Ithaca College

The Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity and Handwerker Gallery are co-hosting a talk by Katie Dorame, a visual artist from Oakland, C.A. The talk comes as part of the CSCRE Discussion Series, TECH N' COLOR: Technology, Race, Resistance and Handwerker Gallery exhibition, Origin Stories (read more).

When/Where:
Thursday, February 26
7-9pm
Handwerker Gallery

Ms. Dorame received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California- Santa Cruz. Her work has been featured in a solo show at the Galería de la Raza in San Francisco, and was included in "Bay Area Currents" at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland. She is a member of the Gabrielino/Tongva tribe of California and was recently awarded a Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission. Her work currently shows at the Handwerker Gallery in ORIGIN STORIES: Alien Apostles, and remains on view through March 6.

Alien Apostles is an exhibition of work fusing together imagery from the troubled legacy of American colonialism. Artist Katie Dorame re-contextualizes familiar characters and storylines from the false legacies of Hollywood and history books into a personal lexicon of otherworldly hybrids. Dorame's process attempts to untangle the complexity of a troubled and fictionalized history by borrowing symbols from sources as varied as the romanticized "golden era" of the west coast religious missions to Hollywood B-film science fiction. Her work adopts traditional mediums (oil painting, pen and ink), but injects the Western art historical canon with the unheard voice of time-traveling reptilian colonizers, morphing converts and exasperating locals. 

For more info on the artist: www.katiedorame.com/

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