Art Lecture Series

The Evergreen State College

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Susan Gevirtz: Wednesday May 8, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Susan Gevirtz lives in San Francisco. Assistant professor for 10 years at Sonoma State University, Calfornia, she now teaches in CCA’s graduate Visual and Critical Studies and Fine Arts programs. Her books of poetry include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street, 2010); BROADCAST (Trafficker, 2010); Thrall (Post-Apollo Press, 2007); Hourglass Transcripts (Burning Deck, 2001); Spelt, a collaboration with Myung Mi Kim (a+bend, 1999); Black Box Cutaway (Kelsey Street, 1999); PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA (Potes and Poets, 1994; reissue Little Red Leaves, 2009); Taken Place (Reality Street 1993); Linen minus (Avenue B 1992); and Domino: point of entry (Leave Books, 1992). Many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. She was an associate editor of HOW(ever) a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women’s poetry and scholarship, on the editorial advisory board of the journal Avec, and the online journal HOW2. She received the New Langton Arts “Bay Area Award in Literature” in the Spring of 2000. She has recently collaborated with interdisciplinary artist Margaret Tedesco and sound artist Andrew Klobucar. Her play Motion Picture Home was performed as part of a poet’s theatre event in the winter of 2002.

Stokley Towles: Wednesday May 1, 2013 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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For more than a decade, solo performer Stokley Towles has been studying us. He examines the mundane aspects of life in Seattle like an anthropologist from another planet–our libraries, our trash system, our police force, the history of a single city block–and delivers his findings in rich, understated monologues full of bizarre, colorful trivia and bittersweet observations about how people navigate the world and each other. His latest study, Stormwater, is about the rivers that run beneath our feet. — Brendan Kiley, The Stranger Weekly

Eirik Steinhoff: Wednesday April 24, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Eirik Steinhoff has taught contemporary and renaissance poetry at Mills College and at the University of Chicago, where he received his PhD in December 2012. He also teaches in the Workshop on Language and Thinking at Bard College and at the Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York State. Between 2000 and 2005 he edited CHICAGO REVIEW; in 2009 his translations from Petrarch’s RIME SPARSE appeared as a limited-edition letterpressed chapbook from Albion Books; and in fall 2013 a series of pamphlets called A FIERY FLYING ROULE that he produced in the vicinity of the Oakland Commune (a.k.a. Occupy Oakland) will be published by Station Hill Press. He lives in Olympia, Washington, where he is composing a book on the sense of chance in early modern England.

Jenny Heishman: Wednesday April 10, 2013 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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With a practice akin to an alchemist, Jenny Heishman creates approachable objects that elicit misunderstanding and require a shift in perspective. Using a variety of run-of-the-mill materials including aluminum foil, ceramic tiles, paper, tape, fabric and Styrofoam, Heishman alters the way we experience the use of these humble items. Encountering her works on paper and in sculpture, one recognizes her misuse of material and her interest in broken patterns, faux surfaces and optical illusions. Jenny Heishman grew up in Florida surrounded by theme parks, water flumes and golf courses. Nature was mimicked — much of her world was a reconstruction of some other place’s history and landscape. She writes: “Because we enjoyed year-round warmth, we built the seasonal changes with plastic autumn leaves, artificial snow, and unspoken agreements. This environment taught me how to use objects to create a fabricated reality.” Her work encourages us to find pleasure in the act of looking and her playful gestures reward us with multiple visual surprises. Heishman received the Betty Bowen Award and a Pollock-Krasner Foundationan grant in 2011. She received her MFA from Ohio State University in 1998.

Amjad Faur: Wednesday March 6, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Amjad Faur received his BFA in Painting from the University of Arkansas in 2003, and his MFA in Photography from the University of Oregon in 2005.  He has been working for over a decade  with large format photography and it continues to be the means by which he conceptualizes, associates and produces his work.  The visual content of Faur’s images is mostly informed by the transitional and elastic spaces found in the ethnic, political and religious labyrinth of the Middle East; the images are contingent on having been shot “in camera” so as to reinforce the visual abstractions contained within them.  He is represented by PDX Contemporary Art, in Portland Oregon.  Amjad joined the Evergreen faculty  in 2012.

Miranda Mellis: Wednesday January 30, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Miranda Mellis is the author of The Spokes (Solid Objects, 2012); None of This Is Real (Sidebrow Press, 2012); Materialisms (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2009); and The Revisionist (Calamari Press, 2007). The Revisionist has been translated into Italian by Leonardo Luccone (Nutrimenti, 2008) as well as Croatian by Zoran Rosko (Quorum, 2009). It was a finalist for The Believer 2007 Book Award. Mellis has received The John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, The Michael Harper Praxis Prize, and an NEH Independent Research Grant. Her writing has appeared in various journals & magazines including Conjunctions, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Cabinet, Fence, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, American Book Review, Context, Modern Painters, Post Road, Harp & Altar, No Colony, BeeHive, and Paul Revere’s Horse. Her writing also appears in several anthologies including Conversations at The War Time Cafe and California Video: Artists and Histories. She teaches at Evergreen State College.

Hanneline Rogeberg: Wednesday January, 23, 2013 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Hanneline Røgeberg is a painter who works with the paradoxes of representation and language. She has shown in solo shows at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Henie-Onstad Kunst Center and most recently at Dortmund Bodega, Oslo, Norway this March, 2011, and in groups shows such as the MIT List Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a four person show the Richmond Museum, VA, in 2009. She has received an NEA grant in 1996, a Guggenheim fellowship in 1999, an Anonymous Was A Woman grant in 2003, and an OCA grant for a catalog publication in 2009. She is an associate professor of art at Rutgers University and has previously taught at University of Washington, Cooper Union, and Yale University. She was a visiting artist at Skowhegan in 2009.

Hanneline Røgeberg lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Oslo, Norway.

Jen Graves: Wednesday January, 16, 2013, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Jen Graves—The Stranger’s visual arts writer—writes about things you mostly, but not strictly, approach with your eyeballs. Her writing has been in Art in America, The Believer, and ArtNews, and the Warhol Foundation has given her some money to get lost in land art. She also digs teaching, especially at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Jen has lived and written about art in the Pacific Northwest for 11 years.

Seattle Catalog: Wednesday November, 28, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Seattle Catalog is both an art project and a for-profit company. As a for-profit company, Sea-Cat takes the form of a tri-yearly sales catalog with carefully selected artwork by different artists. As an art project, it is a collaboration by Gretchen Bennett, Wynne Greenwood and Matthew Offenbacher.

Sea-Cat is a teaching / learning art gallery and catalog sales business. In our experience, the selling of work can feel removed from and even opposite the experience of community and meaningful connection. We are interested in opening up the access to and experience of art purchasing and selling. We’re trying to experience community within a sales environment.

Sea-Cat engages individual practices, involving creators from various communities and backgrounds. Our goals include: building an audience for and selling experimental artwork; creating interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and transitive programming; nurturing individual practices into new and fruitful areas; examining and re-evaluating the idea of “value”.

We want everyone to build upon their individual practices, while also realizing new language and creating new connections. By everyone we mean: artists, performers, ourselves, our advisory board, audiences, you. This cooperative framework is intended to put practices into discursive motion. We hope Sea-Cat will reflect some of the social, geographical and artistic conditions and contradictions of shifting positions, roles, and open-ended outcomes.

Catharina Manchanda: Wednesday November, 7, 2012, 11:30-1:00, Lecture Hall 1

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Catharina Manchanda joined the Seattle Art Museum in 2011 as Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Contemporary Art. A native of Germany, she received her Ph.D. at the City University Graduate Center in New York specializing in German conceptual photography of the 1960s and ‘70s. While in New York she helped organize a retrospective of Gerhard Richter’s paintings at the Museum of Modern Art. At the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis she curated Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture with work from the 1960s to the present, and Models and Prototypes, which investigated the prevalence of architectural and conceptual models as templates for artistic production. Prior to her move to Seattle she worked as Senior Curator at the Wexner Center for Contemporary Art where she organized exhibitions on Robin Rhode and Cyprien Gaillard. For SAM, she is currently curating a series of exhibitions and installations for Elles: SAM, including a focused show on Yayoi Kusama, a presentation of paintings by Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler, conceptual works by Jenny Holzer and Adrian Piper, and accompanying video program. Her published writings address a range of topics from photography and conceptual art, to essays on individual artists such as Gerhard Richter, Thomas Demand, Braco Dimitrijevic, Robin Rhode, Cyprien Gaillard and George Grosz.

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