Program Details
The Day Series: An Artist Talk by Ann Trondson
Friday, February 7 | 6:00–8:00p.m. | TMA Library
Join us in the Toledo Museum of Art Library for a captivating evening with multidisciplinary artist Ann Trondson as she discusses her innovative project, The Day Series, and its accompanying artist's book! The Day Series can be described as follows, in the artist's own words: "For one year, I created one work of art each day Monday-Friday. Each collage and color gradient used the previous weeks’ New York Times Sunday Newspaper as the source of the color story and collage material The series commenced on July 29, 2022. The Series has traveled to Gadsden Museum of Art (201-2022), Magic City Art Connection (2022), Wiregrass Museum of Art (2023) Dothan, Alabama, and Gallery Vox (2024) Birmingham, AL. In 2025, it will be shown at Roger Glass Center for the Arts, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH."
After the talk, Ann will be available to sign her book, which can be purchased in advance or at the event.
About the Artist:
Ann Trondson is a multidisciplinary artist who works across performance, film, video, photography, sculpture and more to explore identity, seriality, repetition, time, and space. She has held artist residencies at Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada, Terra Summer Residency, Giverny, France, and the Guesthaus Residency, Los Angeles. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California, and is the founder and co-director of Vinegar, an artist-run, women-led, nonprofit in Birmingham, Alabama, that champions and exhibits works by emerging and experimental artists.
Her works have appeared in solo and group exhibitions at MAK Center of Art and Architecture, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, the Gadsden Museum of Art, C for Courtside, Salon 94, Louis B. James Gallery, the College for Creative Studies, and Neon Heater. In 2024, she will present exhibitions at Gallery Vox, Birmingham, River House Art Gallery, Toledo, OH, and Dream Clinic, Columbus, OH. Trondson lives and works in Perrysburg, Ohio.
About the Book:
Published by Snap Collective Publishing K/S.
Ann Trondson (°1976, Murfreesboro, United States) is an artist working through her seemingly mundane desires. She started the project The Day Series in August 2021 and for fifty-two weeks, Monday-Friday, she created a collage in the shape of a piano, using the previous weeks’ New York Times Sunday Newspaper as the collage material resulting in an artwork that contains two hundred and sixty individual panels. The Day Series will travel to various art spaces for three years until the works will be disbursed to its individual collectors. The Day Series, the book, captures this large scale project and acts as an entry point into the other art projects the artist has made since 2005 in performance, video, film, sound, photography, drawing and collage. The book embraces the space where ideas blur and solidify, and is an archive encapsulating twenty plus years of making art.
Texts by art historians Brett Levine and Emily Jay, plus essays by artist Ann Trondson. The book size is A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) and is a coffee-table style artbook with 300+ color photos.
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