Brad Kahlhamer with his El Camino in Arizona. Courtesy the artist and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
Alison Mosshart and Brad Kahlhamer's El Camino. Photograph: Brad Kahlhamer. Courtesy Brad Kahlhamer, Alison Mosshart, and Venus Over Manhattan, New York.
In Conversation: Brad Kahlhamer & Alison Mosshart
Tuesday, June 3rd
6:00 – 7:00 PM
39 Great Jones Street
New York, NY 10012
(New York, NY) – Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to host a conversation between artist Brad Kahlhamer and his longtime friend—and occasional collaborator—Alison Mosshart, the musician and artist known for her work with The Kills and The Dead Weather. Organized in conjunction with Kahlhamer’s debut solo exhibition at the gallery, "Bowery Nation: Birds Are Talking," currently on view at 39 Great Jones Street, the discussion will explore their shared inspirations, their love of music, and their mutual passion for cars—including their experience driving a car across a river in Arizona, as documented in Mosshart’s short film, "Oh Say." Their conversation will further explore the intersections between visual art, music, and storytelling.
ABOUT BRAD KAHLHAMER
Brad Kahlhamer (b. 1956, Tucson, AZ) is a multidisciplinary artist who creates monumental paintings and intricate sculptures. His creative practice reflects the multitudinous nature of his personal identity. Kahlhamer is of indigenous descent, adopted by German parents, and came of age in the bustling world of the 1980s and ’90s New York art scene. At once an acute draftsman and an underground punk musician, Kahlhamer straddles many creative stratospheres. Kahlhamer’s work has been the subject of numerous solo presentations, including recent exhibitions at Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris; Garth Greenan Gallery, New York; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson; and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale. His work is held in the permanent collections of many public institutions including the Denver Art Museum, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. He currently lives and works between New York City, NY, and Mesa, AZ.
ABOUT ALISON MOSSHART
Alison Mosshart is best known for her work in her musical duo The Kills, as well as fronting the Grammy nominated rock n’ roll band, The Dead Weather. Mosshart is also a visual artist, working in paints, multi-media and photography. She studied art for two years at the University of Florida, following a brief unrecorded spell at the University of Honolulu learning print making in the middle of the night. She is for the most part self taught. She has had 5 major solo exhibitions: “Fire Power” at the Joseph Gross Gallery in NYC, 2015, “Fire Power Los Angeles” at Maxfield in Los Angeles, 2017, “Tonight Only” in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 2016, “Side Effects” at Panteon in Mexico City, 2018, and “Los Trachas” at FF-1051 Gallery in Los Angeles, 2018.
