
Abstraction

The painter looks back on five decades of experimentation and how that’s generated new levels of confidence and clarity in her art.
Alphabets are limited; it’s the arrangement of letters that produces meaning.

The North American debut of Belgian choreographer’s work set to Johann Sebastian Bach’s cello suites.

“The reward is getting through the tough stuff. And that’s what’s perplexing about the art thing. When I was going to school there were kids that could draw their asses off. There were kids that were better draftsman than me, for certain. But no one was more determined than me.”

Hovsepian addresses current matters in her work, but she does so in a vocabulary that moves beyond binaries and beyond Western mentality, one that follows a different way of thinking and feeling.

“I don’t want to mention names, but there are several black artists that would like to shoot me today because they weren’t in that show. Some of them are dead, but the ones that aren’t dead still give me a lot of bullshit every time I see them.”

“Every time you remember something, it’s not like you’re being teleported to the past—you’re actually physically experiencing it in the present.”
