Closing Reception and Artist Talk: Maggy Rozycki Hiltner; Installation, Superfun(d) & Morningstar

Visitors at the event will hear from the artist about her artistic career and the artwork on view. A full-color brochure publication will also be available for visitors to take home.
Hiltner’s lecture is titled “Why So Serious?”. “Humor is both an artistic and life strategy toward understanding and relating to the world. A sense of humor that started off as a schoolyard defense mechanism can end up as artistic empowerment. Some questions that came to mind in researching and writing this presentation were: Does art have to be serious to be taken seriously? Can humor be considered a universal and a historical phenomenon or do we project our own current tastes on our predecessors? And what makes something funny? This presentation is a brief visual survey of humor in art that includes contemporary and historical art images as well as images of the artist’s own work.” -Maggy Rozycki Hiltner