Carolina Paz, untitled (purple and blue, two times 4 x 4 grid, diptych), 2025, Series square fields, Oil and wax on wood panel, 4 x 4 x 1 inches (each)
Conversation with Carolina Paz and Aliza Rachel Edelman
Saturday, November 15, from 4–6 pm
A.I.R. Gallery
Join us on Saturday November 15, for a conversation with artist Carolina Paz and independent curator, art historian, and editor Aliza Rachel Edelman in conjuction with Paz’s solo exhibition imagining spaces. Edelman's research interests span the modern Americas and the Middle East, with an emphasis on the art of postwar United States and Brazil, transnational histories of abstraction and concretism, gender, and feminism. The event will be organized around a discussion between Paz and Edelman, followed by an audience Q&A.
Aliza Rachel Edelman, Ph.D., is an independent curator, art historian, and editor whose research spans the modern Americas and the Middle East, with emphasis on the art of the postwar United States and Brazil, the transnational histories of abstraction and concretism, and theories of gender and sexuality in a global context. Her recent scholarly articles may be found in the following international catalogues and volumes: Judith Godwin: Modern Woman (Berry Campbell Gallery, 2023); Judith Lauand: Desvio Concreto (MASP, 2022); Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts (Bloomsbury, 2022); Purity is a Myth: Materiality in Concrete Art in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (Getty Research Institute, 2021); and American Women Artists, 1935–1970—Gender, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2016). She is the co-chief editor of Woman’s Art Journal, the longest-lived feminist art-historical journal, now in its forty-sixth year of production.
Carolina Paz is a Brazilian artist whose work moves at the intersection of language, poetic consciousness, and social change. She shifts between painting, installation, text, video, and reconfigurations of care, creating gestures of closeness, interruption, and realignment. She meets the world as matter in process, often through iteration, dislocation, and attentive presence. Curatorial and pedagogical modes are integral to her practice; she builds platforms, programs, and exhibitions as living ecologies that question, hold, and transform. She founded Uncool Artist, a structure for experimental development and field transformation, and serves as both artist and board member at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn. From 2010 to 2017, she directed Coletivo 2e1 in São Paulo. Her work has been shown in museums, biennials, institutional venues, and artist-run spaces in Brazil, the United States, Spain, Portugal, and Argentina. She received the Funarte Visual Arts Prize, and her pieces are held in private and public collections in the United States, Europe, and Brazil. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and graduate degrees in Social Sciences and in Media and Knowledge from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. www.carolinapaz.com