Category: Past Lecture Series (Page 16 of 18)

Susan Noyes Platt: Wednesday, May 23, 2012, 11:30-1:00 pm, Lecture Hall 1

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A native of New York City. Susan Noyes Platt is a freelance art historian and art critic, as well as a political activist, based in Seattle, Washington. She has published articles, essays and reviews on the intersections of art and politics. Her primary concern is to alter the critical discourse to embrace the many different ways in which artists explore this intersection. Over the course of her career she has shifted from a focus on American Art to an exploration of art in the Middle East, particularly in Turkey. She has also published reviews of contemporary art from China, Latin America, and Europe.

Storm Tharp: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Storm Tharp builds his strange and beautiful characters by first drawing contours on the page with water. Before the water has a chance to dry, he applies drops of mineral ink, resulting in unruly and expansive bleeds on the paper. Tharp takes his inspiration from a wide-ranging set of influences including 1970s American cinema and Japanese portrait prints. His characters have names, histories, and narratives, but they suggest multiple interpretations. Is the woman clutching a knife in Pigeon (After Sunshen) defending herself or is she a vengeful murderess? In these enigmatic portraits Tharp investigates the performance of identity and the point where the myth of a person supersedes reality and becomes truth. -Whitney Museum. “My work can be distilled in two distinctive points of interest. One would be the tradition of the hand made object and its inherent ability to reflect nature. ” His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Saatchi Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Reed College, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.

Molly Landreth: Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Molly Landreth is a Seattle based artist who explores concepts of identity and community through intimate large-format film photography and multi-media collaboration. She is most well known for her series, “Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America” which she continues to exhibit and speak about frequently. She has been featured in, and photographed for, publications including The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, The Advocate, OUT, Marie Claire and The New Yorker. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in NYC.

Lisa Radon: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Lisa Radon writes about art and makes art about writing. She makes text-based art, poem, word-sound performance, and collaborative, durational writing projects.

She writes regularly for art ltd. and ArtsWatch, and has contributed to Oregon. Humanities, American Craft, Portland Monthly, Textile, and others. She edits ultra: arts portland (ultrapdx.com). Recent catalogue essays include those for exhibitions at YU, the Lumber Room, and Half/Dozen.

Film screening of Helvetica: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica has been shown at over 200 film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide.

Video of Artist Talk by Dana Schutz: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Dana Schutz, whose vibrant, large-scale paintings are collected by many major museums, gives a lecture at the CFA School of Visual Arts Contemporary Perspectives Lecture series, which brings professional artists, including painters, sculptors, printmakers, graphic designers, and art educators and critics, to campus to share their experiences.

Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on November 3, 2008.

Students Present: Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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The last three weeks of the Artist Lecture Series will feature student talks on studio work and/or research projects. This week, student Marshall Astor from the program Museum or Mausoleum? The Framing of Art, Culture and Neuroplasticity and Mosoleum, and students Valerie Wernet and Willy Smart, who have individual learning contracts with Julia Zay, will be giving talks on their research.

Students Present: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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The last three weeks of the Artist Lecture Series will feature student talks on studio work and/or research projects. This week Student Originated Studies: Visual Art students, Willis Hoke, Bianca DeMars, Andrew Ludwig, and Madeline Waits will be giving artist talks. They have been developing a rigorous studio practice by establishing an inquiry through material

Students Present: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

June 10, 2021 / Steve

The last three weeks of the Artist Lecture Series will feature student talks on their studio work and/or research projects. This week Student Originated Studies: Visual Art students, Graham Jones, Jessica Sage, Eva Boynton and Kyle Rollins will be giving artist talks. They have been developing a rigorous studio practice by establishing an inquiry through materials and research and studying 20th c. art history for two quarters.

Robert Yoder: Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Robert Yoder Works in painting and collage. “The details and elements of his paintings and collages that are “missing” are really right there in front of the viewer, which can either create a disorienting sense of disconnection or a strong connection with his works.”

Born in Danville, VA, Robert Yoder lives and works in Seattle. He received his B.F.A. from the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA and his M.F.A. from the University of Washington. He is represented by frosch&portmann in New York, and the Froelick Gallery in Portland. His work is in the collections of the Frye Art Museum, the Seattle, Portland and Tacoma Art Museums, and The Henry Art Gallery, as well as numerous city and private collections .

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