Join us on January 10 at 11:00 AM for a seated conversation between artist Rebecca Manson and Jenni Sorkin as they discuss Manson’s artworks, featured in her latest exhibition at Jessica Silverman, “Time, You Must Be Laughing”.
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Saturday, January 10, 2026
11:00am
Jessica Silverman, 621 Grant Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94108
11:00am
Jessica Silverman, 621 Grant Ave., San Francisco, CA, 94108
Artist Talk: Rebecca Manson and Jenni Sorkin
Jenni Sorkin is Professor and Chair of History of Art & Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes on the intersections between gender, material culture, and contemporary art, working primarily on women artists and underrepresented media. Her books include Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community (University of Chicago Press, 2016), Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women Artists, 1947–2016 (Skira, 2016), and Art in California (Thames & Hudson, 2021). She has contributed scholarly essays to major exhibition catalogs and books that seek to reconfigure the received histories of twentieth century art, including Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College (ICA Boston, 2015), Outliers and American Vanguard Art (National Gallery of Art, 2018), Among Others: Blackness at MOMA (MOMA, 2018), Groundswell: Women of Land Art (Nasher, 2023), and the Postwar Reader: A Global History, 1945-1965 (Duke University Press, 2025). Her work has been supported by the ACLS, Center for Craft, Getty Research Institute, and Smithsonian Institution. She is a 2025 recipient of the Warhol Foundation’s Arts Writers Book Grant.
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