CONTINGENt: drawing and sculpture by Joan Tanner

Ideas on impermanence and inconsistency haunt the works of Southern California artist Joan Tanner. Tanner was a painter, primarily, when her career began in the 1960s, but she's changed media throughout the decades, from assembly and collage to a modern preference from sculpture and installation. She grounds her shifting practice in the activity of drawing, a testing ground for the ideas she'll conceptualize in grander works. CONTINGENt: drawing and sculpture by Joan Tanner, on display at the Hilliard Museum from May 23—September 16, is the artist's first Louisiana exhibition. Tanner will visit for an Artist & Curator Talk on September 6 and a public reception on September 8. hilliardmuseum.org.