{"id":1143,"date":"2024-01-04T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=1143"},"modified":"2024-10-31T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:39:04","slug":"1-31-wednesday-week-4-leah-modigliani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/1-31-wednesday-week-4-leah-modigliani\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/31, Week 4: Leah Modigliani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Art Lecture Series: Leah Modigliani\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xKIvMhvN_lA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a\">Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She is an artist and scholar with transdisciplinary engagements informed by fine arts, art history, critical geography, urban studies, and politics. <\/span>Modigliani\u2019s work represents the liberatory potential (right to the city) and neoliberal revanchism (displacement, punitive laws) of urban experience. In artwork she has dwelled upon eviction (\u201c<em>How long can we tolerate this? An incomplete record from 1933-1999<\/em>,\u201d 2016-17); cities destroyed by war (\u201c<em>The City in Her Desolation<\/em>,\u201d 2017) and natural disasters (\u201c<em>Cities of God\u201d<\/em> series 2021-22), and protests against injustices enacted in cities (\u201c<em>Washington D.C., 1939; Basel, 1957; Berkeley, 1969; Chicago, 1969; London, 1969; Windsor, 1982&#8230;,\u201d <\/em>2015-2018<em>). <\/em>While often sculptural, her work increasingly cites the form and history of photography, especially photography\u2019s role in constituting and deconstructing historical narratives online and in physical archives. Modigliani visual artworks are complemented and informed by her academic writing about photography and landscape (<em>Engendering an avant garde: the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism<\/em>, 2018), and public sculpture (<em>Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action <\/em>(in press with Routledge, 2023).<br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a\">Modigliani&#8217;s\u00a0visual work has been exhibited at many galleries and museums including Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum (Philadelphia), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, ME), the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto). Her critical writing can be found in academic journals and contemporary art magazines such as <em>Mapping Meaning the Journal<\/em>, <em>Anarchist Studies, Prefix Photo<\/em>, <em>Art Criticism<\/em> and <em>C Magazine.<\/em>Her book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526126740\/\"><strong>Engendering an avant-garde: the unsettled landscapes of Vancouver photo-conceptualism<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, was published by Manchester University Press&#8217;s\u00a0Rethinking Art&#8217;s Histories series in 2018. Her second book,\u00a0<em>Counter-Revanchist Art in the Global City <\/em>will be published by Routledge in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leahmodigliani.net\/\">https:\/\/www.leahmodigliani.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Leah Modigliani is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. 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