Artist Talk: Abby Flanagan
Abby Flanagan, rain score, 2024. Sand in glass tubes, wood table. Photo: Alex Boeschenstein.
Join us for a presentation by artist Abby Flanagan. Flanagan will introduce her practice and detail new works made for Abby Flanagan: To Move Through Stone, the artist’s solo exhibition, on view at the VAC through March 21.
Flanagan will describe how the field research and site visits she conducted along the Edwards Aquifer reflect and inform her in-studio processes. The presentation will be 45 minutes, followed by a Q&A session.
About the artist
Abby Flanagan is an artist and educator based in Western Massachusetts. Her practice traces interconnections between environment and self, moving across drawing, sculpture, and installation to explore subjects of materiality, presence, and precarity. Flanagan completed a BFA at Montana State University in 2015 followed by an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. Her work has shown with galleries, art centers, and artist run projects such as shedshows in Austin (2024), North Loop in Williamstown (2023), NON STNDRD in St. Louis (2023), GrayDUCK in Austin (2023), Tinworks Art in Bozeman (2023), among others. She has participated in artist residencies at SOMA Summer in Veracruz, MX (2021), Orein Arts in Elmira, NY (2019), Burren College of Art Alumni Award Residency in County Clare IR (2016), and Mildred’s Lane in Narrowsburg, NY (2016). She has written for arts publications including Incandescent and served as visual art co-editor for the Bat City Review. She currently teaches Drawing in the Expanded Field at Amherst College.