America.
Sarah Sweeney is an artist who creates digital interventions in photography, sound and video. She works across a range of media forms, including photographic composites, iPhone apps, photographic sculptures, augmented reality, stereoscopy, animation, video, and Instagram feeds. She is an Associate Professor at Skidmore College in New York and received her BA from Williams College and her MFA from Columbia University. Sweeney has worked with the new media arts organizations CultureHub, Wave Farm and Rhizome to develop projects including the iPhone app The Forgetting Machine. She has been an artist in residence at MASSMoCA and Catwalk. Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in exhibitions at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the New Jersey State Museum, the Black and White Gallery, Bucharest Art Week, the Meet Factory, and the UCR/California Photography Museum. She has published articles in MAST, Accelerate and HASTAC and co-guest edited Media-N, the journal for the New Media Caucus of the College Art Association. She has given academic and artist talks about erasure, ordinary media and memory objects at BRIC, MIT, Green-Wood Cemetery, the Tang Museum, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art.