A Day of Jay: Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

Join artist Natalie Frank and curator Kristin Spangenberg for a conversation about Jay Bolotin’s expansive art that utilizes Biblical stories, Appalachian coal legacies, expressionist architecture, and much more!

Moderated by Stuart Horodner, UK Art Museum Director

Natalie Frank is a widely exhibited artist known for her virtuosic paintings and works on paper that examine themes of power, sexuality, and identity. Between 2011 and 2014, Frank created seventy-five gouache and chalk pastel drawings based on the original and unsanitized fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm. These vibrant works

depict familiar stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Snow White, as well as lesser known adventures.

Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm was presented at the Drawing Center in New York City and the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas in 2015; it travelled to the UK Art Museum in 2016. Frank’s drawing, A Tale with a Riddle, is included in our Touchstones (for Jay) exhibition, and the two artists share labor-intensive practices and illustrative strategies that combine realism and fantasy.

Kristin Spangenberg is the Curator of Prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM). She has more than forty years of experience in her field, having previously served as Assistant Curator of Prints at the CAM and Assistant Curator of Graphic Arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She has lectured on artists including Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, and Frank Duveneck. Spangenberg earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Davis, and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan.

In 2016-17, she worked with Jay Bolotin on The Book of Only Enoch and The Jackleg Testament, Part I: Jack & Eve, and recently, she curated George Bellows: American Life in Print, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death.