In Conversation | Mariah Garnett and Rebeccca Matalon

Join Mariah Garnett and Rebecca Matalon, CAMH Curator, for a discussion about the exhibition, Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Gateway. Learn more about the artist and filmmaker’s practice, in which she often mixes experimental and documentary modes of filmmaking to explore personal, familial, and cultural mythologies. In this talk, Garnett talks about her newest body of work featured in her solo exhibition, Mariah Garnett: Dreamed This Gateway, and the importance of a collaborative and multiplicitous approach to storytelling.
About the Artist
Mariah Garnett holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Santa Clarita, California and a BA from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in Film & Video, her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at institutions including the Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Massachusetts; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK; New Museum, New York, New York; SFMoMA, California; REDCAT, Los Angeles, California; the 2014 Made in LA Hammer Biennial, Los Angeles, California, and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, among many others. Garnett has received numerous awards and honors, including a 2016 Artadia Los Angeles Award. In 2021, her film collaboration with Dynasty Handbag, Weirdo Night, was featured in Sundance Film Festival New Frontiers. She currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
About the Curator
Rebecca Matalon is Curator at CAMH, where she recently organized Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody (2019), Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves (2021), and the Houston presentation of the touring exhibition Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need (2021). Previously, Matalon was Assistant Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), where she organized exhibitions including Tongues Untied (2015), Mickalene Thomas: Do I Look Like a Lady? (2016), Rick Owens: Furniture (2016), Welcome to the Dollhouse (2018), and Décor: Barbara Bloom, Andrea Fraser, Louise Lawler (2018). In 2018, she co-organized Zoe Leonard: Survey, a major mid-career retrospective of the work of Zoe Leonard, which debuted at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York before traveling to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Matalon was a Co-Founder, and from 2015-2018, Curator at JOAN, a not-for-profit exhibition space in Los Angeles that is dedicated to presenting the work of emerging and under-represented artists. She has contributed writing to multiple publications and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. Matalon serves on the board of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), and is on the Organizing Committee of Texas Talks Art, a multi-institutional initiative that launched in January 2021.
Visit CAMH’s website for more information on exhibition, Dreamed This Gateway.
camh.org/event/mariah-garnett/
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