Artist Talk: Kara Springer

In this artist talk, Kara Springer will discuss how processes of care and tending have grounded her interdisciplinary practice. She will consider how structures may be adaptive and responsive to the living world they inhabit.

Seating is first-come, first-served and everyone is welcome. 

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Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power.

Springer holds degrees from the University of Toronto, ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, and the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, the National Gallery of the Bahamas, the National Gallery of Jamaica, and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. She is an alum of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program.

Conversations in Contemporary Art is a free event series sponsored by Concordia University's Studio Arts MFA Program. The series provides a unique opportunity to hear artists, designers, critics, writers, educators, and curators share their practice(s) and perspectives. 

This series is made possible through the generous support of Lillian and Billy Mauer.