Join the artist Jesse Mockrin and curator Adam Harris Levine for the public opening of Mockrin’s exhibition Echo and the launch of the exhibition catalogue.  The launch will feature a conversation between Mockrin and Levine around Mockrin’s artistic practice and research into the themes of the exhibition, which traces a history of misogyny and gendered violence from ancient myth to present day.

Jesse Mockrin: Echo is the artist’s first museum publication. Elegantly illustrated with images of Mockrin’s new works, this clothbound catalogue also features an interview with the artist in conversation with Adam Harris Levine, as well as texts by Carmen Maria Machado and Jacoba Urist.

The book will be available on-site for $40. If purchased prior to the event, books with a shopAGO receipt are permitted and will be honoured for signing. 

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Book launch with a conversation between Jesse Mockrin  and Adam Harris Levine; book signing

2:00 pm - 3:00pm: Exhibition viewing 

Jesse Mockrin is a Philadelphia-based artist. Her luminous oil paintings extract details from European Old Master paintings, reformulating and recontextualizing cultural narratives and art historical motifs to speak to the present. For Mockrin, these paintings and stories function as an entry point into an ongoing conversation about images, time, appropriation, and gender constructs.

Adam Harris Levine is the AGO’s Associate Curator, European Art. Echo is his first contemporary art exhibition.

Published by the Art Gallery of Ontario and DelMonico Books • D.A.P.