Art Studio Program Lecture Series
Art Studio Program Lecture Series
2009-2010 Lecture Series TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.
2008-2009
November 20: Sara Velas
Sara Velas is a visual artist and the founder and director of the Velaslavasay Panorama. A member of the International Panorama Council, Ms. Velas has traveled extensively throughout the world to experience the unique immersive state offered by the panoramic art form in both its historic 19th century and contemporary manifestations. Velas lives and works in Los Angeles.
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January 29: Catherine Wagner
Catherine Wagner, a professor at Mills College in Oakland, is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1987) and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1981, 1990/91). Her solo exhibitions have shown throughout the country and her work can be found in numerous collections, including those of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Whitney Museum of American Art among others.
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February 12: Judy Glantzman
Judy Glantzman's paintings, drawings, and sculptures of human figures explore infinite complexities of human psyche and imagination.
Abstract and real at the same time, human forms are at the center of her artistic investigation. Glantzman's paintings have recently neen included in group exxhibitions such as "East Village, USA" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2004), and "Site and Insight" at P.S.1, Long Island City (2003).
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February 19: Arthur Gonzalez
Arthur Gonzalez, a former graduate student at the University of California at Davis, studied under Robert Arneson and Manuel Neri. Gonzalez has been an artist in residence at the University of Georgia and currently works in New York City where he is an active participant in the East Village Art Scene.
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March 5: Natalie Zimmerman
Natalie Zimmerman’s video, audio, and photographic works have been featured at internationally screenings and exhibitions including The Moscow International Film Festival, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, Spain, UC Riverside’s Sweeney Gallery, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Her recently completed film Islands premiered at SF Camerawork this January. Zimmerman lives and works in Los Angeles.
April 2: Anne Walsh
Anne Walsh is a media artist and an Assistant Professor of Electronic Media in the department of Art Practice at UCB. Her works include video, performance, audio, and print projects. Walsh has also curated exhibitions and is a founding editor and contributor of X-Tra Journal of Art and Culture. Her videos, performances, and sound installations have been shown widely on both the national and international stage.
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April 16: Jeanne Quinn
Jeanne Quinn
is a ceramic artist living in Brooklyn, New York and Boulder, Colorado where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History. Quinn has shown widely in the United States, Europe and Taiwan and been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, the Kahla Porcelain Factory (Germany), the International Ceramic Center (Denmark), the Ceramic Center Berlin (Berlin) and the Archie Bray Foundation (Montana).
John Yau is a poet and critic. He is the author of several books, including
The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry, Paradiso Diaspora and
Borrowed Love Poems, as well as contributions to monographs and catalogues
on Joan Mitchell, Jessica Stockholder, Wifredo Lam and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Since 2004, he has been the Arts Editor of the Brooklyn Rail. He has taught
at the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University and the Maryland
Institute College of Art, and is currently an Associate Professor of
Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He
received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 2006-2007.
Yau will discuss his recent publication A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (published by D.A.P). John Roloff is a visual artist who works conceptually with site, process and natural systems. In the mid-1960's, he studied geology at UC Davis, Davis, CA with Professor Eldridge Moores and others during the formative days of plate tectonics studies. Subsequently, he studied art with Bob Arneson and William T. Wiley also at UC Davis in the late 1960’s. Roloff has numerous environmental, site-specific installations in the US, Canada and Europe and has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, UC Berkeley Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Photoscene Cologne and the Venice Architectural and Art Biennales. He is currently Chair of the Sculpture/Ceramics Department the San Francisco Art Institute. April 22 and 23: John Yau
Co-sponsored by the Art, Art History and Creative Writing Programs.
April 22 lecture is scheduled for 7:00 pm in the TCS Building.
April 23 poetry reading is scheduled for 12:00 pm in 126a Voorhees.
more >April 30: John Roloff
more >All lectures are free to the public and will take place at 4:30 pm in the TCS Building