To mark the closing of Comfort Corners, Foyer-LA will host a conversation between artist Ellie Krakow and Ted Meyer about the ways Krakow's experience of chronic illness has informed her artwork. The conversation will offer insight into the personal and artistic research behind the works on view. Guests are welcome to arrive early or stay afterward to explore the exhibition.

Ellie Krakow is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Grounded in her experience of chronic illness, her current project Comfort Corners merges bodily forms with elements of hospital design. Her work aims to reveal the often-overlooked realities of illness and claim a place for the sick body within the lineage of figurative sculpture. Krakow’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including at Simone Subal, Underdonk and Marinaro, and has been supported by residencies at Sharpe-Walentas, Skowhegan and Yaddo.

Ted Meyer is an artist, curator, writer, and patient advocate whose work opens vital conversations around pain, disfigurement, survival, and the complexities of living fully with chronic illness. As Artist-in-Residence at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, he creates projects that deepen physician-patient communication while building platforms for patients to tell their own stories.