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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, March 20\, at 6 pm for a conversation with 
 acclaimed American artist and MassArt alumnus Steve Locke BFA '97\, MFA '0
 1\, H'22 as we celebrate the launch of his first career monograph Steve Lo
 cke: I Said What I Said (MASS MoCA/DelMonico Books)\, edited with text by 
 MASS MoCA curator Evan Garza.\n\nThe conversation will take place in the T
 ower Auditorium at MassArt\, 621 Huntington Avenue\, Boston\, MA\, followe
 d by a book signing in the West Tower Lobby Gallery. Free and open to the 
 public. Copies of Steve Locke: I Said What I Said will be available for pu
 rchase after the talk.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. For t
 hose who are unable to make it in-person\, the event will be livestreamed 
 here.\n\nSteve Locke: I Said What I Said explores three decades of Locke
 ’s career and grew out of their recent exhibition\, Steve Locke: the fir
 e next time at MASS MoCA (Aug 2024–Nov 2025)\, selected among the Top Te
 n in Artforum’s Best of 2024. The two will discuss Locke’s bodies of w
 ork featured in the monograph and the artist’s career-long conceptual ex
 ploration of portraiture\, perceptions of the male figure\, and themes of 
 modernism and racial violence.\n\nWorking in painting\, drawing\, installa
 tion\, sculpture\, and public art\, Locke brings to light our dark past an
 d present\, looking closely at America’s history of racial violence and 
 spectacle. In his interdisciplinary practice\, Locke engages issues of ide
 ntity\, desire\, race\, violence\, and memory\, revealing as much tenderne
 ss and humor as he does brutality. Primarily concerned with how we ascribe
  meaning to portraiture while exploring the relationships between and amon
 g men\, in recent years Locke has introduced a more personal\, political\,
  and critical engagement with histories of racism and anti-Blackness\, the
  Western canon of art history\, and American society.\n\nSteve Locke (b.19
 63\, Cleveland\, OH) lives and works in the Hudson Valley and New York Cit
 y. He earned his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, wh
 ere he taught for more than 20 years. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of
  Fine Arts Degree from MassArt in 2022. Locke has been the subject of solo
  exhibitions at MASS MoCA (2024)\; Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech (2022
 )\; The Gallatin Galleries\, New York University (2019)\; Isabella Stewart
  Gardner Museum\, Boston (2018)\; Boston Public Library (2018)\; Bard Coll
 ege at Simon’s Rock (2018)\; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2014)\;
  and the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston (2013).\n\nEvan Garza is a
  writer\, Fulbrighter\, and curator at MASS MoCA. Previously\, Garza was o
 ne of six fellows in the museum’s Curatorial Exchange Initiative (CEI) p
 rogram\, for which they curated the exhibition Steve Locke: the fire next 
 time (2024). Before arriving at MASS MoCA\, Garza was a Fulbright Scholar 
 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and served as Artistic Director o
 f the 2021 Texas Biennial. Garza edited the forthcoming career monograph\,
  Steve Locke: I Said What I Said\, co-published by DelMonico Books and MAS
 S MoCA (March 17\, 2026). Garza earned their M.A. from the Williams Gradua
 te Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute.\n\nPhoto Cred
 it: Taylor Miller. Book design: Amy Chen.
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SUMMARY:I Said What I Said: Steve Locke and Evan Garza in Conversation
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