Monday, January 5, 2009
Walid Raad works with video, photography, and literary essays to investigate the contemporary history of war in his native Lebanon. Highly regarded for his project The Atlas Group, Raad grapples with the representation of traumatic events of collective historical dimensions and the ways film, video, and photography function as documents of physical and psychological violence. Represented by Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, his work has been exhibited at Documenta 11 (Kassel), The Venice Biennale (Venice), The Whitney Biennial (New York), The Ayloul Festival (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other festivals in Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He lives and works in New York, where he is currently an associate professor at the Cooper Union School of Art.
This event follows a lecture by Raad at the Modern Art Museum of Ft Worth on Feb 10. On Feb 11, Raad will join Noah Simblist, Assistant Professor of Art and Sarah Rogers, the Elenor Tufts Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Art History in a conversation about his work.
For more information about Walid Raad’s Atlas Group project go to
http://www.theatlasgroup.org/aga.html
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Sofia Ponte’s work merges photography, sculpture, video, performance and sound. Her installations establish inter-media relations that critically investigate art boundaries and artists participation in contemporary society. Sofia creates and participates in projects that examine current strategies that translate our social experience into knowledge and propose new ones. This might happen at a museum, school, library or within a group of enthusiasts in the public sphere.
Ponte is from Libson, Portugal. She received her BFA from the University of Oporto in Portugal and her Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT in 2008. Sofia has exhibited internationally, including the Distrito Quinto Gallery, Barcelona, Spain; National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal; Grand-Hall de La Villete, Paris, France; and Kasteliotissa Space, Nicosia, Cyprus.
This lecture is sponsored by the Student Art Association
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Lee Stoetzel attended SMU as an undergrad (1990) and studied at the Division of Art Meadows for his MFA (1993). In the last ten years, he has shifted his work from painting mainly to sculpture. He will discuss his working methods and ideas about reusing recognizable imagery in the wooden sculptures. He will discuss the recent 1:1 wooden sculptures of a “VW Bus,” “Jeep,” “Chopper,” “Computer,” and other new sculptures and installations rendered in similarly degraded material. He has exhibited at the Carnegie Museum, The Walker Art Center, Margaret Thatcher Projects, Clementine Gallery and Mixed Greens. He lives and works in New York.
for more information go to, http://www.leestoetzel.com/Works.html
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Over the last several years, Yael Bartana has become known for her complex visualizations in the forms of photography, film, video, and sound works and installations. Whereas largely known in Europe, her work has not been as present in the U.S. until her recent exhibition at PS1 in New York. Her work creates a revealing ambivalence between playfulness and serious topics, time looped and halted, material from documentation and re-enactments.
Bartana lives and works in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. She has had numerous solo exhibitions including: Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2008); Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2008); The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2007); Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2006); Museum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (2005); Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel (2004); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (2004).
She has also been included in many group exhibitions including: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, United Kingdom (2008); Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain (2008); Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (2007); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2007); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2007); 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brasil (2007); Tàpies Foundation, Barcelona, Spain (2006); and the 9th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey (2005).
This lecture is presented with the generous support of the art history department and the human rights program.
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Ranjani Shettar was born in 1977 in Bangalore, India. In addition to her upcoming exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth and the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, her has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, the Wexner Art Center and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. She is represented by Talwar Gallery, New York. Shettar creates sculptural installations that refer obliquely to the effects of the burgeoning urbanscape in which she lives. By using a wide range of materials from the organic (such as beeswax, cotton, terra cotta, and lacquered wood) to the industrial (PVC pipes, plastic sheeting), Shettar evokes the present collision of high-tech Bangalore with its rural surroundings.
This lecture is in conjunction with Shettar’s Focus exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, on view till Feb 8, 2009
http://www.themodern.org/onview.html
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Monday, January 5, 2009
Belief and Volition
“I have an embarrassing admission to make. I still believe that art can change
the world. I know a work of art can’t feed the hungry or cure AIDS, but a
video, a painting, a poem, all works of art, are endowed with a capacity to
alter a viewer’s perspective on the world. Perhaps, that capacity is weak, and
profound experiences provoked by art may be rare, but my own experiences affirm
that shattering encounters with art can and do occur. My belief in art derives
its vitality from this potential.
In this lecture, I will talk about the conflicting impulses and philosophical
contradictions that inform my work in order to examine structures of belief. I
will specifically address the role of belief regarding volition-the faculty of
power to exert one’s will.”
Gregg Bordowitz is a writer as well as a film and video maker. His films have been widely shown in festivals, museums, movie theaters and broadcast internationally. His writings have been published in anthologies and numerous publications and journals including: The Village Voice, Frieze, Artforum, American Imago, Art Journal, Documents, and October. In Spring 2002, Bordowitz had a solo museum show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His book —titled The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings 1986-2003 — was published by MIT Press in the fall of 2004. Bordowitz is a member of the faculty of the Film/Video/New Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he is on the faculty of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Bjarnadóttir, a young Icelandic artist, was featured prominently in a recent exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. She often uses crochet and fabric weaving to fabricate provocative contemporary statements from traditional craft construction most often associated with the domestic life of women.
for more information go to http://www.hildur.net/
This lecture is in conjunction with Hildur Bjarnadóttir: Encircling, an exhibition at the Pollock Gallery September 13 through October 11, 2008.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Eisenman’s exhibitions have taken the shape of installations of paintings, drawings, collages, assemblages, found objects and murals. These pieces are lampoons of autobiographical situations where real life mixes with pop culture, then turns to fantasy. She is represented by Leo Koenig Gallery in New York.
For more information go to http://www.leokoenig.com/artist/view/443
This lecture has been made possible through the generous support
of Martin and Laurie Cox
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Breuer, a German born artist who now lives in Upstate New York is a recent Guggenheim fellowship recipient. He teaches at Bard College and makes “photographic” images without using a camera. Exhibiting widely throughout the United States and Europe
, Breuer is represented by Von Lintel Gallery in New York.
for more information go to http://www.vonlintel.com/links/Breuer-index.html
This lecture is in conjunction with Marco Breuer: Principles of Extraction, an exhibition at the Pollock Gallery October 27 through December 6, 2008.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Hope Ginsburg received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art (1996) and a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007). She is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has exhibited her work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, SculptureCenter, Socrates Sculpture Park, and at Kunst-Werke in Berlin.
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