THE ARTIST PROFILE ARCHIVE: PREVIEW SCREENING, PICTURE OF PICTURES: THE METRO YEARS
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The Artist Profile Archive
Join The Artist Profile Archive (TAPA) for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at their films in production, featuring artists Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, Julian Schnabel, and Ralph Gibson. Be among the first to preview their debut feature-length documentary, Pictures of Pictures: The Metro Years, which explores the lasting impact of Metro Pictures. This special presentation offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of TAPA and its filmmaking process.
Following the screening, founding producer and director Sophie Chahinian will lead a conversation with Robert Longo and other featured artists.
Sophie Chahinian
As the Founding Director of The Artist Profile Archive (TAPA), Sophie Chahinian, a Los Angeles native and East Hampton resident, launched TAPA in 2015 as a free, multi-media platform on contemporary art, allowing its audience the opportunity to learn about art in the artists' own words. Sophie hopes that by sharing these films of working artists discussing their personal backgrounds, creative challenges, sources of inspiration, and artistic practices, more people will discover contemporary art and its capacity to unite people through the exploration of the parameters of the human experience.
Photo: Robert Longo
Robert Longo
Robert Longo (b. 1953) is a New York-based artist, working across drawing, painting, sculpture, and film to create visualizations of power, protest, and hope. His large-scale, labor-intensive charcoal drawings form a searing portrait of our time. Robert Longo lives and works in New York and is represented by Pace Gallery and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
Photo: Robert Longo Studio
Sponsors
Performing Arts programming is supported in part by funding from Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and Monica and Peter Tessler. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: John and Joan D’Addario, Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Christine and Bill Campbell, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Lena Kaplan, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Michèle and Steve Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, Leila Straus, Susi and Peter Wunsch, and Andrew Yuder and Kyle Glaeser.
