In conjunction with his exhibition, Leidy Churchman will speak with artists John Kelsey and Siobhan Liddell. The conversation will focus on the new floor painting Don’t Try To Be The Fastest (Runway Bardo) (2019), and move through other bodies of work in the exhibition, made between 2010 and today.
Siobhan Liddell (b.1965 Worksop, England) lives and works in New York City. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art in London and is represented by Gordon Robichaux in New Yrok. Liddell’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions internationally including at Gordon Robichaux, CRG Gallery, and Thread Waxing Space in New York; the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; Galerie Eric Dupont in Paris; the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, UK; Bob Van Orsouw in Zurich, CH; and CCA Kitakyushu in Japan. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, notably Witness: Against Our Vanishing (curated by Nan Goldin) at Artists Space; the 1995 Whitney Biennial; the Yokohama Triennale; the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the New Museum, White Columns, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, and Paula Cooper Gallery in New York. Her work is in the collection of the UCLA Hammer Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Dallas Museum of Art. Reviews of her work have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Frieze, The LA Times, Village Voice, Art on Paper, and Flash Art.