Artists on Artworks: Oscar Tuazon on

Kara Walker’s Unmanned Drone

 
 

Photo by Monica Nouwens

 

Sunday, February 1, 12 pm
The Brick
518 N. Western Avenue
Free

In this gallery talk, Oscar Tuazon will speak about Kara Walker’s Unmanned Drone from his perspective as a sculptor.

Oscar Tuazon is an artist based in Los Angeles. He is currently Director of Cedar Spring Water School in the Great Basin region of Nevada, a long-term Land Back initiative in collaboration with the Goshute Tribe. Tuazon studied at The Cooper Union and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. He is a co-founder of Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), New York in 2000; castillo/corrales, Paris in 2007; and Los Angeles Water School (LAWS), Los Angeles in 2016. His work has been included in the São Paulo Bienal, Chicago Architectural Biennial, Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale and Skulptur Münster. Solo exhibitions include the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Le Consortium, Dijon; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; and Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.In 2025 Tuazon completed a major public artwork for the City of Seattle.

This program is presented in conjunction with MONUMENTS, an exhibition co-organized and co-presented by The Brick and The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA).