Funny Business: Photography and Humor Gallery Talk with Emilia Mickevicius

Join us for a private tour and gallery talk with curator Emilia Mickevicius at Phoenix Art Museum.

About this Event

presents 70 photographs that showcase the mechanics of photographic humor, while examining the reasons for which artists throughout time have employed it as a strategy in their work.

Funny Business is arranged in four thematic sections:

• All the World's a Stage - highlighting slapstick and observational comedy.
• Inside Jokes - highlights photographers’ adoption of a tongue-in-cheek attitude toward their predecessors and the conventions and aesthetics of the medium itself.
• Context is Everything - explores how subjects and photographic images can become absurd, ironic, and nonsensical when shown outside of their original contexts or in unexpected juxtaposition with one another.
• Comic Relief - featuring artists who use humor in a critical or subversive manner to explore issues of identity and belonging, politics, and general dimensions of contemporary life.

At this event, you'll have the opportunity to meet and hear perspectives about the exhibition from , the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a curatorial position shared by Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography.

This event is free and open to 25 attendees with registration here on Eventbrite. Membership is not required. Admission to Phoenix Art Museum is pay-what-you-wish on Wednesday evenings.

WE WILL MEET IN THE LOBBY AT 5:45PM, PLEASE BE PROMT.

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Images Above: Jo Ann Callis, Parrot and Sailboat, 1980, 1980. Dye transfer print. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona: Purchase, 86.16.5. © Jo Ann Callis and Emilia Mickevicius (her portrait)

Image Below: Bucky Miller, Lucy, 2024. Inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist © Bucky Miller

About the Curator

Emilia Mickevicius is an art historian and curator who specializes in 20th century and contemporary U.S. photography. She joined the Phoenix Art Museum and CCP in 2023 after having served at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In her role as curatorial assistant in SFMOMA’s photography department, she organized and contributed to exhibitions such as Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection (2022); (2023), the current SFMOMA exhibit, (2023) among others.

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