Join us for a book signing and conversation with photographer Gerald Incandela, whose work explores the emotional charge of everyday life through careful portraiture and painterly composition. A new retrospective of Incandela’s work, Gerald Incandela: Photographic Drawings, will be on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Connecticut) until May 10. Copies of the catalogue produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Gerald Incandela, will be available for purchase. A book signing with the artist will follow the talk.

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Santa Barbara-based artist Gerald Incandela (b. 1952) is renowned for his innovative development processes that blend drawing and photography. Born in Tunisia and educated in philosophy and art history in France, Incandela got his start in the 1970s in London before moving to the United States. His work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including important presentations such as Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff (1978) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Altered Photograph at MoMA PS1 (1979), and Queer Lens: A History of Photography (2025) at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Incandela’s work is held in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.