Artists Panel: "Memory as Motivation"

Radcliffe Bailey, whose retrospective “Memory as Medicine” examines the intersections of family and global history, returns to the McNay to join local artists Carl Rice Embrey, Marilyn Lanfear, and César Martínez in a panel discussion to explore how personal memories are used in their artistic processes. Embrey began painting in an abstract expressionist style in the 1960s, then moved on to expressionism with elements of representation. Compared to Edward Hopper for his command of light, he is now acclaimed for his highly detailed realist studies of his boyhood home in Hamilton. Born in Waco and raised in Corpus Christi, Lanfear is a storyteller who mixes new constructions of lead, plaster, and wood with cast-off finds to illustrate family tales that blend into the myths of Texas. Martínez was born in Laredo and is known for his paintings of pachucos. He came to prominence as a major figure in the Chicano art movement of the 1970s and his work has been shown in San Francisco, Chicago, and Mexico City. Free; 6:30pm, Chiego Lecture Hall at McNay Art Museum, 6000 N New Braunfels, (210) 824-5368, mcnayart.org.