Artists in Dialogue | Featuring “Multiplicity” Artists Genevieve Gaignard & Lovie Olivia
March 7, 2024
This Artists in Dialogue session features artists Genevieve Gaignard and Lovie Olivia discussing their work from the exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free. This event takes place in the Lynn Wyatt Theater, located in the Kinder Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
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About the Speakers
Genevieve Gaignard is a multidisciplinary artist who splits her time between her hometown in Massachusetts and Los Angeles. Her work elicits dialogue around class, race, and cultural identity. Gaignard’s art has been presented at institutions including the Broad, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Getty Center, and National Portrait Gallery.
Lovie Olivia creates work that spans numerous mediums and methods informed by race, gender, sexuality, and the historical and cultural nuances surrounding these intersections. Her practice presents a contemporary reinterpretation of classic Italian Renaissance frescos and a rich archival take on collage. Olivia’s work hangs in collections including Project Row Houses, ACRE Residency Chicago, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and University of Texas at Austin.
This series is funded by the Frank and Eleanor Freed Lecture Endowment.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
On Thursdays, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.
“Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” was organized by the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee.
Support for the national exhibition tour is provided by generous grants from the Henry Luce Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Generous support is provided by:
Bettie Cartwright
Texas Capital
Jereann and Holland Chaney
JBD Foundation
Lisa and Barron Wallace
Michael W. Dale
DIR Inc./Drs. Russell H. and Rosalind C. Jackson
Jay Jones and Terry Wayne Jones
Merinda Watkins-Martin and Reginald Martin
Ann and Alton McDowell