An event with artist Joey Terrill originally scheduled for Feb. 2 has been postponed. A new date has not yet been announced.

In Conversation with Artist Joey Terrill is part of programming for the exhibition Friends and Lovers (on view through March 2, 2025). Terrill will join curator James Glisson, SBMA Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art, in conversation.

Terrill’s artistic practice has varied over the years from a zine, Homeboy Beautiful, to still lives, such as Still-Life with Triumeq and Wrapped Candies that Remind Me of the Artist Félix González-Torres, which is on display in the Loeb Gallery.

Left: Joey Terrill, Still-Life with Triumeq and Wrapped Candies that remind me of Félix Gonzáles-Torres, 2023. Acrylic, wrapped candies, wallpaper, and other mixed media. SBMA, Museum Purchase with funds from Kandy Budgor; Luria/Budgor Family Foundation. Image courtesy of the Artist and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles. Right: Joey Terrill, My Last Day in New York, Fire Island- 1981, 2015. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of the artist and Ortuzar Projects, New York. © Joey Terrill. Credit: Timothy Doyon photo

Terrill joins diverse mediums of zine-making, performance, printmaking, collage, and painting in a body of work that tenderly encompasses his intimate experiences of intersecting queer, Chicano and artistic communities. Drawing from the existing visual culture surrounding him, Terrill combines personal photographs, found pop cultural imagery and reproductions of artworks by queer predecessors to conjure utopian landscapes.

The event will be at SBMA’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St., Santa Barbara.
Free for students and teachers/$10 SBMA members/$15 non-members.

Get tickets at tickets.sbma.net.