PAST CONVERSATION
Bill Abdale in Conversation with Michael Dayton Hermann
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PAST CONVERSATION
Bill Abdale in Conversation with Michael Dayton Hermann
Please join us on September 25th at 6 PM for a closing conversation between 2024 Baxter St Mid-Career Artist Initiative Recipient, Bill Abdale, and 2023 Baxter St Mid-Career Artist Initiative Recipient, Michael Dayton Herman, on the occasion of Abdale’s solo-exhibition, Enclosure Lateral Movement. Enclosure Lateral Movement is on view at 128 Baxter St through October 30, 2024.
Bill Abdale is an artist based in New York. He has participated in numerous workshops and residencies, including The Lower East Side Printshop (New York), SOMA (Mexico City), and Beta-Local (San Juan, Puerto Rico). In the early 2010s he was a partner and co-curator at the artist-run Heliopolis Project Space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. He received an MFA from Hunter College, CUNY and a BFA from Purchase College, SUNY.
New York based multidisciplinary artist Michael Dayton Hermann creates work that draws upon the inescapable bombardment of digital imagery to confront the familiar and examine the subconscious from unexpected perspectives. Hermann has exhibited consistently for the past 20 years following receipt of his MFA from Hunter College in NYC where he studied art theory with conceptual artist Robert Morris and executed his thesis under the advisement of Nari Ward. His polymath approach to life rejects easy categorization. He is as adept in his studio as he is in business, philanthropy, and public speaking aways centering the vital role visual art plays in society. He is the author of two books: Warhol on Basquiat and Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire and is a member of the board at Children’s Museum of Art. In his role at the Warhol Foundation, Hermann conceived Andy Warhol: Machine Made, a ground-breaking online auction of five unique NFTs presented by Christie’s, in addition to developing numerous high-profile Warhol projects including The Andy Warhol Diaries docuseries on Netflix and collaborations with Comme des Garçons, Dior, Tiffany, Absolut and many others, generating nearly $100M in revenue to support the philanthropic work of The Andy Warhol Foundation. More information: www.michaeldaytonhermann.com