SPRING 2010 VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
School of the Arts
SCHOOL OF ART+DESIGN
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Purchase, NY 10577
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The School of Art+Design Visiting Artist's Talks brings to campus noted artists, curators, critics and historians who share their perspectives and expertise on their own work and provide insight into current issues facing the contemporary artist and designer.
WHEN: Wednesdays at 6:30PM
WHERE: Visual Arts Building | RM 1016 | Directions | Park in W-1 lot
COST: Free & Open to the Public
ARTISTS:
Jan 27 - Alex Bag
Feb 17 - Dannielle Tegeder
Feb 23 - Yuri Kobayashi (reschedule date Feb 23)
Feb 24 - Patty Chang
Mar 03 - Dan Hurlin
Mar 10 - Suzanne McClelland
Mar 17 - Nina Katchadourian
Mar 24 - Bruce Willen & Nolen Strals
Apr 07 - Dasha Shishkin
Apr 14 - Philip Lorca DiCorcia
Apr 21 - Florencio Gelabert
Apr 28 - Bright Ugochukwu Eke
May 05 - Sarah Walker
January 27
Alex Bag | Video Artist
New York artist Alex Bag creates videos and installations that comment on contemporary media culture. Bag adopts a ‘performative’ approach in responding to television, acting out everyday characters that are affected by it. The dark humor in her work often turns on the art world, satirizing its mode of operation. Alex Bag earned a B.F.A. from Cooper Union. Her work has appeared in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions around the world. Alex Bag is represented by Elizabeth Dee Gallery.
February 17
Dannielle Tegeder | Painter (BFA Alumna '94)
Dannielle Tegeder is a painter who makes use of a broad range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, sound and digital media to construct conceptual spaces that are inspired by architectural blueprints and technological sketches. Prior to her talk on February 17th an Opening Reception will be held at 5pm in the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery (same building as talk) for her solo show, David Schwarz Project 12: Dannielle Tegeder which will be on view February 15th – March 26, 2009.
February 23 *New Rescheduled Date*
Yuri Kobayashi | Furniture Designer, Spring 2010 Artist in Residence
Born and raised in Japan, Yuri Kobayashi received her BA degree in architecture design at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. After training in traditional Japanese woodworking, she moved to the U.S. to pursue an MFA degree in woodworking and furniture design at San Diego State University. Currently she divides her time between teaching at Rhode Island School of Design and producing her own work. Being influenced by her origin, her work is a reflection of her identity, experience and empathy. Utilizing predominantly wood, she employs repetitive manners to create concept-based objects with an emphasis on the sculptural form. For additional information visit… http://yurikobayashi.com/
February 24
Patty Chang | Performance Artist
Patty Chang is a performance artist who is notorious for testing the limits of endurance and taste. Originally trained as a painter, Patty Chang graduated with a B.A. from the University of California in San Diego in 1994 and shortly after moved to New York, where she became involved with the Performance scene. Her performances, recorded in short films, became notorious for testing the limits of endurance and taste. Chang has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1999), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2000), and the Rockefeller Foundation (2003). In 2003, she served as resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She lives and works in New York.
March 3
Dan Hurlin | Sculptor
Writer, director, actor, and puppeteer Dan Hurlin has been creating original puppet theater since 1980, combining puppets with human actors in dance and drama. Public exploitation in the guise of kindness is a recurrent theme. Dan Hurlin's performance work has been seen in New York City at Dance TheaterWorkshop, P. S. 122, Danspace, The Kitchen, St Ann's Warehouse, as well as alternative presenting spaces throughout the U. S. and internationally. His suite ofpuppet pieces, Everyday Uses for Sight: Nos. 3 & 7, earned him a BESSIE Award in 1998. His most recent works are Hiroshima Maiden and Disfarmer. The latterwas inspired by the story of the 40 year career (1915-1959) of portrait photographer, Mike Disfarmer.
March 10
Suzanne McClelland | Visual Artist
Suzanne McClelland views drawing as a form of writing and writing as a form of drawing and listening as a form of observation. She translates sound into visual material. Suzanne McClelland is a visual artist represented by Sue Scott Gallery and has recently exhibited with Larissa Goldston Gallery and David Krut Projects. Public Exhibitions include: Orlando Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Gallery and The Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris. Upcoming solo exhibitions will be held in Zurich at Galerie Andres Thalmann and in Chicago at Shane Campbell Gallery. Her work is held in many collections including The Martin Margulies Collection, MOMA, Whitney Museum and the Judith Rothschild Foundation. She has been awarded several grants including The Nancy Graves Grant, The Axa Award, selected by Elizabeth Murray and the Pollack Krasner Award. McClelland currently teaches in the MFA departments at SVA and Pratt.
March 17
Nina Katchadourian | Multimedia Artist
New York artist Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, Sculpture Center, and the Palais de Tokyo. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
March 24
Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals | Graphic Designers
Originally conceived in 2001 as an avant-garde anti-design movement, Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen incorporated Post Typography in 2007 as a full time design studio specializing in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism. Based in Baltimore, their work has received numerous fancy design awards and has been featured in such books as Graphic Design: The New Basics, Area 2, Contemporary Graphic Design, as well as Pyramyd Editions’ new monograph of the studio's work. Post Typography have appeared in multiple design and art exhibitions, and their posters are collected by high school punk rockers and prominent designers (whom they consider equally important). Strals and Willen teach design and typography at MICA, and have lectured at the Cooper Union, MCAD, and Harvard University. The studio recently wrote and designed Lettering & Type, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2009.
April 7
Dasha Shishkin | Painter/Printmaker
Moscow born, painter/printmaker, Dasha Shishkin who earned her MFA from Columbia, creates a world populated by bathers, servants, police, armless lovers, mutant animals and severed heads. Her images are part allegory, part macabre carnival and always captivating.
April 14
Philip-Lorca diCorcia | Photographer
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is often acknowledged as one of the most influential photographers of his generation, and his work is frequently shown alongside that of his peers in exhibitions addressing our cultural zeitgeist. DiCorcia has received numerous awards including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including MOMA, LACMA, the Whitney Museum of Art and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. DiCorciq currently lives qnd works in New York City and is represented by David Zwirner Gallery.
April 21
Florencio Gelabert | Multimedia Artist
Currently, Florencio Gelabert's work focuses on power, destruction and violence as global problems of a new age as well as the relationship between people and the environment.
The majority of Gelabert's work is created in three-dimensional art forms, such as sculptures and installations; in the last decade, however, he has begun to experiment with drawings and photography. Promoting awareness of the responsibility that people have in preserving the earth and its natural resources is a current focus. His goal is to create art that transcends geographic, social and political barriers, and to encourage communication between people. Visit: www.florenciogelabert.com
April 28
Bright Ugochukwu Eke – Contemporary Artist
Moderator: Marie-Thérèse Brincard, Curatorial Advisor, African Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art.
The environment and man’s gradual destruction of the ecosystem is the focus of Bright Ugochukwu Eke’s work that he will present in a gallery talk at the School of Art+ Design on April 28 at 6: 30 pm. That same day, at 4: 00 pm at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Eke will join panelists Lisa Binder, Assistant Curator, Museum for African Art, New York; Marie-Thérèse Brincard, Curatorial Advisor, African Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art; Lowery Stokes Sims, Curator, Museum of Arts & Design, New York; and Robert Storr, Professor of Painting/Printmaking and Dean of the School of Art at Yale. Panelists will discuss what is happening before their eyes as the installation of El Anatsui's work Nukae (2006) takes place. http://www.neuberger.org/ | http://u-bright.blogspot.com/
May 5
Sarah Walker | Painter
"Levels of Squalor: Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarding and the Aesthetics of Profusion"
How does information overload look when refracted through the prism of obsessive-compulsive hoarding disorder? Peering into the world hoarders, we will survey how strategies for saving everything can create new systems that address maximum states of complexity.
Sarah Walker is an abstract painter who shows at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn and at the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco. Walker holds a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Born in Bethesda, Maryland Walker lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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