Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Mimi Plumb

Friday, May 8th, 2015 7:30 PM PST
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA 94133

This event is presented in partnership with the San Francisco Art Institute

About Annu Palakunnathu Matthew:

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew is a Professor of Art at the University of Rhode Island and Director of the URI Center for the Humanities.

Matthew’s photo-based work draws for her experience of having lived between cultures and about being an immigrant in the USA. She was born in England, spent nearly 20 years in India and now lives in the USA. Her recent exhibitions include the RISD Museum, Newark Art Museum, Guangzhou Biennial of Photography, China, Tang Museum, NY and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Upcoming is a solo exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum of Art, Toronto, Canada.

About Mimi Plumb:

Mimi Plumb will speak about her earliest photographic projects, two distinctly California stories, created in the 1970s. What Is Rememberedis a personal photo-based stream of consciousness of people and places representing her experience growing up in the suburb of Walnut Creek, as strip malls and tract homes transformed the California landscape. In Pictures from the Valley, Plumb traveled up and down the agricultural valleys of California, photographing the young men living in chicken coops and under the sky, the children and adults working together in the fields, and the United Farm Workers Union organizers listening and talking with farmworkers about how elections in the fields might change their lives, during one of the most pivotal periods of organizing in the UFW’s history.