Visiting Artists
FINE ARTS LECTURES FALL 2009
Thurs, Sept 24, 5:30pm Meyerson B3
Nina Katchadourian, 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, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled "All Forms of Attraction." The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco and serves as a Senior Critic to the PennDesign MFA program this Fall.
Wed, Oct 14, 5:30pm Upper Gallery Meyerson
John Yau, Critic
John Yau is an art critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer. He was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1950, shortly after his parents fled Shanghai. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. His collections of poetry include Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin, 2002), Forbidden Entries (1996), Berlin Diptychon (1995), Edificio Sayonara (1992), and Corpse and Mirror (1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery. His books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996) and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). He has also edited Fetish (1998), a fiction anthology.
Yau's honors include the Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Jerome Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the General Electric Foundation. He lives in New York City.
Mon, Oct 19, 5:30pm B1 Meyerson
An-My Lê, Photographer
An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960 and came to the United States in 1975 as a refugee. She holds a BAS (1981) and MS (1985) from Stanford University and an MFA from Yale University School of Art (1993). Recent solo exhibitions of her work include 29 Palms at Murray Guy, New York; Small Wars at PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; and Vietnam at Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997) and her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and Sackler Gallery, The Smithsonian, Washington DC. Lê is a Senior Critic at Penn.
Weds, Nov 4, 5:00pm Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum
Oron Catts, Tissue Engineering Artist
Born in Finland, Oron Catts is a tissue engineering artist. He is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of SymbioticA, the Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia. He founded the Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A) in 1996 and creates victimless leather and other biologically derived technologies. Catts was also a Research Fellow at the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. This lecture is presented by the Penn Humanities Forum.
Thurs, Nov 19, 5:30pm B3 Meyerson
Olaf Breuning, Artist
Olaf Breuning works in photography, video, sculpture and installation. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the U.S., Europe and Japan, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial. He has had solo exhibitions at the Migros Museum, Zurich in 2007; Chisenhale Gallery, London in 2005; New Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam in 2004; the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City in 2003; the Musée de Strasbourg, France in 2003; the MAGASIN: Centre National d'art Contemporain, Grenoble in 2003; and the Swiss Institute, New York in 2002 and 2001. Breuning's work has been featured in group shows at The Hayward Gallery, London in 2008; the 2007 1st Athens Biennial; the 2007 Canary Islands Biennial; the Mori Art Museum, Japan in 2007; the Ellipse Foundation, Portugal in 2006; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York in 2006; the Prague Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2005; the Jeu de Paume, Paris in 2005; and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston in 2004. Breuning was born in Switzerland and currently lives in New York and Zurich.
Fri, Dec 4, 5:00pm, Tuttleman Auditorium, Institute of Contemporary Art
David Humphrey, Painter
David Humphrey received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1977 and an M.A. in liberal studies from New York University in 1980. He lives and works in New York City and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins and Co. His first show was with the McKee Gallery in 1984, and he has since been exhibiting nationally and internationally. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Carnegie Institute, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two New York Foundation Grants. He wrote a column for Art issues from 1989 until the journal's demise in 2002 and is a periodic contributor to Art in America.
PAST LECTURES SPRING 2009
Fri, Apr 24, 5:00 pm, B3 Meyerson
Terry Winters, Painter
Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1949, Terry Winters attended the High School of Art & Design in New York and continued formal training at the Pratt Institute, receiving a BFA in 1971. His early paintings are influenced by minimalist, monochromatic paintings, like those of Brice Marden. Winters' love of drawing led him to introduce schematic references to astronomical, biological and architectural structures as the subject matter of his paintings. He began exhibiting work in 1977, and by the early 1980s his ideas had developed into loose grids of organic shapes beside lushly painted fields.
His has been included in numerous Whitney Biennials of 1985, 1987 and has held solo shows at the Tate Gallery in London and the Sonnabend Gallery in New York. His work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art as well as with many international museums. Bill Goldston invited Winters to print at the Universal Limited Art Editions studio in 1982. Mr. Winters lives and works in New York and Geneva, Switzerland.
Matthew Marks Gallery
Fri, Apr 17, 4:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
Stanley Lewis, Painter
After receiving a BA from Wesleyan University, Lewis went on to receive a BFA and MFA from Yale
and was a Danforth Fellow. Solo exhibitions have included Dartmouth College, NH; the Bowery Gallery,
NY and the Dorry Gates Gallery, MO. A major retrospective of his work was shown at the American University Museum, Washington D.C. in 2007. Group shows include the Delaware College of Art and Design; the Commission for Arts and Humanities in Washington D.C., and Swarthmore College, PA. His work is in the collections of the Albrecht Gallery, MO and the University of Indiana among others. Lewis' teaching experience includes The American University in Washington D.C.; Smith College MA, and Parsons School of Design, NY. Awards include both the Altman Prize and a Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Award from the National Academy of Design, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Midwest Paint Group
Thur, Apr 16, 5:30 pm, B1 Meyerson
Alec Soth, Photographer - Spiegel Resident
Alec Soth's work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of 'on-the-road photography' developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. He has received fellowships from the McKnight, Bush, and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walker Art Center. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial and a career survey at the Jeu de Paume in 2008. His first monograph, 'Sleeping by the Mississippi', was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA (Steidl, 2006), Fashion Magazine (Magnum, 2007), and Dog Days, Bogotá (Steidl, 2007). He is represented by the Gagosian Gallery in New York and the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis.
http://www.alecsoth.com/
Mon, Apr 13, 5:30 pm, B1 Meyerson
Matthew Ritchie, Painter/Installation
Matthew Ritchie's installations of painting, wall drawings, light boxes, sculpture, and projections are investigations of the idea of information; explored through science, architecture, history and the dynamics of culture, defined equally by their range and their lyrical visual language.
In 2001, Time magazine listed Ritchie as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, for exploring 'the unthinkable or the not-yet-thought.' More omnivorous than omnipotent, encompassing everything from cutting-edge physics, ancient myth, neo-noir short stories and medieval alchemy to climate change, contemporary politics and economic theory, his installations fuse unique narrative forms with our constantly changing factual understanding of our universe. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide including the Whitney Biennial, the Sao Paulo Bienal and the Sydney Biennial. Solo shows include the Dallas Museum of Art; the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Portikus, Frankfurt and The Fabric Workshop and Museum. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and numerous other institutions worldwide.
http://www.matthewritchie.com/
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/matthew-ritchie/
Wed, Mar 18, 5:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
Barkley Hendricks, Painter
Born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Hendricks' unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere between portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast.
Nasher Museum
co-sponsored with Slought Foundation: Art of Limina: Gary Hill
Gary Hill, Media Artist
Recognized internationally as one of the most important artists of his generation, Hill has been working with video and sound since 1973. His intermedia use of text, speech and image explore the physicality of language and our thought processes. Hill creates complex installations which often solicit the viewerís active involvement to the point of "completing" the works themselves. Gary Hill has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the prestigious Leone díOro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant in 1998. His work has been included in six Whitney Biennial exhibitions since 1983 and in Documenta IX where one of his most ambitious works, Tall Ships, was premiered. His video, sound and performance work has been presented at museums and institutions throughout the world and will be the focus of an important survey in 2001 which is being organized by the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, and will travel to the Reina Sofia in Madrid and other venues in Europe and America.
Donald Young Gallery
Fri, Feb 27, 5 pm, B3 Meyerson
José Roca, Curator
José Roca, the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, is a Colombian curator working from Bogotá and Philadelphia. Among his recent curatorial projects are: Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, a traveling exhibition produced by iCI (Independent Curators International) currently on tour (2007-2009); Botánica política, Sala Montcada, Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona (2004); Traces of Fri, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2003); TransHistorias, survey of the work of José Alejandro Restrepo, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá (2001); Define 'Context', APEX Art Curatorial Program, New York (2000); Ruins; Utopia, survey of Cuban artist Carlos Garaicoa, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York and Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (2000-2001).
Thur, Feb 12, 5:30 pm, B1 Meyerson
Patti Smith, Visual Artist
co-sponsored by the ICA
Patti Smith first gained critical attention in the early 1970s as a pioneering poet and performer on New York City's downtown scene. Among her early portrait subjects is Smith's friend and collaborator Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs were the subject of a major 1988 retrospective at ICA in Philadelphia, that included catalog text by Smith.
http://www.pattismith.net/
Fri, Feb 6, 4:30 pm, B1 Meyerson
Gary Sangster, Curator/Educator/Director/Writer
Gary Sangster is director of Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, and has had an international career that spans the fields of art history, curatorial practice, museum management, higher education and business. Sangster began his career teaching at the Newcastle University and the University of New South Wales in Australia then developed a passion for curatorial work. In 1989, he moved to the United States to become curator of New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art. He has also been Dean and director of the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Sangster is especially known for his work as Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, where he led the process of transforming the museum into a hybrid model that provided a new museum facility for onsite programming and education, and off-site collaborative programs that linked scholars and experts with artists to engage a broader audience. Sangster's curatorial projects include solo exhibitions of Judith Barry, Kerry James Marshall, Buzz Spector, and Komar and Melamid.
Wed, Feb 4, 5:30 pm, Artist Screening and Talk
Thur, Feb 5, 5:30 pm, History of Animation Lecture
both events Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor Van pelt Dietrich Library Center
POW Penn Library events
James Duesing, Animator
James Duesing is a computer animator and video artist. His work has been exhibited throughout the world in venues as diverse as: The Sundance Film Festival; PBS; SIGGRAPH; The Berlin Video Festival; MTV; Shanghai Animation Festival; Film Forum; the Seoul Animation Center and some of the finest rec rooms in the USA. His work is held in collections at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Goethe Memorial Museum, Tokyo; the UCLA Film Archive, Los Angeles and The Israel Museum. His work has received much recognition including: Grants from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Film Institute Fellowship, an Emmy Award, the Deutscher Videokunstpreis, and a CINE Golden Eagle. He has been Co-Director of The STUDIO of Creative Inquiry, a center for interdisciplinary collaboration in art and science projects. He received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati. He currently is a professor in electronic and time based art in the School of Art.
http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~duesing/
Thur, Jan 29, 5:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
Karyn Olivier, Visual Artist
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Karyn Olivier received her MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BA in psychology at Dartmouth College. Karyn Olivier's works range from sculpture to large site-specific installations. Space is her principal medium, with which she creates complex intimation of solitude, interaction, secrecy, scale, and access. In 2007 she was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and an Art Matters grant. She received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award in 2003. This year Olivier will mount a public art project and participate in the Gwangju Biennial (Korea). Olivier will present a series of billboards in Houston, TX and a companion publication in 2009.
Dunn and Brown Contemporary
Thur, Jan 22, 5:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
Amy Stein, Photographer
co-sponsored by the Print Center
Amy Stein is a photographer and teacher based in New York City. Her work explores our evolving isolation from community, culture and the environment. She has been exhibited nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nevada Museum of Art, SMoCA and the West Collection.
www.amysteinphoto.com
PAST LECTURES FALL 2008
Wed, Nov 19, 5 pm, B1 Meyerson
Mark Lewis, Media Artist
Film artist Mark Lewis is to be Canada's representative at the Venice Biennale 2009. (Mark Lewis) A film artist and photographer who deconstructs traditional filmmaking techniques is to represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale of Visual Art. Lewis started out as a photographer, but has become recognized and critically acclaimed as a filmmaker. He attended Harrow College of Art in London, England, and the Polytechnic of Central London. He now lives and works in London. His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Muse d'art contemporain de Montral and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
www.marklewisstudio.com
Thur, Oct 30, 5:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
Bill Scott, Painter
Born in Bryn Mawr and raised in Haverford, Scott studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1974 to 1979. Scott's continuity and legacy within the Philadelphia tradition, united with his own unique process and approach to composition and form, have been recognized by colleagues, critics and collectors. His work has recently been accepted to the National Academy Museum's 179th Annual exhibition in 2004, where it won the Adolph and Clara Obrig Prize. Other major public collections that include Scott's work include the Delaware Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Munson Williams Proctor Institute Museum of Art.
Hollis Taggart Galleries
Tues, Oct 28, 5:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
Karen Yaskinsky, Animator
Karen Yasinksy (b. Pittsburgh, PA; lives Baltimore, MD) makes short animated films based on beautifully rendered clay-modeled figures and drawings. To create these works, the artist works alone on each aspect of the story-drawing and modeling, sets and costume design, direction, cinematography, and stop-animation shooting. The musical soundtracks are made in collaboration with composer Winston Rice and others. Her twelve-inch-tall clay figures, with hand-painted faces and hand-stitched clothing, move minimally within small, simple sets. The characters are silent, the expression on their faces static, and their bodies move in small gestures. The result is compelling and realistic, partially due to the fact that the characters' stories are developed as Yasinsky shoots the stop-motion animation. The figures reflect a soulful playfulness reminiscent of Buster Keaton.
Mireille Mosler Ltd.
Mon, Nov 3, 5:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
William Cordova, Visual Artist
Cordova's work has been in numerous group exhibitions in the USA and Europe, including the 49th Venice Biennial (2003), William Cordova has presented solo exhibitions in renowned institutions, such as the P.S.1-Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006), or the MOCA-Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2003). He is represented by Arndt and Partner, Berlin.
Arndt & Partner
Mon, Oct 27, 5:30 pm, B1 Meyerson
Charles Burns, Artist-Spiegel Resident
Charles Burns' drawings first became known in the legendary comics magazine "Raw" in the 1980s. His comic stories "Big Baby" and "Dog Boy" were serialized in alternative weekly papers throughout the United States. His drawings also appeared on the covers and in the pages of Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Believer and many other publications, as well as on the album covers of Iggy Pop and others. His drawings were the subject of a solo exhibition "Charles Burns" at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts Museum in 1999. His work was included in the exhibition "Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque" at the SITE Santa Fe Biennial in 2004 curated by Robert Storr. Burns contributed to the animated feature "Fear(s) of the Dark" which will be released in October by AFC. He has a solo exhibition in New York at Adam Baumgold gallery this fall. Charles Burns lives and works in Philadelphia.
Adam Baumgold Gallery
Thur, Oct 16, 5:30 pm, B3 Meyerson
Tom Nozkowski, Painter
The small size of the drawings and paintings necessitates wrist and hand detailing,not the kinesthetic,haptic automatism of the older generation of the New York School. Drawing, albeit a painterly draftsmanship, therefore is the operative practice in Nozkowski's artwork. The works are like writing: painted with actions of the hand and wrist, articulate, diaristic. Edges, facture, and flourishes are important, like penmanship. Proustian, they are memorial, of memories, at once descriptive, yet open, and poetic.
PaceWildenstein
Tues, Oct. 14, 5:30 pm, Upper Gallery, Meyerson Hall
Mark Shetabi, Painter and Sculptor
Mark Shetabi received his MFA in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He is a recipient of a 2002 Pew Fellowship in the Arts for a body of sculpture and installation. His work has been included in group exhibitions in New York at White Columns, the Heckscher Museum and Jack the Pelican Presents. Shetabi has had solo exhibitions in Philadelphia at Locks Gallery and Project Room, in San Francisco at Ratio3, and in New York at Jeff Bailey Gallery. He lives and works in Philadelphia.
Jeff Bailey Gallery
Mon, Sept 24, 7 pm, ICA Lecture
Kate Gilmore, Performance Artist
Kate Gilmore (b. 1975 Washington, DC; lives New York) received a BFA from Bates College, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2002. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including Artpace, San Antonio, Maisterravalbuena Galeria, Madrid, White Columns, New York, and Real Art Ways, Hartford. Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2008 will be held at The Moore Space, Miami, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, and Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York. This winter her work will be on view at Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin Italy. Selected group exhibitions include Environments and Empires, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham (2008); Reckless Behavior, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2006); and Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA, Long Island City. Gilmore was recently awarded the Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Italy (2007).
ICA Exhibition
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