Lecture: ‘To Go Past Slavery’: Rupture and Rapture in Joe Overstreet’s ‘Senegal Paintings'

Name: Lecture: ‘To Go Past Slavery’: Rupture and Rapture in Joe Overstreet’s ‘Senegal Paintings'
Start: 2025-02-06T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-06T20:00:00-06:00
Location: 1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77006

Schedule

Thu Feb 06 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1533 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX, United States, Texas 77006 | Houston, TX

In conjunction with "Joe Overstreet: Taking Flight," Dr. Richard Hylton, Lecturer in Contemporary Art, in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, at SOAS, London, and contributor to the exhibition catalogue, discusses how Overstreet’s work intertwines abstraction with themes of liberation and the Black Diasporic experience and positions abstraction as a tool for social and political commentary.
Learn more about the exhibition: menil.org/joeoverstreet
This program takes place in the main building, located at 1533 Sul Ross Street. The Menil's public programs are always free.