Justine Kurland: This Train, 2005-2011

Justine Kurland is an artist known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. Her early work comprises photographs, taken during many cross-country road trips, that counter the masculinist mythology of the American landscape, offering a radical female imaginary in its place. Her recent series of collages, SCUMB Manifesto, continues to make space for women by transforming books by canonized male photographers into a new feminist form. Kurland’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Getty Museum, California; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, among others.

Lynne Tillman’s novels include Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; American Genius, A Comedy, and Men and Apparitions. Other books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967, photographs by Stephen Shore: What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Someday This Will Be Funny. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and the Katherine Anne Porter award. Her most recent work, MOTHERCARE, is an autobiographical book-length essay on caring for a sick parent for 11 years.