Curator's Talk for Sonia Romero: Taken Root
Artist Sonia Romero (L) and Curator Karen Rapp (R)
Co-presented with the Global Feminist Forum
Refreshments provided
Karen Rapp, Director/Curator at Loyola Marymount University’s Laband Gallery, will talk about how she conceived of the exhibition as well as her process and experiences curating Sonia Romero: Taken Root, on display in Thacher Gallery.
About the exhibition:
Spanning 25 years and crossing the realms of studio practice and public art, Taken Root reveals Romero’s visual language that expands the possibilities of printmaking, painting, and paper cutting.
About Karen Rapp:
Karen Rapp is the Director and Curator of the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. She has been recognized throughout her career for her promotion of the visual arts within higher education, championing interdisciplinary connections between campus and external communities through exhibitions and public programming. A Los Angeles-based arts leader who specializes in the direction and curation of academic museums and galleries, Rapp served as Museum Director of the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College from 2007 to 2015. As part of her tenure there, she directed the ambitious expansion of the museum facility into a stand-alone, 40,000-square-foot space on the college’s campus in Monterey Park. From 1998 to 2005, she served in the successive roles of Assistant Director, Curator, and Director of the Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside.