Hyperallergic Members are invited to affix us on August 12, 2025, for a digital dialog with two famend artists in regards to the materiality of paint: Rina Banerjee and Ellie Irons. The audio system will delve into the particularities of working with totally different pigments and surfaces, the method and chemistry behind creating their very own paint, and the way they select the correct shade.
Moderated by Hrag Vartanian, this dialogue will discover the evolving relationship between chemistry and shade, from historical pigment traditions to up to date ecological practices. We’ll hear from the artists in regards to the means of navigating the intersection of science, tradition, and creativity of their work.
Learn extra about Ellie Irons in her interview with Lakshmi Rivera Amin on Hyperallergic: 10 Questions for an Artist Who Grows Her Personal Pigments
The dialog will happen on Crowdcast on Tuesday, August 12, from 2 to 3pm (ET), and will likely be adopted by a possibility for members to ask questions.
All Hyperallergic Members are welcome. If you’re already a member, register to register for the occasion. If not, please think about becoming a member of as a member to entry occasions like this and assist our impartial journalism.
As all the time, when you have any questions, please tell us at membership@hyperallergic.com.
See you on August 12!
In regards to the Audio system
Rina Banerjee lives and works in New York Metropolis. Born in Kolkata, India, and having lived in Manchester and London earlier than arriving in Queens, she attracts on her multinational background and private historical past as an immigrant to create work that focuses on ethnicity, race, migration, and American Diasporic histories. In 2018, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Superb Arts and the San José Museum of Artwork co-organized her first solo retrospective, Make Me a Abstract of the World, which toured North America. She additionally displays internationally, spanning 14 biennials worldwide, such because the 57th Venice Biennale, the Yokohama Triennale, and the Kochi Biennial. Her work is in lots of non-public and public collections, together with the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Whitney Museum of American Artwork, the San Francisco Museum of Fashionable Artwork, Centre Pompidou, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Ellie Irons is an artist, educator, and father or mother dwelling and dealing on Mohican land in Troy, New York. Working throughout media — from watercolor work to un-lawning experiments — her follow combines socially engaged artwork and ecology fieldwork. Current work includes collaborations about and with spontaneous city crops (aka weeds), together with co-founding the Subsequent Epoch Seed Library and the Environmental Efficiency Company. Ellie acquired a BA from Scripps School, an MFA from Hunter School, and accomplished her PhD in arts follow Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2021, researching types of inventive follow that domesticate plant-human solidarity. Her e book Feral Hues: A Information to Portray with Weeds was printed in 2023 by Publication Studio Hudson. She is presently the Co-Director of NATURE Lab on the Sanctuary for Unbiased Media.
Hrag Vartanian is editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic, which he co-founded together with his associate, Veken Gueyikian. In 2024, he was a Poynter Fellow in Journalism at Yale College and was awarded a Susan C. Larsen Lifetime Achievement Award for Visible Arts Writing by the Rabkin Basis.
