Artist Talk with Jean Roberts-Guequierre, Adam Stoner, and Theresa Abel moderated by Lisa H Cooper
Jean Roberts-Guequierre, Adam Stoner, and Theresa Abel - Modern Medieval
Roberts-Guequierre, Stoner, and Abel are contemporary painters who all draw inspiration from medieval art history creating paintings that are decisively modern. Adam Stoner makes paintings, drawings, and video installations that visualize the intimate con-nections between architecture and our imagined interiorities. His research frequently explores the memory of space, the latent agency of materials, and the architectures—visible or invisi-ble—which emerge from contact with the sacred. Influenced by the work of the Flemish Primitives in the 15th & 16th Century Northern Renaissance and German Expressionism, Jean Roberts-Guequierre delicately renders traditional oil paintings which explore contemporary themes. Making art with humor, empathy and a bawdy eye, Jean tells a wry tale of human connections and foibles. Theresa Abel incorporates historic techniques from the late Medieval and the early Renaissance creating meditations on life purpose, morality, and mortality. These paintings contain a strong narrative to tell stories about how modern-day art can be viewed as a kind of religion, often blending personal biography with biblical stories, lives of the saints, and other tales that can be viewed as fiction or dogma.
We are pleased to be joined by Lisa H. Cooper on March 15, 2026, at 2pm who will moderate a talk with these three artists. Cooper is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in the literature and culture of late medieval England; her scholarly invest-ments lie particularly in the intertwined histories of labor, technology, science, material culture, and the practices of daily life from the twelfth through fifteenth centuries.
