MFA in Visual Arts Visiting Artists

June 2009 Art Talks

Artist lectures sponsored by The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University MFA in Visual Arts Program.

All Events 7:30–9:30pm
Boston University, Kenmore Classroom Building
565 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 101 [map]
MBTA: Green Line, Kenmore T stop.

Free and open to the public.
For more information call: 617.585.6770

Wendy White | Monday, June 22
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Wendy White will talk about her recent paintings, which include large-scale, multiple-canvas abstractions, paintings within paintings, and painting/sculpture combinations. Among the topics covered will be painting as construction, site-specificity and architectural concerns, gesture narrative, connotations of mark making, and breaking rules.

Wendy White is represented by Leo Koenig in NY and Galeria Moriarty in Madrid. She has had recent shows at Leo Koenig, NY; Fred, Leipzig; Markus Winter, Berlin; Galeria Moriarty, Madrid; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA; John Connelly Presents, NY; Freight + Volume, NY; and Andrew Rafacz, Chicago. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Galeria Moriarty in September 2009, and her work is currently on view in a group exhibition at Andrew Rafacz through July 18th. White received an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and was the recipient of a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation studio grant and a George and Helen Segal Foundation Painting Grant. She lives and works in New York City.

Sarah Charlesworth | Tuesday, June 23
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For over three decades Charlesworth's elegant and distilled photographs have explored the ways in which images both describe and shape the world around us. Her talk will survey selected series with attention to how these works reflect on broader artistic concerns.

Sarah Charlesworth has had nearly fifty solo exhibitions including a traveling museum retrospective organized by SITE Santa Fe. Charlesworth's work is in numerous public collections including, among others, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and the Whitney Museum in NY, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Her work is currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in an exhibition entitled The Pictures Generation through August 2.

Cory Arcangel | Wednesday, June 24
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In this talk, Cory Arcangel will explore his recent work and interests. These include Tiger Woods, link culture, auto-sculpture, and the internet (as a medium).

Cory Arcangel is a Brooklyn based artist who works with video, installation, music composition, sculpture, print media, the web, and mathematics. His installation and sculptural work has exhibited internationally in such venues as the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Jennifer Pastor | Thursday, June 25
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Jennifer Pastor will discuss her research and sculpture and her most recent drawing and photography project Dead Landscape.

Pastor has exhibited her work in the US and internationally including solo exhibitions at Regen Projects, LA, greengrassi, London, Whitney Museum, NY, MCA, Chicago, MOCA, LA, and group exhibitions including: Biennale di Venezia, Venice , "Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," MoMA, NY, Whitney Bienial, Whitney Museum, NY, "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humelback, Denmark, "Universalis," 23rd Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her work is held in several public collections including MoMA, NY, Whitney Museum, NY, MOCA, LA, San Francisco MoMA, SF, the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin, Italy, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humbelback, Denmark. She is based in Los Angeles and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.

Previous visitors have included:

Bill Arning
Jan Avgikos
Dike Blair
Nayland Blake
Holly Block
Barbara Bloom
Jurgen Böck
Laura Donaldson
Thomas Eggerer
Andreas Fogarasi
Maureen Gallace
Gamaliel R. Herrera
Dana Hoey
Jacqueline Humphries
Wendy Jacob
Byron Kim
Steve Locke
Barbara London
Annu Matthew
Tony Matelli
Marilyn Minter
Rebecca Morris
Michael Newman
Tom Patti
Alexis Rockman
Barry Schwabsky
Shelburne Thurber
Oliver Wasow