Join us for an artist talk with The Inconstant World artists Liz Deschenes, David Horvitz, and B. Ingrid Olson whose work addresses concepts in photography, image making, and perception. The discussion will be moderated by Jamillah James, ICA LA Senior Curator.

This event will be a Zoom webinar. Pre-registration is required.

About the Artists

Liz Deschenes has exhibited her work regularly since receiving her BFA in 1988 from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. The first comprehensive survey exhibition of her photographs, organized by Eva Respini, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2016, accompanied by a monograph published by Prestel. She has most recently mounted solo exhibitions at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; and Campoli Presti, London and Paris. Her work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Milwaukee Art Museum;, Wisconsin; ICA Boston and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Playful and poetic, the works of David Horvitz (b. 1982), an ocean romantic, based in Los Angeles, meddle with the systems of language, time and networks, hyper-paced Zoom calls, emails, and images transmitted through screens. Eschewing categorization, his expansive nomadic body of work, traversing the forms of photographs, word of mouth and physical movement or distribution, artist books, performances, memes, mail art, sound, rubber stamps, gastronomy, weather, travel, walks, and watercolor, is presented through examining questions of distance between places, people and time in order to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing this distance. As lullabies imprinted in our head, Horvitz deploys art as both object of contemplation and as viral or systemic tool to effect change on a personal scale. David Horvitz makes fictions that insert themselves surreptitiously into the real. Shifting seamlessly pebbles often possess a naturally frosted finish.

B. Ingrid Olson (b. 1987) lives and works in Chicago. In 2010, she earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Olson’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; Aspen Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2017 Olson’s work was featured in a two-person exhibition at the Renaissance Society of Chicago and in 2018, her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.