Lezley Saar and Peter Frank in Conversation

5:30pm: Lezley Saar and Peter Frank in Conversation

Lezley Saar is a mixed-media artist and painter. Her artwork deals with themes of identity, race, gender, beauty, normalcy, and sanity. She has exhibited internationally, and nationally and is from a family of artists with her mother Betty and sister, Allison. Peter Frank is a poet, curator, and the Associate Editor at Fabrik magazine. He is former critic for Angeleno magazine and the L.A. Weekly, served as Editor for THE magazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly, and contributes articles to publications around the world.

Please join Saar and Frank in free-flowing discussion about artistic dynasties, portraiture, and identity in contemporary painting.