Seattle artist Natalie Krick complicates the act of looking by manipulating photographs through distortion and collage for the exhibition Boren Banner Series: Natalie Krick, inspired by Bert Stern's The Complete Last Sitting, which documents the last photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe.

Joined by art historian and writer Kim Beil, the two will investigate this body of work first through their personal experience working together as photographer and model. This discussion will set the stage for a broader exploration of photographic portraiture, fashion, pop culture, and Marilyn Monroe.

About the presenters:

Natalie Krick (born 1986, Portland, Oregon) holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. In 2015 Krick was a recipient of an Individual 5 Frye Art Museum Photographer's Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation for her project Natural Deceptions. In 2017, Natural Deceptions was published by Skylark Editions, and Krick was awarded the Aperture Portfolio Prize. Recent exhibitions include those at SF Camerawork, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Aperture Foundation, The Museum of Sex, and Blue Sky Gallery. Her photography has been highlighted in international publications including BOMB, The New Yorker, Vogue Italia, PDN, Aperture, and Vrij Nederland.

Kim Beil is an art historian who teaches at Stanford University. She is the author of two books: Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography (Stanford UP, 2020) and Anonymous Objects: Inscrutable Photographs and the Unknown (MACK, 2023). Her writing on photography and visual culture also appears in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Believer, and Cabinet magazines, among many other publications.