Thursday, 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

Thursday, Jan 29,  Lecture 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.

Gallery Link

James Duesing, Animator 

Wednesday, February 4 5:30 Artist Screening and Talk

Thursday, Feb 5   5:30 p.m.  History of Animation Lecture  

both events Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor Van pelt Dietrich Library Center
      
POW Penn Library evnets

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.

www.duesing

Friday, February 6 Lecture 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.

Thursday, Feb. 12      
PATTI SMITH      
Visual Artist          
5:30pm, B1 Meyerson          

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.

www.pattismith.net

Friday, Feb 27         Lecture  
5:00 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 Friday, 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).

Thursday, March 17, Lecture 5:00 p.m. B1 Meyerson

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.

Gallery Link

Wednesday, March 18  Lecture 5:30pm, B3 Meyerson         
Barkley Hendricks, Painter    
       

Born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Hendricks's 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 Link

Thursday, April 16, Lecture
5:30pm, 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.

www.alecsoth.com

Friday, April 17
STANLEY LEWIS
Painter
Lecture 4:30 pm, B3 Meyerson

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.

Gallery Link

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.

Sid Sachs

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.

Tuesday, Oct. 28, 5:30 p.m., B3 Meyerson Hall
Karen Yaskinsky

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.

Gallery Link

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.

Wednesday, November 19: 5:00 p.m. B1 Meyerson Hall

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

Tuesday, November 25
Dread Scott, Artist

Artist Lecture: 5:30 p.m.

B-3 Meyerson Hall

Dread Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. He first received national attention in 1989 when his art became the center of controversy over its use of the American flag. The 2006 Whitney Biennial included his art in the Down by Law section and his work was also included in recent exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and the DeBeyerd Center for Contemporary Art in the Netherlands. Dread works in a range of media including installation, photography, screen printing, video and performance. The breadth of media he explores is unified by the themes he addresses and how he handles them. His art illuminates the misery that this society creates for so many and it often encourages the viewer to envision how the world could be.