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Eileen Maxson

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A virtual performance lecture offering speculative investment advice for uncertain times. Drawing on antiques, heirlooms, and dusty corners of material culture, video artist Eileen Maxson considers what objects might still hold value in the future. About the Artist:<a href="https://www.eileenmaxson.com" title="https://www.eileenmaxson.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eileen Maxson</a>’s videos mix analog aesthetics, invented personas, and family drama to recast media and inherited scripts with dry, unsettling humor. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Wexner Center for the Arts (The Box), the Queens Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, Aurora Picture Show, and Galveston Arts Center. Her solo exhibition <a href="https://www.keijserskoning.com/exhibitions/32-parent-trap-eileen-maxson/overview/" title="https://www.keijserskoning.com/exhibitions/32-parent-trap-eileen-maxson/overview/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Parent Trap</a> at Keijsers Koning (Dallas) was named one of the best exhibitions of 2024 by <a href="https://glasstire.com/2024/12/17/glasstires-best-of-2024/" title="https://glasstire.com/2024/12/17/glasstires-best-of-2024/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Glasstire</a>.Maxson received her BFA from the University of Houston, her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and attended De Ateliers in Amsterdam. Sponsors This work is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance. Additional support was provided by the Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by DiverseWorks in partnership with Aurora Picture Show and Project Row Houses and funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and a Pedantic Research Grant.

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