One Painting at a Time with Joyce Tsai and Geo Barrios

Wed, Jul 15, 2026 06:00 PM - 07:30 PM MDT Venue : Clyfford Still Museum Export to : iCal, Google Category: Talks, Galleries open 6–6:30 p.m. Talk in galleries 6:30–7:30 p.m. Join CSM director Joyce Tsai and CSM Institute Fellow Alum Geo Barrios for a special edition of One Painting at a Time, a program that invites close looking, open-ended dialogue, and personal interpretation. One Painting at a Time challenges us to look beyond our first impressions and spend quality time with a single painting. The program departs from the idea that Clyfford Still intended his artwork to be open to interpretation and did not title his paintings. Each program is unique, with the format and conversation determined by the speaker, who has free rein to choose a painting from the 843 in the Museum’s collection. In honor of the Museum’s 15th anniversary, Joyce Tsai will present a series of three talks on never-before-seen paintings from the Museum’s collection. In this program, Tsai will discuss Clyfford Still’s PH-882, exploring the work through the lens of conservation. The program is $5 for the public and free for CSM members; registration is required to attend in person at the Clyfford Still Museum. Register Please note: The immersive soundscapes for Still in Sound will be turned off throughout the duration of this program. Joyce Tsai, PhD, is the director of the Clyfford Still Museum and is an internationally acclaimed curator, scholar, and teacher. She arrived at the Clyfford Still Museum in August 2021 from the University of Iowa, where she served as Chief Curator of the Stanley Museum of Art and Associate Professor of Practice in the School of Art and Art History. Dr. Tsai is trained as an intellectual historian and art historian — Princeton, AB (History, cum laude) ; Johns Hopkins University, MA (German) , PhD (Art History and Humanities) . Tsai’s first book, László Moholy-Nagy: Painting after Photography (UC Press, 2018) , garnered critical acclaim for its integrated approach to avant-garde art, practice, and theory, and was named the winner of the Phillips Collection Book Prize. She has published extensively in the field of technical art history, collaborating with conservators and conservation scientists at the National Gallery of Art, Harvard Art Museums, the Guggenheim, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Geovanni “Geo” Barrios is a musician and visual artist whose work explores the evolution of American masculinity. Originally trained as an orchestral tubist, he transitioned into performance art, developing a multidisciplinary practice that examines identity, power, and social structures through music, drawing, sculpture, and archival research. Barrios holds a BA in Art History from Yale University and has worked in arts conservation at the Yale University Art Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His experiences with historical objects and preservation techniques inform his artistic practice. As a musician, he has performed across the United States at venues such as the Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Yale Center for British Art, and Yale University Art Gallery, as well as internationally in Mexico, Brazil, and Germany.