10–noon
11 am Tour
All Modern members are invited to enjoy a complimentary coffee in Café Modern ahead of a special guided tour of the new exhibition Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map before it opens to the public. For more information or to make reservations, please email the membership department.
Supporting Circles members
6:30 pm
In honor of the artist and the exhibition Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map, Supporting Circles members ($1,500+) are invited to enjoy cocktails, dinner, and an exclusive preview of the exhibition. Reservations are required. To become a member or upgrade your current membership to attend this event, please email the membership department.
“Even my curating was basically a form of writing in my mind. . . .
“Shepherd dug deep into herself and her process to figure out how to make paintings that would essentially make themselves instead of her superimposing images on them.
“I do believe that there is such a thing as intuition and there is such a thing as imagination. I just think these are concepts, that they’re culturally realized.
“My work comes right from a visceral place―deep, deep―as though my roots extend beyond the soles of my feet into sacred soils. Can I take these feelings and attach them to the passerby?
“His dedication to abstraction and his determination, in the monumental and extensive series ‘Elegies to the Spanish Republic,’ to evoke the emotional implications of political events seem particularly relevant to the present moment: with crises from climate change and the invasion of Ukraine to the ongoing tolls of racism and broken governance all but demanding a response from artists, the example of a predecessor deeply
