AN ART ON SCREEN FILM
PECKER + Guy Mendes and Patrick Smith
TUE, JAN 28 10 @ 7:15PM
Join us for another film event in our new series, ART ON SCREEN. We're proud to present John Waters' film Pecker, with special guests, photographer Guy Mendes and painter Patrick Smith, in conversation with UK Art Museum director Stuart Horodner.
ABOUT THE FILM
A talented young photographer, who enjoys snapping photos of his satirical, perverted Baltimore neighborhood and his wacky family, gets dragged into a world of pretentious artists from New York City and finds newfound fame.
ABOUT GUY MENDES AND PATRICK SMITH
Guy Mendes, an American artist and photographer, was born in 1948. Numerous galleries and museums, including the UK Art Museum have featured Mendes' work. Mendes has been featured in articles for ARTnews, Burnaway, and Juxtapoz. Patrick Smith is a Lexington-based painter known for his realistic works on paper based on photographs he takes of various friends. These detailed works are informed by the artist's deep interest in the history of representational art, and his process of collaborating with his sitters on their poses, costume, makeup, and lighting.
ABOUT ART ON SCREEN
Hundreds of films explore the arts and the lives of artists. ART ON SCREEN seeks to broaden an interest in the arts through the creative pairing of films about art and artists with entertaining discussions by notable speakers from the world of art and art history.
ART ON SCREEN is made possible through the generous support of Jackie Hamilton.