Thursday, April 6, 2017
8 – 9:30 am
Think Coffee, Union Square, 123 4th Avenue, NYC

A breakfast salon for the 21st century that takes place in the early hours of the day at Think Coffee, Union Square, hosted by the Jewish Museum. Artist Erica Bauma discusses her recent projects with Jens Hoffmann, Director of Special Exhibitions and Public Programs inlcuding her work on view in the exhibition The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin.
 

Erica Baum was born in 1961 in New York and lives and works in New York. She received her BA from Barnard College and her MFA from Yale University. Recent museum exhibitions include For the Love of Things: Still Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 2016, Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Kunsthalle Berlin and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2015; Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2015; After Dark, Mamco, Geneva, 2015; and the 30th Bienal de São Paulo: The Imminence of Poetics, São Paulo, Brazil, 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include The Following Information, Bureau, New York, 2016; Stanzas, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, 2015; The Paper Nautilus, Bureau, New York, 2014; Erica Baum, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany, 2013; and Naked Eye Anthology, Bureau, New York, 2012. Her work is held in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; FRAC Ile de France, Paris; and the Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. In 2017 Baum will be featured in a two-person exhibition with Ajit Chauhan at SVIT, Prague AAa:Quien, Erica Baum and Libby Rothfeld Bureau, New York ; Strange Days, Le Plateau, Frac Île-de-France, Paris; Group Exhibition Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg and Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, The Jewish Museum, New York.

Coffee and conversation are free.