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Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

August 11 - August 11, 2011

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The Art of Hair: Chris Sollars in conversation with Jennifer A. González

For BAN6, Chris Sollars presents Hairy, an installation that utilizes the artist’s own hair as a starting point in order to address issues related to history, cultural identity, and memory. Join Sollars in conversation with Jennifer A. González, associate professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at U.C. Santa Cruz, as they discuss the cultural and artistic issues of hair. Jennifer A. González's essays and reviews have appeared in Frieze, World Art, Diacritics, Art Journal, Bomb, numerous exhibition catalogs, and anthologies, her new book published by MIT press is Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art.