There has been a lot of discussion of painting recently. But too often these conversations dwell on what is inside the frame rather than the forces, both political and economic, that condition painting and the artists most committed to its practice. This panel, composed of a diverse range of voices and perspectives, will ask some hard questions that are essential to painting and to its continued vitality as a discourse. What are painting’s political stakes in a time marked by gross economic inequality? How can we as artists and art professionals work for social change while respecting the rigors and subtleties of our chosen medium? Does art, and painting in particular, have any political obligations to a larger public, and where do these responsibilities begin and end? Posing these questions to the panelists and to the audience, Painting-Politics will look deeply into the old, complex, and never quite resolved tension between the practice of painting and political engagement. 

Panelists:
Kamrooz Aram (painter, faculty, Parsons-New School)
Anoka Faruqee (painter, faculty, Yale School of Art)
Marc Handelman (painter, faculty, Rutgers University)
Carrie Moyer (painter, writer, activist, faculty, Hunter College)
Saul Ostrow (curator, writer, founder of Critical Practices Inc.)
Lise Soskolne (artist, core organizer of W.A.G.E.)
Moderated by Peter Rostovsky (painter, writer, faculty, Steinhardt)

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