Neuberger Museum of Art Presents Conversation with South African Contemporary Art Expert Leora Maltz-Leca,

Strained race relations under apartheid have heavily influenced many South African artists, including Robin Rhode, who grew up under that system of racial segregation. His work is now on view in the exhibition, Robin Rhode: Animating the Everyday, at the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College through August 10.

In conjunction with the exhibition, the museum has organized a special program on Sunday, July 20 at 2 pm, featuring South African contemporary art expert Leora Maltz-Leca, who will lead a conversation about Rhode’s work on view in the museum's galleries and the cultural context surrounding its production. The program is free with museum admission.

Maltz-Leca is assistant professor of contemporary art in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Rhode Island School of Design. Raised in Durban, South Africa, Maltz-Leca was educated at Yale, Brown, and Harvard. Her writing has appeared in Art Bulletin, Artforum, Bookforum, African Arts, Art South Africa, and ArteEast.  She contributed to the exhibition catalogue of Animating the Everyday.

Rhode was named recipient of the 2014 Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize, a biannual prize of the Neuberger Museum of Art that celebrates an exceptional artist with an early-career survey and catalogue. This is the first museum survey of Rhode’s animations and it features 22 works, both digital videos that Rhode identifies as “animations” and photographic series that correspond to or complement the time-based work. Rhode’s exuberant animations – created in the streets, studios, his parents’ yard in Johannesburg, and Berlin where he now lives and works – transform the quotidian into the playful and fantastic but include an underpinning of melancholy, danger, and risk.

The Neuberger Museum of Art is an integral part of Purchase College, State University of New York. The Museum is supported in part by the State University of New York. Support for the Museum’s collection, exhibitions, publications, and education programs is provided by grants from public and private agencies, individual contributions, and the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art’s members and Board.

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