Join us for a discussion between artist Monique van Genderen and poet Jennifer Moxley on the closing of
The Sea Ranch, 2024: Some paintings, a photograph, a film and a poem. The two will discuss the exhibition's titular painting, followed by a poetry reading from Moxley.
Last summer, van Genderen spent two weeks in Sea Ranch, CA and during this time made a painting stretched between two trees in the forest. The work draws on fragments of the region's summer landscape, replete with gestures that convey abstracted memories which obstinately repeat through the artist's practice. For the exhibition, photographer Lile Kvantaliani made a
short film documenting the trip and painting, and Moxley wrote a poem titled "C-Ranch" in response.
Monique van Genderen received her MFA from CalArts, Valencia, CA and her BFA from UC San Diego. She has presented solo exhibitions most recently at Galerie Richard, Paris, France; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Bernier/Eliades, Brussels; Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin; Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA; Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig; TAI Modern, Santa Fe, NM; and Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo. Her work may be found in numerous international collections including the Albertina Museum, Vienna; the Eileen Harris and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and MCA San Diego. She has received a Project Commission for Murals for La Jolla; the Chiaro Award at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Federal Courthouse Building Art Commission for the GSA, Arts and Architecture Program, Harrisburg, PA; and the West Hollywood 1% for the Arts Public Art Commission. In 2006, van Genderen was shortlisted for the Castellón County Council III International Painting Prize, Castellón, Spain and, in 2004, was an Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. Van Genderen lives between San Diego and Los Angeles, and is the Chair of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.
Jennifer Moxley is a poet, essayist, and translator born and raised in San Diego. She studied at UC San Diego and the University of Rhode Island, where she completed her BA, and Brown University, where she earned an MFA. She is the author of
Druthers (Flood Editions, 2018),
The Open Secret (Flood Editions, 2014),
Clampdown (Flood Editions, 2009),
The Middle Room (subpress, 2008),
Often Capital (Flood Editions, 2005),
The Sense Record and other poems (Edge Books, 2002; rpt. Salt Editions, 2003), and
Imagination Verses (Tender Buttons, 1996; rpt. Salt Editions, 2003). She was the poetry editor for
The Baffler magazine from 1997-2010 and a contributing editor of
The Poker magazine from 2003-2008. Moxley teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine.
