Event
Pérez Art Museum Miami 
Miami, FL 81°F, few clouds
Monday 11am-6pm
Tuesday-Wednesday Closed
Thursday 11am-9pm
Friday-Sunday 11am-6pm
Art & Insight: A Talk with Kate Capshaw, Sergei Grant, and Franklin Sirmans
Art & Insight: A Talk with Kate Capshaw, Sergei Grant, and Franklin Sirmans
December 3, 2024
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Past Event
Join us to mark the opening of Kate Capshaw: Exclusive Tonsorial Services at PAMM with an Artist Talk featuring Kate Capshaw, Sergei (Sirj) Grant, her Miami-born and raised portrait subject, and PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans.
Detail view of "Sir.J", 64" x 54", oil on linen, 2024.
Utilizing the genre of portrait painting—one of the oldest traditions of human picture making—Kate Capshaw creates artworks that explore the socioeconomics of the contemporary moment in America through the narrative of an individual.
Her previous work, Unaccompanied, is an ongoing series of portraits that give voice to those who are often voiceless, unhoused youth. For this new installation at PAMM, Capshaw has engaged in a months-long conversation with Sergei (Sirj) Grant, who was born in North Miami Beach and graduated from Carol City Senior High School in Miami Gardens, on the northern edge of Miami-Dade County. Grant, an entrepreneurial barber plying his trade all around Miami, also teaches and mentors young barbers. His story is one of challenge met with triumph and will be highlighted in this special exhibition. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from the artist firsthand.
Schedule
12:30–1:30pm Artist talk
Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. The conversation will be live-streamed on YouTube Live and available post-program. Simultaneous interpretation into American Sign Language, Haitian Creole, and Spanish will be available.
About Kate Capshaw
Kate Capshaw (b. 1953, Fort Worth, Texas) was raised in Ferguson, Missouri. She attended the University of Missouri–Columbia receiving a B.A. in education and a Master of Education in special education in 1976, after which she taught for two years. She set up primary and secondary Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for students with learning differences in the rural consolidated district of Southern Boone County.
Capshaw began her art studies in drawing, painting, and portraiture in 2009. In 2016, she saw a way to use portraiture to bring public awareness to youth homelessness. The work received critical attention in 2019 when Capshaw was selected as a finalist in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's prestigious juried triennial: the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Following their selection, the portraits debuted in the exhibition The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today. The national tour opened at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in October 2019, in Washington, D.C. It concluded at the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis in January 2022. Since 2023, the series has toured as a solo exhibition to the Bo Bartlett Gallery at Columbus State University (February 2023) and Henry Street Settlement in New York City (November 2023). Two new portraits featuring Henry Street community members were featured at The Park Avenue Armory in November 2023 and the New York Academy of Art in January 2024.