LSU School of Art presents faculty artists in conversation: Afterglow | Lauren Cardenás and Jade Hoyer at Glassell Gallery

LSU School of Art will presentAfterglow | Jade Hoyer and Lauren Cardenásfrom September 6 through October 20, 2024, in Glassell Gallery.This two-artist exhibition and its programming explore identity and belonging in response to the artists' shared experiences.As women and first-generation Americans whose parents immigrated from Mexico and Philippines respectively, Cardenás and Hoyer use printmaking to explore their sense of double consciousness—a feeling of foreignness in both their ancestral and current homes.The project is structured to place LSU faculty voices "in conversation" with visiting artist peers to bring diverse perspectives on lived experiences, creative practices, and building artistic communities.

A free public reception and artist talk is scheduled for Friday, September 6 from 5–8 p.m.with the artist talk and Q&A at 5:30 p.m.In addition to public programming downtown, visiting artist Jade Hoyer will spend three days installing the exhibition and working with LSU School of Art students to provide a lecture, studio visits, and printmaking demonstrations.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

JADE HOYER | In her multimedia artistic practice, visiting artist Jade Hoyer employs installation, printmaking, papermaking, and social practice to examine social issues through quotidian materials and objects!her work wryly addresses questions of gender, multiracial identity, and social privilege.She currently an artistic practitioner fellow at Brown University'sCenter for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and anassistant professor of art at Carleton College.

She has exhibited her work internationally and has been recognized by organizations including the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Windgate Foundation, the Colorado Department of Higher Education, the William Morris Society in the United States, and the Minnesota State Art Board.Her work is in collections such as the Museum at Texas Tech University's Artist Printmaker Research Collection, the Association of Pinoy Printmakers, Philippines, and the Museu da Gravura de Curitiba, Brazil.

LAUREN CARDENÁS | Lauren Cardenás is a Latinx studio artist who focuses on print media.Her current body of work asks the viewer to question the connotations of everyday mundane objects.She is investigating her bifurcated Mexican American identity as a subject matter.She currently is assistant professor of printmaking at LSU School of Art.

Cardenás holds a BA in Painting, Printmaking, and Drawing from Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX!she is a Tamarind Institute Printer Training Program graduate and holds an MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St.Louis.Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally.She was awarded the University of Nevada, Reno Black Rock Press Redfield Fellowship.Cardenás also was a co-founding member and co-director of Museum Blue, an artist-run space in St.Louis.

Images:

Lauren Cardenás,protegeme, 2024, Lithograph on Kitika chine colle on Amate handmade paper with silkscreen,17"x12"

Jade Hoyer,Thank you/ Salamat, 2022, silkscreen monoprint, handmade paper containing Philippine fibers and hospital scrubs, 9' 2" x 11' 10"