Resident Artist Lecture: Sahar Khoury
Type
Lecture
Series
Barbara Lee Lecture Series
Location
Old Dominion Fresco Barn
Skowhegan Campus
39 Art School Rd
Madison, ME 04950
Date
7:30 PM
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Sahar Khoury, Untitled (the elephant in the room [the tower of silence]), 2025, steel, ceramic, speakers, motor, glass, altered spiral staircase, Palestinian olive oil. Installation view.
Sahar Khoury, Untitled (the elephant in the room [the tower of silence]), 2025, steel, ceramic, speakers, motor, glass, altered spiral staircase, Palestinian olive oil. Installation view.
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Sahar Khoury, Untitled (the elephant in the room [the tower of silence]), 2025, steel, ceramic, speakers, motor, glass, altered spiral staircase, Palestinian olive oil. Installation view.
Sahar Khoury, Untitled (the elephant in the room [the tower of silence]), 2025, steel, ceramic, speakers, motor, glass, altered spiral staircase, Palestinian olive oil. Installation view.
Resident Faculty Sahar Khoury shares “Weights and Measures: The Axis of Mourning and Grief” as the next speaker in our Barbara Lee Lecture Series.
“Weights & Measures” conveys multiple meanings. It refers to the denial our bodies and psyches carry, the passage of time and musical tempos. At its most literal, it evokes systems of value and order. The talk will discuss Khoury’s last three years of work that that have focused on collectivity, intangibility, music, food, repetition, and death. Through the process of assemblage, casting, printmaking, forging, welding, and hand building forms, Khoury continues to explore what makes something, or someone, worth more or less than another? The athleticism of death, the decoys hidden in plain sight, and the cultural imperatives that create the weights we bear. The talk will share the unique processes of casting at the Kohler Factory in Wisconsin two summers in a row, first in foundry and then in pottery.
About the artist:
Sahar Khoury is an artist based in Oakland, California. Khoury makes sculptures that integrate abstraction, personal and political symbols, and an intuitive sensitivity to site. Found or rejected objects that are immediate, abundant, and recurring serve as a script for constructions made of metal, clay, glass, and papier-mâché. Trained as a cultural anthropologist and having never taken any fundamental art classes, Khoury continues to develop an idiosyncratic approach to merging diverse materials, with a primary commitment to spontaneity and interdependence. She received her BA in Anthropology from UC Santa Cruz in 1996 and her MFA From UC Berkeley in 2013.
About The Barbara Lee Lecture Series:
The Barbara Lee Lecture Series is an annual series that features faculty artists during our summer program. During this series, we open our campus to the public, welcoming our friends and neighbors into the conversations that take place at the School. After the summer program, the lectures become part of the Lecture Archive, a growing collection of recordings that can be accessed online or on request.
