CRITICAL DIALOGUES
Lecture Series - Spring 2008
Public Lecture, every Wednesday at
11:00a.m.
President’s Hall
Tyler School of Art
Sponsored by the Department of Painting,
Drawing and Sculpture
INSTRUCTOR: PROFESSOR ODILI DONALD
ODITA
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30TH – GEAN MORENO
Gean Moreno has exhibited his work
internationally since the end of the
1990s. Most recently, his work has been
presented at The Institute of Visual Arts
in Milwaukee and The Haifa Museum. Between
2002-2006, Moreno was Director of
Programming at Locust Projects in Miami.
Alongside his work as a visual artist,
Moreno has organized exhibitions as an
independent curator. He is a contributing
editor for Art Papers magazine, on the
editorial board of ArtUS, and has
contributed essays to numerous exhibition
catalogues. In 2007, Gean Moreno was
awarded The Emilio Sanchez Visual Arts
Award given by The Oscar B. Cintas
Foundation.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6TH – SHOSHANA DENTZ
Shoshana Dentz’s work includes paintings
on paper and canvas, as well as
site-specific painting projects. Her work
has been exhibited at The Drawing Center
in New York, The Spertus Museum, in
Chicago, The Center for the Arts at
Wesleyan University, and The Rose Art
Museum in Waltham, MA. She has held solo
exhibitions at Angles Gallery in Los
Angeles, and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery,
Mixed Greens, and White Columns in New
York. Recent awards include a Pollock
Krasner Foundation Grant, a New York
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in
Drawing, and a Special Editions Fellowship
with the Lower East Side Printshop in New
York. She received her BA in Fine Arts
from Brandeis University and her MFA from
The Milton Avery Graduate School of the
Arts at Bard College.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13TH – CARRIE MOYER
Carrie Moyer is a New York-based painter
as well as co-founder of the renowned
public art project, Dyke Action Machine!
Her paintings and agitprop interventions
have been widely exhibited both nationally
and internationally, including such venues
as PS1, The Palm Beach ICA, The
Weatherspoon, Cooper-Hewitt and The Tang
Museums, Shedhalle (Zurich), Le Magasin (Grenoble)
and The Project Centre (Dublin), among
others. Moyer has written for Modern
Painters, The Brooklyn Rail and Art in
America. She is represented by CANADA
Gallery in New York City. Moyer is
Assistant Professor of Painting at The
Rhode Island School of Design.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20TH – CARTER KUSTERA
Carter Kustera is a Canadian born New
York-based artist, who has shown
nationally and internationally, including
two Venice Biennales. His career has
spanned 20 years making work addressing
issues of identity in a range of mediums
and materials from works on paper,
paintings, hand made magazines, sculpture,
ceramics, installation, performance art
and video, to illustration and consumer
products. Carter Kustera’s recent,
poignant and witty “Fabulous Anger” series
comprises a provocative body of work that
explores the commodification of violence.
Kustera takes a critical look at the way
violence is presented through the media
and questions our threshold for its
acceptable presentation.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 27TH – CARL POPE
Carl Pope’s strongest artistic influence
continues to be his high school
photography teacher, Donna Hostettler, who
endorsed the notion that art is an
effective tool for positive change. His
multi media investigations of the hidden
histories were shown at prestigious venues
including The Museum of Modern Art, and
The Museum of Contemporary Photography in
Chicago, and in “Black Male” at The
Whitney Museum of American Art in 1994.
Pope has received generous grant and
support projects from The Guggenheim
Foundation, The Lilly Endowment, The
National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy
Warhol Foundation, The Lannan Foundation
and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.
In 1996, Pope expanded his interest in
public art to include projects using
himself as the main subject. The initial
excursions into his internal landscape
produced the video/text installation
“Palimpsest” commissioned by the Wadsworth
Anthnaeum, and also included in the 2000
Whitney Biennial. Pope’s installation of
letterpress posters, “The Bad Air Smelled
of Roses” and his recent public
billboard/poster artworks focuses on the
mind as the primary space for personal and
social change. Pope was an Assistant
Professor at SUNY-Stony Brook and The
University of Illinois at Chicago.
Currently, Pope is a Joint Fellow at The
Baker-Nord Center for The Humanities at
Case Western Reserve University and The
Cleveland Institute of Art.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19TH – THOMAS
NOZKOWSKI
Thomas Nozkowski is a painter who has had
over sixty one-person shows of his work
since 1979. His most recent exhibitions
include an installation of new work at la
Biennale di Venezia (2007), a career
survey at the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz,
Germany (2007) and one-person exhibitions
at Max Protetch Gallery and BravinLee
Projects, New York (2006). The New York
Studio School presented a twenty-five year
survey of his drawings in January 2003. He
is represented in the collections of the
Addison Gallery of American Art, The
Brooklyn Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, The High Museum of Art, The Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of
Modern Art and The Phillips Collection
among many others. He is a Guggenheim
fellow and has received the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Medal of Merit
(2006). He is Professor of Painting at the
Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers
University. Nozkowski is represented by
PaceWildenstein (New York) and Haunch of
Venison (London). He lives in the Hudson
Valley of New York State.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26TH – LESLIE WAYNE
Leslie Wayne aims to inspire a sensation
that’s analogous to observing nature, her
forms echoing a kind of morphogenesis
where the colors and shapes find their
vocabulary in an arena of inevitability.
In this regard, her paintings are their
own form of landscape as visual
manifestations of physical forces. Leslie
Wayne was born in Germany, grew up in
California, and received her BFA in
Sculpture from Parsons School of Design in
1984. She is the recipient of a 2006 New
York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in
Painting, and has received grants from the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The New York
State Council on the Arts, Adolph and
Esther Gottlieb Foundation, The Buhl
Foundation, Artist’s Space, and Change,
Inc. Her work is in the public collections
of The Foundation to-Life, Inc., The
Birmingham Museum of Art, British Airways,
Colleczion Thyssen Bornemisza, The
Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Cartier
Foundation, La Coleccion Jumex in Mexico
City, Harvard University, The Museum of
Contemporary Art in Miami, The Neuberger
Museum, The Progressive Corporation, Saks
Fifth Avenue and The University of Florida
in Gainesville, among others. She exhibits
regularly across the country and in
Europe, and is represented by Jack
Shainman Gallery in NYC.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2ND – OLU OGUIBE
Olu Oguibe is Associate Professor of
painting and African-American studies at
The University of Connecticut, and a
senior fellow of The Vera List Center for
Art and Politics at The New School, New
York and The Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC. His work has been
exhibited in major museums and galleries
around the world as well as international
biennials and triennials. His curatorial
credits include exhibitions for The Tate
Gallery of Modern Art, The Museo de la
Ciudad, Mexico City, and The Venice
Biennial, among others. In addition to two
decades of cultural journalism, Oguibe has
also published widely on contemporary art
and art theory, postcolonial theory, and
the sociology of new information
technologies. His most recent books
include Reading the Contemporary: African
Art from Theory to the Marketplace (MIT
Press, 2000) and The Culture Game
(University of Minnesota Press, 2004).
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9TH – PETER ROSTOVSKY
Peter Rostovsky is a Russian-born artist
who lives and works in New York. He works
in a variety of disciplines, including
sculpture and installation, but primarily
considers himself a painter. His work has
been shown widely both in the United
States and abroad, and has been exhibited
at such venues as PS1/MOMA, Artpace, The
Santa Monica Museum of Art, The ICA in
Philadelphia, The Tacoma Museum of Art,
SMAK Museum in Ghent, and a host of
private galleries including Elizabeth Dee,
Danese, Salon94, and Gio Marconi. He is
represented by The Project NY, and
currently teaches painting at New York
University.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16TH – KURT KAUPER
Kurt Kauper received a B.F.A. from Boston
University in 1988 and an M.F.A. in
painting from UCLA in 1995. He has had
solo shows at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles,
and Deitch Projects in New York City.
Kauper has been included in numerous group
exhibitions both in the United States and
Europe, including the Whitney Museum of
American Art in New York, The Pompidou
Center in Paris, and the Kunsthalle
Vienna. Kauper has received numerous
awards, including two Elizabeth
Greenshields grants; a Tiffany Foundation
Grant in 1999; and two Pollock Krasner
Foundation Grants, the first in 2001 and
the second in 2006. His work is included
in the collections of The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, The Oakland Museum of Art,
The Weatherspoon Museum, and The Yale
University Art Gallery. He has taught at
Orange Coast College, The Museum School in
Boston, Yale University, and Queens
College. Kurt Kauper’s paintings have, for
the past ten years, been images of
familiar cultural icons—Opera Divas, Cary
Grant, and hockey players—seen in a
variety of unfamiliar ways. His most
recent one-person exhibition, “Everybody
Knew That Canadians Were The Best Hockey
Players,” was at Deitch Projects in New
York City from November 8th 2007 through
January 18, 2008.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23RD – (NO PUBLIC
SPEAKER SCHEDULED)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30TH – JAMES HYDE
Born in Philadelphia and raised in
upstate, New York, James Hyde arrived in
New york City in 1977, after studying at
Rochester University, and begun appearing
in group shows in 1981. From 1986 through
1994, Hyde showed with John Good Gallery,
and from 1994 through 1997, with Paolo
Baldacci Gallery. Since 1998, James Hyde
has been represented by Brent Sikkema and
has exhibited widely at museums and
galleries, including Galerie Les Filles du
Calvaire in Paris, Elisabeth Kaufman in
Zurich, and Solvent Space in Richmond,
Virginia. Some people see Hyde’s work as
hybrid – a blend of sculpture and
painting. He doesn’t. Hyde sees it as
something that extends beyond the object:
“I’ve always been interested in what
happens in front of the painting, as
opposed to what goes on behind it.”
Fall 2007 Lecture Series
Instructor: Professor Karyn Oliver
September 5th
Dave McKenzie
Through video, performance, sculpture,
and installation, Dave McKenzie’s diverse
practice explores notions of public space
and cultural exchange in relation to the
private self. For his work While Supplies
Last (2003) at the Sculpture Center, the
artist wore a large head of his own
likeness, becoming a caricature of
himself. During the exhibition, he gave
away “bobble-head” sculptures of himself
to visitors, materializing transactions
between the body and the social spheres in
which it inhabits. For McKenzie, each
sculpture is like a handshake that can be
accepted or rejected–a moment to say,
"Hello, I am here!” and an excuse to
interact with other people. This desire to
offer himself as an artist continues in
his 2004 work It’s a Date, in which
McKenzie shared dinner with gallery
visitors who signed up to meet with him,
and his ongoing work for the Whitney
Museum of American Art’s I.P.O. For this
project, McKenzie distributed a
pre-printed date book noting his
whereabouts for the coming year and
offering his audience opportunities to
meet him at specified locations, dates,
and times.
Born 1977 in Kingston, Jamaica, Dave
McKenzie graduated from the University of
the Arts in Philadelphia and has
participated in residencies at the
Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture, P.S.1 National Studio Program
and the Studio Museum in Harlem. He has
presented solo exhibitions at Small A
Projects, Portland; Gallery 40000,
Chicago; and Savage Art Resources,
Portland. His work has also been included
in Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem;
Queens International, Queens Museum of
Art; 24/7, Contemporary Art Centre,
Vilnius; and Listening to New Voices, and
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.
McKenzie was the recipient of the 2005
William H. Johnson Prize. He lives and
works in Brooklyn
September 12th
Vasco Araújo
Vasco Araújo was born in 1975 in Lisbon,
the city where he continues to live and
work. He completed his first degree in
Sculpture in 1999 at FBAUL (Lisbon
University School of Fine Art), and
attended the Advanced Course in Visual
Arts at Maumaus in Lisbon, from 1999 to
2000. Since then, he has participated in
various solo and group exhibitions both in
Portugal and abroad, also taking part in
residency programmes, such as The
University of Arts, Philadelphia (2007);
Récollets, Paris (2005); and the Core
Program (2003/04), Houston. In 2003, he
was awarded the EDP Prize for New Artists.
Amongst his solo exhibitions have been
About being Different (2007), BALTIC
Centre for Contemporary Art, U.K.; Pathos
(2006), Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca;
Dilemma (2005), S.M.A.K., Ghent; L’inceste
(2005), Museu do Azulejo, Lisbon; The Girl
of the Golden West (2005), The Suburban,
Chicago; Dilema (2004), Museu de Serralves,
Porto; Sabine/Brunilde (2003), SNBA,
Lisbon.
Amongst his group exhibitions, the most
important have been his participation in
the “Experience of Art”, La Biennale di
Venezia. 51st International Exhibition of
Art, Venice; “Dialectics of Hope”, 1st
Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art,
Moscow, (both in 2005); Solo (For Two
Voices), CCS, Bard College (2002), New
York; “The World Maybe Fantastic” Sydney
Biennial (2002), Sydney; Trans Sexual
Express, Barcelona (2001), a Classic for
the Third Millennium (2001), Centre d’Art
Santa Mònica, Barcelona.
His work has been published in various
books and catalogues and is represented in
several public and private collections,
such as at the Centre Pompidou, Musée
d’Art Moderne (France); Fundação Calouste
Gulbenkian (Portugal); Fundación Centro
Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografía – COFF
(Spain); Museo Nacional Reina Sofia,
Centro de Arte (Spain); Fundação de
Serralves (Portugal); Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston (USA).
September 19th
Paul Ramirez Jonas
The themes of time, expiration and memory
are central to Paul Ramirez Jonas’ work.
In his projects what looks like invention
is but, re-enactment, and what seems
exploration is but walking in someone
else’s footsteps. However, not unlike a
musician reading from a score or an actor
performing from a play, the pre-existence
of a text does not preclude passion,
enthusiasm, humor and new meanings. He
holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from
Rhode Island School of Design and a
Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown
University. His honors include grants from
the National Endowment for the Arts, the
International Studio Program in Sweden,
and the Atlantic Center for the Arts,
among others. Ramirez Jonas has upcoming
exhibitions in 2007 and 2008 at The Jack
S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas;
Roger Björkholmen Galleri, Stockholm,
Sweden; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
September 26th
Nadine Robinson
Known for her large-scale sculpture and
sound installations, Nadine Robinson has
situated herself at the crossroads of the
white modernist canon and the African
American contemporary aesthetic. She works
within a sleek and minimal vocabulary,
combining appropriated music and sounds,
DJ equipment and unconventional materials
in a way that challenges our definitions
of art ,beauty and social class in
post-industrial society.
Born in London, Robinson spent the her
early years of her childhood in Jamaica
before moving to the Bronx , a borough of
New York City. Her creations evolve from
specific experiences and life influences,
with a nod to illustrative narratives,
religion and the theatricality of pop
culture, most specifically dance culture.
Nadine Robinson received her M.A. from New
York University. Her work has been on view
in such prestigious museum shows as
“Tempo,” at MOMA Queens, "Freestyle” at
the Studio Museum in Harlem, "One Planet
Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary
Art” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and
the Walker Center for the Arts, “Greater
New York” at P.S. 1, “Submerge” at the
Kunstbunker in Nuremberg, Germany, the ICA
at the University of Pennsylvania, The New
Museum of Contemporary Art and the
Salzburger Kunstverein in Austria. In
addition her work has been included in the
exhibitions “Open House: Working in
Brooklyn” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art,
“Great White” at the Bard Center for
Curatorial Studies, “Lost in Music” in the
Neuman Museum of Art and in “African
Queen” at the Studio Museum in Harlem at
the “Hairstories” exhibition at the
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Her
most recent solo exhibition , “Alles Grau”
at The Studio Musuem in Harlem was
reviewed favorably in The New York Times.
Nadine Robinson’s extensive press coverage
includes articles and reviews in The New
York Times, The New York Times Magazine,
The Village Voice, Time Out New York and V
Magazine. A large Timothy
Greenfield-Sanders portrait of Robinson
taken with her work titled “Self-Portrait
#1(China Shag),” was prominently featured
in The New York Times magazine, she has
been interviewed twice on National Public
Radio and on European and American
television features. Her solo exhibition
at Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC has been the
subject of reviews in Art in America, Tema
Celeste and The New York Times.
Her work can be seen in the book
publications Total Chaos: The Art and
Aesthetics of Hip Hop, edited by Jeff
Chang and in Phonographies: Grooves in
Sonic Afro-Modernity, author Alexander
Wehilye.
Nadine Robinson has received numerous
grants mostly in the form of residencies
and commissions and was also the recipient
of the 2003 William H. Johnson Prize for
$20.000. She has recently received a
production grant from Grand Arts, in
Kansas City MO and completed a commission
for Radioshack Corporation’s headquarters
in Texas, which is featured on the cover
of the collection’s catalogue. Her works
are in many other important art
collections, including the collection of
Agnus Gund, Peter Norton, The New Museum
of Contemporary Art and The Studio Museum
in Harlem.
October 3rd
Anoka Faruqee
Anoka Faruqee is a painter who lives and
works in Los
Angeles. She has exhibited her work in New
York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago
and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Group and solo
exhibitions include Max Protetch, and
Monya Rowe Galleries (New York), PS1
Museum (Queens),
Albright-Knox Gallery (Buffalo), Angles
Gallery (Los Angeles), Chicago Cultural
Center, and Hosfelt Gallery (San
Francisco). She received her MFA from
Tyler School of Art in 1997 and her BA
from Yale University in 1994.She attended
the Whitney Independent Study Program, the
Skowhegan School of Art, and the PS1
National Studio Program. Grants include
the Pollock
Krasner Foundation and Artadia. Faruqee
currently teaches painting and critical
theory at California Institute of the
Arts, where she is Co-Director of the Art
Program.
October 17th
Gabriela Rangel
Gabriela Rangel is the Director of Visual
Arts at the Americas Society in New York
City where she
curated the exhibitions “Beyond
Geography”, “Jump Cuts: Venezuelan
Contemporary Arts” and “ The Video Trans
Americas series with Juan Downey”. She has
co-edited and contributed to several
catalogs and books including Emancipatory
Action: Paula Trope And The Meninos, A
Principality of its Own: 40 Years of
Visual Arts at the Americas Society and
the anniversary catalogue for the Bronx
Museum. In addition, Rangel is the visual
arts editor of the journal Review:
Literature and Arts of the Americas.
Previously, Rangel was the assistant
curator of Latin American Art at the
Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Her film work
has included script writing, art direction
and producing several feature length films
and documentaries. Rangel has given
lectures at Yale University, Bard College,
Harvard University and the Iberoamerican
Institute in Berlin. Rangel holds a
graduate degree from The Center for
Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Rangel’s undergraduate and graduate
studies included media and communications
studies, film and law.
October 24th
Mary Leclere
An art historian and critic, Mary Leclère
works with the critical studies residents
in the Core Program (Museum of Fine Arts
Houston) to develop individual curatorial
projects and facilitates critical dialogue
between the artists and critics. She also
directs the new Core Residency Exhibition
Program. Her most recent exhibition was
Frances Stark: “Structures That Fit My
Opening” and Other Parts Considered in
Relation to Their Whole (December 15, 2006
– February 11, 2007).
Leclère is a PhD candidate at the
University of Virginia. Recent
publications include a catalogue essay on
Frances Stark’s work; an essay on art
criticism published in the journal
Afterall; and a catalogue essay for
Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers (REDCAT,
Los Angeles). She has also contributed
essays to exhibition catalogs for Jasper
Johns and Richard Serra: Drawings from a
New York Collection (Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston) and for Sam Durant’s work at the
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.)
in Belgium.
October 31st
Nancy Shaver
Nancy Shaver is a sculptor who received
her B.F.A. at Pratt Institute. She has
exhibited extensively in solo and group
exhibitions including the Curt Marcus
Gallery and Feature, New York; Michael
Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie
Montenay, Paris. Shaver’s work is in the
collections of Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles; Douglas S. Cramer Foundation;
Chase Manhattan Bank and the Progressive
Corporation, Ohio. Her work has been
reviewed most recently in New York Times,
Art in America, Frieze, New Yorker and
Time Out New York. Shaver has received a
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and
fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell
Colony. She is currently on the faculty of
the Milton Avery Graduate School of the
Arts at Bard College.
November 7th
Michael Smith
Michael Smith is a
video/performance/installation artist
known for his eponymous performance
persona named Mike, the central figure in
an ongoing series of large-scale narrative
based projects. Mike, an innocent who
continually falls victim to trends and
fashions as he negotiates an imperfect
landscape, allows Smith to comment on
discrepancies and absurdities in our
culture while creating an unsettling
mixture of humor and pathos.
Smith has shown his work extensively
around the US, Canada and Europe at a
variety of venues including museums,
galleries, universities, festivals, night
clubs, on television and in the streets.
In New York City he has had solo shows and
screenings at The Whitney Museum, The New
Museum, The Leo Castelli Gallery, The
Christine Burgin Gallery and the Museum of
Modern Art. In spring of 2007 Regency Arts
Press published a book of his drawings
entitled Michael Smith Drawings: Simple,
Obscure and Obtuse. This fall, Mike’s
World: Michael Smith and Joshua White (and
other collaborators), a retrospective
covering a span of 30 years of Smith’s
work, will be at The Blanton Museum in
Austin Texas Art and at the ICA in
Philadelphia in Spring 2008.
Michael Smith received his Bachelor of
Arts from The Colorado College and
attended the Whitney Museum of American
Art Independent Study Program. He has
taught in the Master of Fine Arts programs
at Yale, Cranbrook, UCLA, Art Center,
Columbia, CalArts and is currently an
assistant professor in the Department of
Art and Art History at the University of
Texas at Austin.
He has received numerous awards including
fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, The National Endowment for the
Arts and the New York Foundation for the
Arts.
November 14th
Clifford Owens
Clifford Owens’ art has appeared in
numerous group exhibitions including
Performa05, New York, NY; “Freestyle” and
“Quid Pro Quo” both at The Studio Museum
in Harlem, New York, NY; “Greater New York
2005” P.S.1, Queens, New York; “Influence,
Anxiety, Gratitude” List Visual Art
Center, Cambridge, MA. Clifford studied at
The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, Mason Gross School of Visual Art
Rutgers University, and the Whitney Museum
Independent Study Program. He was an
artist in residence at The Studio Museum
in Harlem in 2005-05 and Skowhegan School
of Painting and Sculpture in 2004.
Clifford was born in Baltimore, Maryland
in 1971 and he lives and works in Queens,
New York.
“Through photography, video and
performance, Clifford Owens investigates
the myriad ways in which we relate to one
another by engaging the pubic and placing
himself in certain social situations to
emphasize how individuals are interrelated
and also how they respond to environmental
limitations.”
---Amy Smith Stewart, Greater New York
Book 2005
“Owens’ series of Studio Visits,
2005-2006, offer the most possibility for
rethinking sculpture and the mediums with
which it overlaps…[his] work contains many
layers of inter-human relations that upset
accepted notions of sculpture, and more
broadly, how art itself is defined.”
--- Sara Reisman, Art Notes
“Owens shows himself to be the true heir
to Dadaism, persisting in his mission of
dis-comfort and dis-ruption.”
---Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, Quid Pro Quo
exhibition brochure
November 28th
Katrin Sigurdardottir
Katrin Sigurdardottir is born in
Reykjavik, Iceland in 1967. After
completing a BA in Classics, she studied
at the Icelandic College of Arts and
Crafts in Reykjavik and later earned a BFA
from the San Francisco Art Institute
followed by an MFA from Rutgers University
in 1995. In the last 10 years, her works
have been shown in 15 countries in Europe,
North and South America and are included
in numerous public and private
collections.
Katrin's studio is in New York and she
divides her time between Reykjavik and New
York. Her most recent solo exhibitions
include PS1 Contemporary Art Center, in
New York, Fonds Régional d'Art
Contemporain de Bourgogne in France and
Gallerí i8 in Reykjavík. Upcoming shows
include SMAK Contemporary Art Museum in
Ghent in Belgium, Galeria Leme in Sao
Paulo, Brazil, and European Art Projects,
Berlin.
Katrin has received numerous fellowships
and awards, including from the Louis
Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Rema Hort Mann
Foundation and The Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council. Her work has been
featured in The New York Times, Washington
Post, Die Zeit, Vogue, Surface Magazine og
L ´Officiel, along with several trade
magazines, such as Modern Painters,
Contemporary Magazine, ArtNews, Flash Art
and Kunstforum International.
In her work, Katrin examines distance and
memory and their embodiments in and
through architecture, urbanism and
cartography. Sometimes there is a mnemonic
aspect to the work, i.e. making the work
is a process of spatial recall. The places
created are frequently based on real
places, points of departure, arrival or
passage, places as minute at their spatial
and temporal distance as the models she
make of them.
December 5th
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born artist based
in New York, makes luscious yet unsettling
pictures of female figures. Her painted
and collaged works on Mylar function as
potent social critique while
simultaneously exploring more poetic
strains of mythology and allegory as well
as the sensuousness of form, color, and
pattern. Particularly interested in myths
about gender and ethnicity that have long
circulated in Africa and the West, Mutu
has adopted the medium of collage — which
by its nature evokes rupture and collision
— to depict the monstrous, the exotic, and
the feminine.
Mutu’s work has exhibited internationally
at galleries and museums including the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Miami
Art Museum, Tate Modern in London, the
Studio Museum in Harlem in New York,
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf in Germany, and the
Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her work has
been featured in several major exhibitions
including Greater New York at the P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center, The Museum of
Modern Art in New York, Black President at
the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New
York, the Barbican in London, and USA
Today at The Royal Academy in London.
She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins &
Co. in New York and Susanne Vielmetter in
Los Angeles.
Spring 2007 Lecture Series
Instructor: Professor Odili Donald Odita
Thursday, January 25th
Special time- 6:15 PM
Carlos Basualdo – Curator, Philadelphia
Museum of Art
Basualdo is Curator of Contemporary Art at
the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Art and
Design at the Università, IUAV in Venice.
Basualdo has organized and contributed to
many exhibitions around the world over the
past decade; he is the curator of
Tropicalia: Revolution in Brazilian
Culture (1967-1972) currently at the Bronx
Museum in New York (until January 28th);
he served as curator for The Structure of
Survival, as part of the 50th Venice
Biennial in 2003; and was one of the
co-curators of Documenta11 in Kassel,
Germany, in 2002.
Wednesday, January 31st
Paul Pagk – Painter
Paul Pagk has lived and worked in New York
since 1988. In 1987 Pagk has had solo
exhibitions with Galerie Jean Fournier,
Paris; in 1991 and 1993 at the Thread
Waxing Space, New York; In 1993 and 1995
at CRG Gallery, NYC. In 2003, Pagk was in
the two person exhibition, “Battle Pagk,”
curated by Adrian Dannatt at the Thomas
Erben Gallery. Pagk will have a solo show
with 2007 at Moti Hasson Gallery NYC. Mr.
Pagk’s work has been written on by
numerous critics such as Donald Kuspit,
ArtForum; Holland Cotter, The New York
Times; Franklin Sirmans, Flash Art;
Raphael Rubinstein, Art in America; and
Adrian Dannatt, Flash Art.
Wednesday, February 7th
Richmond Burton – Painter
Richmond Burton is very much invested in
the tradition of modernist painting,
citing influences on his work as diverse
as Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), and Frank
Stella. With a background and training in
architecture, many of Burton's
paintings stress visual order. Hard-edged
geometrical forms dominated his early
canvases, but later a more organic
patterning, such as that seen in "Eyes in
the Heat", emerged. Devoted to his craft
with what has been called a "monastic"
fervor, the freedom and control afforded
by painting are of
great importance to Burton, for as he
says, "painting is the only artistic
activity without compromise." His
paintings and drawings hang in the
permanent collections of the Museum of
Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of
Art in New York, the Art Institute of
Chicago, and the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston. His work has been featured on
numerous occasions in such prestigious
publications as the New York Times, the
New Yorker, ArtForum, and Art in America.
Thursday March 1st
John Tremblay – Painter
John Tremblay is interested in bringing
the history of modern abstraction into
dialogue with more recent developments in
contemporary culture. His paintings, while
firmly inscribed in the Pop/Op tradition,
also often allude to graphic design, as
well as to urban planning, technological
warfare, film and
other aspects of consumer culture. His
work was included in Minimalism and After,
an exhibition of the Daimler/Chrysler
Collection, as well as Curious Crystals of
Unusual Purity, at PS1, New York.
Tremblay’s works are in the collections of
the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain,
France; the Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; and the Cabinet
des Estampes, Geneva. Tremblay is
represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New
York; Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam; and
Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland.
Wednesday, March 7th – SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, March 14th – ADVISING DAY
Wednesday, March 21st
Amy Kao – Sculptor, Installation Artist
With a background in philosophy and visual
art, Amy Kao makes sculptural
installations that explore elements in
contemporary landscape as markers of
historical and cultural memory. Ms. Kao’s
work has been exhibited in various public
institutions, including the Busan Biennale
(South Korea), the Brooklyn
Museum of Art, PS 1 Contemporary Art
Center, the Asian American Art Centre and
APEX ART in New York. Reviews of Amy Kao’s
work have appeared in publications such as
the New York Times, the Village Voice and
Artnet. Ms. Kao recently completed
residency fellowships at the MacDowell
Colony in
Peterborough, NH, Art Omi International
Artists Residency in Ghent, NY, and the
Emerge Program at the Aljira Contemporary
Art Center in Newark, NJ, in addition to
serving as a visiting artist at Sarah
Lawrence College. Ms. Kao will publish a
suite of prints upcoming as a recipient of
the Special Editions Fellowship at the
Lower East Side Printshop in New York.
Wednesday, March 28th
Polly Apfelbaum – Painter, Installation
Artist
Polly Apfelbaum has lived and worked in
NYC since 1978. Her first one-person show
was in 1986. Polly Apfelbaum creates what
she calls "fallen Paintings", hybrid works
that exist in a contentious, ambivalent
space between painting, sculpture,
installation and drawing. "I am interested
not so much in
attempting to invent new categories but in
operating promiscuously and
improperly-poaching within fields seemly
already defined". Apfelbaum is a graduate
of Tyler School of Art. She recently had a
traveling mid-career survey organized by
the ICA, Philadelphia. She has
participated in the Lyon,
Sydney, Lodz and Valencia Biennales. Her
work is in many permanent Museum
collections including, MOMA, the Whitney
Museum, LACMA, and the Dallas Museum of
Art. She has received a Guggenheim
fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Grant, and an
Anonymous was a Women grant. Her work has
been featured and reviewed in many
prestigious publications including, Art in
America, Art on Paper, Artforum, and
Modern Painters. She is represented by
Angles gallery, Santa Monica; Frith Street
Gallery, London; and Galerie Nacht St.
Stephen, Vienna.
Wednesday, April 4th
Magda Campos-Pons – Sculptor, Installation
and Multi-media Artist
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, an artist of
Cuban descent has worked for the past 20
years as a painter, sculptor, video and
installation artist. The work of Campos-Pons
is an investigation of history and memory,
and their roles in the
formation of identity. Her work emphasizes
the role of women's discourse, of women's
language, and how cultures are preserved
and maintained by women in societies where
the public sphere is entirely given to
men. Campos-Pons is a Professor at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(Tufts). Her works have been exhibited in
the United States, Canada, Japan, Norway,
France, Italy, and Cuba. She was
represented in the Johannesburg Biennial
and has had a solo exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Wednesday, April 11th
Alex Baker – Curator, Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts
Alex Baker is Curator of Contemporary Art
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, Philadelphia, where he has organized
projects with artists including Robert
Ryman, Phil Frost, Marcel Dzama, Monique
van Genderen, and Adam Cvijanovic, among
others. He recently curated Ellen Harvey:
Mirror, a major site-specific installation
by the artist that explored the Victorian
Gothic architecture and teaching practices
of the Pennsylvania Academy. A former
associate curator at the Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Baker
curated Indelible Market: Barry McGee,
Stephen Powers, and Todd James, and East
Meets West: “Folk” and Fantasy from the
Coasts, among other exhibitions. He has a
Ph.D. in Visual Anthropology from Temple
University.
Wednesday, April 18th
Franklin Sirmans – Curator, The Menil
Collection
Franklin Sirmans is Curator of Modern and
Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection,
and Curatorial Advisor at P.S.1. MOMA.
Sirmans was a former U.S. Editor of Flash
Art, and Editor-in-Chief of Art
AsiaPacific magazines. Sirmans has written
for several journals and newspapers on art
and culture, including The New York Times,
Newsweek International, Art in America,
ArtNews, Grand Street and Essence
Magazine. He was cocurator of Basquiat
(2005-2006) at the Brooklyn Museum, Los
Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the
Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston; Make It Now: New
Sculpture in New York at Sculpture Center;
and One Planet Under A Groove:
Contemporary Art and Hip Hop (2001-2003)
at the Bronx Museum of Art, Spelman
College Art Gallery, Atlanta, the Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, and Villa Stuck,
Munich, Germany.
Wednesday, April 25th
Fides Becker – Painter
Fides Becker, born in 1962 in Germany, is
living as a painter in Frankfurt. Becker
studied at the art schools Städelschule in
Frankfurt, Hochschule der Künste in
Berlin, and Academie voor beeldende
kunsten in Rotterdam in the 80s. Becker
has received several goverment
scholarschips, grants and
residencies in Germany, Holland and the
United States. Ms. Becker exhibits
regularly in European and in New York.
