Join exhibiting artists Noel Anderson and Christopher Page in conversation around the themes in the current Clifford Gallery exhibition HOLES.About the artists:Noel W Anderson (b. Louisville, Ky.) received an MFA from Indiana University in Printmaking, and an MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. He is an assistant professor at The New School. Anderson utilizes print-media and arts-based-research to explore the mediation of socially constructed images, with particular focus on black masculinity and celebrity. He incorporates images from archival and contemporary sources, using both bureaucratic and commercial references. More than a surface, his works are sites where body politics and myth combine as networks of manipulation. Through the investigation of process, the viewer may anticipate police looming behind black male bodies standing in a line, and public artifacts looming in the social consciousness.In 2018, Noel was awarded the NYFA artist fellowship grant and the prestigious Jerome Prize. His solo exhibition Blak Origin Moment debuted at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati) in February 2017 and traveled to the Hunter Museum of American Art in October 2019. His first monograph, Blak Origin Moment, was also recently published by‎ Black Dog Publishing. His first NY museum exhibition, Black Excellence, opens this fall at the University Art Museum at the University of Albany (SUNY).Christopher Page is a painter of light, shadow and reflection. He makes  trompe l’oeil  paintings on canvas, and directly on walls and ceilings, that confuse the boundaries between real and virtual space. Paintings of framed paintings with shadows cast across their surfaces call into question where the work begins and ends; mirrors that don't reflect us back confront us with our own absence; glowing skies distort architectural space. And yet, the  paintings are not trompe l’oeil in the traditional sense. Whilst drawing from Baroque illusion, they hover on the edge of abstraction, thinking as they do about our flattened world of screens.Page’s work has been exhibited internationally. His work was recently included in ‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York NY (2023). He has previously exhibited at Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy and Museum of Contemporary Art Storefront, Los Angeles Calif.To be followed by the opening reception for HOLES in the lobby of Little Hall