Art Talks at Brand is a series that invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it, followed by a moderated Q&A with Brand staff member, artist, and writer Jennifer Remenchik. Art Talks at Brand artists are selected to reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area. Working in sculpture and drawing, Los Angeles-based artist Shana Hoehn considers modes and conditions of agency, embodiment, and transformation. Hoehn's sculptural work combines traditional and digital fabrication techniques and employs various materials, including wood, sawdust, clay, and metal. Hoehn's work references a long and winding history of women contorting and the bodily destruction involved with transformation. These sculptural contortionists appear to levitate, fold, collapse, hatch, split, and splinter like eternally petrified shapeshifters. Animated by unseen forces, Hoehn's figures twist and bend in acts of refusal and self-transformation. Hoehn received her MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Sculpture and Extended Media and earned a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been in numerous group exhibitions and has been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at Jack Barrett Gallery, New York City, NY (2023); Deli Gallery, Mexico City, MX (2023), Prairie, Chicago, IL (2023); Make Room, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Art Pace, San Antonio, TX (2022); Euqinom Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2021), among others. The Art Talks at Brand series is sponsored by the Brand Associates. All programs are free and open to the public. Arrive early to view the exhibition, "PERSERVERANCE: 20 Years of Thinkspace.” For more information on Art Talks at Brand, please visit our website: BrandLibrary.org/Art-Talks Images: Artist portrait; Shana Hoehn. “Basket Toss,” 2022-2023. Cedar, wood pulp, steel rod, bronze. 59x13x75 in; Images courtesy of the artist --- Free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library. For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at (818) 548-2051 or send us an email at Info@BrandLibrary.org.