Summary: March 5, 2007 6:00 p.m. In a panel discussion moderated by Roxana Marcoci, curator of the exhibition, artists Polly Apfelbaum, Inka Essenhigh, and Gary Simmons address the creative misalliance between abstraction and comic forms of representation in their work. The panel probes issues pertaining to humor in relation to a critical interpretation of war and global conflicts as well as gender and ethnic stereotyping. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making. Photo courtesy of Paula Court
