January 25, 2021
Zoom, University of Chicago
Join us as we welcome Aliza Nisenbaum back to DoVA to share with us her work.
The artist is best known for her figurative paintings, with intimate and oftentimes disorienting compositions of her subjects. The work foregrounds the social with subjects ranging from undocumented immigrants met during her work with a grassroots organization, Immigrant Movement International in Queens, New York, to a recent ambitious group portrait of Transport London workers completed during a residency with Art on the Underground. Her painting “Kayhan Reading the New York Times (Resistance Begins at Home),” was included in the Renaissance Society’s 2020 group exhibition Nine Lives. Though the painting was completed in 2017, its subject matter feels even more reflective of our present moment.
Nisenbaum received her MFA from SAIC in 2005 and the following year taught here at the Department of Visual Arts. She is now based in New York City where she lives, works, and teaches as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University.