In this Conversation program, artist Micol Hebron will be at the Emmanuel Art Gallery on October 29, 2024 to talk with Maria Buszek, Professor of Art History at CU Denver, about her work, her artistic practice and the emergence of artificial intelligence in her recent work.
Her series Summer Bod: Trad Wife Edition and the Infantry Diptych are on view in the Emmanuel’s current exhibition, Absolute Immunity, which is on view through November 2, 2024.
About the artist
Micol Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes studio work, curating, writing, social media, crowd-sourcing, teaching, public-speaking, and both individual and collaborative projects. Her recent work engages AI text-to-image generators to expose sexism and gender biases in contemporary media and technology. Hebron is an Associate Professor of Art at Chapman University; the founder/director of The Situation Room resource space for the creative community; the Gallery Tally Poster Project about gender equity in contemporary galleries; and the Digital Pasty/Gender Equity initiative for the internet. Hebron currently serves as an advisor for the Art + Technology Lab artist’s grant at Los Angeles Museum of Art. In the past she has been the Chief Curator at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; the director of the UCLA Summer Art Institute; an editorial board member at X-Tra magazine; an independent curator; a conservator at LACMA, and the co-founder of Gallery B-12 in Hollywood in the 90s. She has served on advisory boards at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Birch Creek Ranch Residency (Utah), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, UCLA., and the Centre Pompadour in France. She is the founder of the LA Art Girls collective, the Co-Founder of Fontbron Academy, and the founder of Feminist Summer Camp, in Ephraim, Utah, and Ercourt, France. Hebron employs strategies of consciousness-raising, collaboration, generosity, play, and participation to support and further feminist dialogues in art and life. She has presented exhibitions, performances, and lectures at numerous international institutions.