Category: Past Lecture Series (Page 17 of 18)

Patt Blue: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Patt Blue has been a photographer for some thirty odd years concentrating on social issues. She began writing in 1998 for her sociological and visual document about spousal abuse and mental illness: Living On A Dream: A Marriage Tale that was published by The University Press of Mississippi. Major works include: HOW FAR IS HEAVEN, a twenty year chronicling of an impoverished family with twelve children living in the New York Catskills; OTHER PEOPLE, a black and white document, including color family snapshots of the disabled residents of a New York City Hospital.

Blue’s photography has been awarded The National Endowment for the Arts, three New York Foundation for the Arts; Howard Chapnick Foundation Grant for Humanistic Photography; LEICA Medal of Excellence for Humanistic Photography; Two Honorable Mention Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for Outstanding Coverage of the Disadvantaged. In 2005, The Kentucky Foundation for Women awarded an Activism Grant to work with young mothers in Western Kentucky. A KY Council for the Arts full Fellowship was granted in 2007. She has a BA from State University of New York, Stony Brook and an MFA from School of the Art Institute Chicago. Currently Patt is a visiting faculty at Evergreen.

Katy Stone: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Katy Stone paints on a variety of materials and layers the elements into sculptural assemblages and installations that blur the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture, engaging viewers with their complex fluidity. “I create objects with visual magnetism and distinct material presence that reflect the generative power of nature…Their exuberance and beauty shadow a longing: the desire for things to last, a wish against decay…The layers of tension between transience and permanence, nature and artifice, substance and ethereality, growth and decay are pivotal in the work.”

Stone has exhibited at nationally and internationally at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vienna, and at museums including The McNay, and the Boise Art Museum and alternative spaces including Suyama Space in Seattle. Her work has been featured in group exhibitions across the US including “Art+Space” at Project4 in Washington, DC, “Other Worlds,” at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida; “Earthly Delights,” at Mass Art in Boston; and internationally at The Chengdou International Biennale in Chengdou, South Korea. She has been reviewed in many publications including Artweek, New Art Examiner, Sculpture Magazine and Art in America. Her commissioned public artworks include projects at Conoco Phillips in Houston, King County Correctional Facility in Seattle, Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, The Ascent in Cincinnati, designed by Daniel Libeskind, and at Twin Parks, in Taichung, Taiwan, among others. In 2011, she will complete her first commission for the GSA’s Art in Architecture Program, at a Federal Courthouse in Jackson, MS, designed by H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture. Originally from Iowa, Stone received her MFA in Painting from the University of Washington in 1994.

Margie Livingston: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Most painters are, abstractly speaking, sculptors of paint, building images through the careful application of layered pigments. But Livingston pushes this idea to an extreme in her construction of three-dimensional forms. The result is a body of work that might prod paint off the palette, but nevertheless keeps it as a medium very much in the limelight.-Suzanne Beal
“Letting accident and discovery meet invention and experimentation, my goal is to make works that surprise me and pull me into new territory as I investigate the properties of paint pushed into three dimensions.”

Margie received an MFA in Painting from the University of Washington. Recent solo exhibitions include Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle; LACE, Los Angeles; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; and The Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA. She has won multiple awards including the Arts Innovator Award and the Neddy Artist Fellowship for Painting in 2010 and Betty Bowen in 2006. She is a member of SOIL Artist Cooperative and is represented by Greg Kucera Gallery. Her work is in the collections of the Seattle Art Museum, The Henry Art Gallery and the Tacoma Art Museum.

Kelly Kaczynski: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Kelly Kaczynski is a sculptor and installation artist. Her work, while
existing in a temporal-spatial platform, is deeply materials based.
She received an MFA from Bard College (‘03), NY and BA from The
Evergreen State College (‘95), WA. She has exhibited with Hyde Park
Art Center, IL (‘08), University at Buffalo Art Gallery, NY (‘06),
Rowland Contemporary, IL (‘06), Triple Candie, NY (‘05), Gallery 400,
University of Illinois at Chicago, IL (‘05), Islip Art Museum, NY
(‘03), Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY (‘03), DeCordova
Museum, MA (‘01), Boston Center for the Arts, MA (‘00). Public
installations include projects with the Main Line Art Center,
Haverford, PA (‘04), the Interfaith Center of NY, NY ‘(03), Institute
for Contemporary Art, Boston and the Boston National Historic Parks
(‘02), Boston Public Library (‘00). Kaczynski has taught at the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (‘02-‘04), the University of
Pennsylvania, PA (‘04), University of Illinois at Chicago, IL (‘04 –
’05) and University of Chicago, IL (‘06). She is currently an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at
Northwestern University, IL.
(Bio from http://kellykaczynski.com)

Pablo Schugurensky: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Pablo Schugurensky brings over 20 years public and private art management
experience to his leadership of META ARTE, the art consultancy he
founded in 2005. Prior to META ARTE, Pablo served as Director of Art
Collections for Vulcan, Inc., where he represented the company’s
principals in the field and managed their extensive private art
collections and their public art efforts. His corporate experience
also includes serving as Director, Microsoft Art Collection for
Microsoft Corporation, and later consulting to First & Goal Inc. in
the formation of the public art program for Qwest Field.

For five years Pablo led the Art in Public Places program for the
Washington State Arts Commission where he administered a statewide art
acquisition initiative and worked to shape public policy in support of
the arts. Early in his career as a program officer for the New York
State Council on the Arts, he led grant administration processes to
arts organizations across the state.

Pablo serves as a member of the collections committee of the Henry
Art Gallery. He has previously served as member of the Seattle Art
Museum’s collections committee and Olympic Sculpture Park advisory
committee, and as a board member of Artist Trust, the Henry Art
Gallery, the Foundation for Art Resources, and Northwest Film Forum.
He is a frequent panelist for international artist selection and
awards programs, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese.

(Bio from http://www.metaarte.net/people.html)

Jennifer Combe: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Jennifer Combe is an Evergreen alum, artist and teacher. She graduated from Evergreen with both a Master in Teaching with a focus on art education in 1997, and in 1995, a Bachelor of Arts focused on anti-bias education, cultural studies, and art. In 2009 she earned a Master in Fine Art from The Vermont College of Fine Arts.

“Over the past fourteen years, I’ve engaged in an art practice investigating the cultural contexts of how meaning is derived from mark making both on the canvas and in the classroom. When I began with that first class of bright-eyed five and six year olds I compartmentalized these two acts. This was partially a knee-jerk defense to protect my studio practice from the monumental heap of work that teaching in a public school has become in this time and place. But now that the first decade of mark making and the teaching of mark making have passed, I take comfort, satisfaction, and find a deep joy in these inseparable acts.”

Her visual work has been exhibited in a range of venues, including galleries, homes, state buildings, restaurants, book stores, LGBTQ festivals, and colleges in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Montpelier, VT, Salt Lake City, and Missoula, MT.

Ellen Lesperance: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Female heroism is undersung, but Ellen Lesperance is determined to sing it—not only so it’s not forgotten, but with the hope that it might be catching. Go to her web site, and you immediately hear the chants of the Women’s Peace Camp at the nuclear testing site Greenham Common.

Look at her paintings, outside the elevators at Seattle Art Museum, and you see they’re dot patterns in a grid on brownish paper: patterns for sweaters that, when worn—and however soft—might transform the individual wearer. Lesperance, originally from a hippieish family in Seattle’s U District and now living in the latter-day utopic city of Portland, is both wedded to and critical of collective idealism. She knows how it can hollow out over time, and how dogma or compromise can take over. But she plainly still believes in the sheer power of individual action. How to make it happen? That’s the spur of her work.

The tone of inspiration has become pretty rare in art. It’s fairly rare in the culture at large. Radical acts may remain, but the rousing spirit of radicalism is hard to find. Lesperance’s art actually includes everything from the archival photos she starts with to the titles she writes to the pattern paintings that hang on the wall to thesweaters she wants to be worn. One of her own inspirations was visiting the Asylum for Radical Feminism in Santa Fe, which she found harrowing: The feminists were very few in number, and essentially impoverished. But they had stories to tell; that’s where she learned of Greenham Common.-Jen Graves, The Stranger

“I like the idea that, for example, through the recreation of a Greenham sweater, a new ‘wearer’ might be beckoned. I also have a particular interest in assigning valor to young women from the Pacific Northwest like Rachel Corrie and Beth Horehound O’Brien, women who have sacrificed their lives fighting the good fight.”

Brian Murphy: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Seattle artist Brian Murphy uses watercolor to create introspective self-portraits. Using fleshy, bold colors, Murphy creates invisible and reductive areas, which allude to the mass and solidity of the human form. Murphy’s work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions and in 2001, Murphy received the Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Memorial award.

Vic Haven: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Victoria Haven lives and works in Seattle. She received her BFA from the University of Washington and her MFA from Goldsmiths College/University of London. She was the 2004 recipient of ‘The Stranger’ Genius Award as well as the Betty Bowen Memorial Award from the Seattle Art Museum. She also received a Pollock-Krasner Award in 1996 and in 2000. Her work has been exhibited at the Frye Art Museum and Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland; the Austen Museum of Art, Texas; the Drawing Center, New York; and RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, among many others.

“I always think that abstraction is slipping away, that people just aren’t looking…Abstraction, to me, is that fuzzy place, that place between things, where a lot of conflict happens, where a lot of connection happens. Just looking at that building over there and going, okay, this line is in front of that one, but what if it weren’t? Those are really basic observations, but I would like to believe that they could help you open yourself up to ways of thinking that are not so black and white.”-The Stranger

Thom Andersen: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:30-1:00, Recital Hall

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Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life. In the 1960s, he made short films, including Melting (1965), Olivia’s Place (1966), and — ——- (1967, with Malcolm Brodwick). In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, an hour-long documentation of Muybridge’s photographic work. In 1995, with Noël Burch, he completed Red Hollywood, a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist. Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book, Les Communistes de Hollywood: Autre chose que des martyrs, published in 1994. In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself, a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies. It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival, and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll. He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987.Andersen is also one of the preeminent film educators in the United States, teaching at Cal Arts in Los Angeles where he has lived for most of his life. However his own films are largely unknown except for his 2003 award-winning portrait of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Plays Itself, voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics’ Poll.

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