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MFA in Visual Arts Visiting Artists
During the residencies, visiting artists, art critics, curators, and art historians from throughout the art world join the community and become active participants in the dialogues about art and art-making. Complementing the expertise of AIB faculty, the visitors give lectures and presentations of their work and ideas during a public lecture series sponsored by the program during each residency; they also participate in critiques of student work.June 2012 Art Talks
Monday, June 25 - Thursday, June 28
Artist lectures sponsored by The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and Massachusetts Cultural Council.
All Events
7:00pm – 9:00pm
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
Joan Jonas
Monday, June 25
Looking Forward, Looking Back
While my current work is a weaving together of my early ideas there has been a shift in focus. I continue to work with perception of images altered through the mediums of the mirror, deep landscape space, closed circuit video, and text. As these views and devices overlap, the texture has become more complex. Even though I have increasingly concentrated on installation, drawing, and sound I have spoken about performance because it is where I begin. It is the structure of the work and the content.
Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art. She began working with mirrors and distance in landscape space in 1968. Experimenting with the combination of these various mediums from 1972, she incorporated cameras and monitors as a means of transforming space and time on stage, continually probing how the reception of an image changes due to its set-up. Since 2000, Jonas has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Lynne Tillman
Tuesday, June 26
My writing often responds to visual art. Learning from looking, paying attention to other forms, has helped me find different approaches in writing. I choose to write on art as a fiction writer. Writing is not just a conduit, it is an art, and, after all, words are images, too.
Lynne Tillman is a writer and critic. Her most recent novel is American Genius, A Comedy, and her most recent book is Someday This Will Be Funny, a collection of short stories. Tillman’s previous collection, This Is Not It, was comprised of 23 stories, which responded to the artwork of 22 contemporary artists. Currently, she writes a column for Frieze magazine and teaches at SVA in their MFA Art Criticism department.
Helen Mirra
Wednesday, June 27
So-called Pedestrian
Helen Mirra has recently abandoned certain familiar conventions of the making and circulation of art with which she had become increasingly uncomfortable, while taking up a new protocol with which to continue as an artist. After a number of years making discrete works in various materials, especially in sculpture and with language, and considering various subjects—labor and travel, pragmatist philosophy and geology—the literal field has displaced the studio. Mirra’s present rhythm of working takes the form of a kind of paced printmaking, made through walking. The activities are interdependent; the walking structures the printing, and the printing impels the walking. This rhythm is nestled into a cycle of exhibitions that perpetuates the project. The most recent walkings were made in the Arizona Sonoran desert, and the next are scheduled in northwest France and Brazil, under the auspices of the Rennes Biennale and Sao Paulo Bienal, respectively.
Helen Mirra’s most recent solo institutional exhibitions were at Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
Peter Rostovsky
Thursday, June 28
His work has been shown widely both in the United States and abroad and has been exhibited at such venues as The Walker Art Center, PS1/MOMA, Artpace, The Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, the ICA in Philadelphia, the Blanton Museum of Art, SMAK Museum in Ghent and a host of private galleries including Sara Meltzer, Elizabeth Dee, The Project, Danese, Salon94, and Gio Marconi. He currently teaches painting at New York University.
Previous visitors have included:
- Liz Deschenes
- Tony Cokes
- J. Morgan Puett
- Jean Lowe
- Sue Coe
- Allan McCollum
- Dorit Margreiter
- Fia Backström
- Kamrooz Aram
- Cory Arcangel
- Bill Arning
- Dike Blair
- Nayland Blake
- Holly Block
- Barbara Bloom
- Jurgen Böck
- Sarah Charlesworth
- Vincent Desiderio
- Laura Donaldson
- Thomas Eggerer
- Andreas Fogarasi
- Maureen Gallace
- Sheila Gallagher
- Renée Gree
- Gamaliel R. Herrera
- Dana Hoey
- Jacqueline Humphries
- Wendy Jacob
- Byron Kim
- Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky
- Annette Lemieux
- Steve Locke
- Barbara London
- Annu Matthew
- Tony Matelli
- Rita McBride
- Sarah McCoubrey
- Marilyn Minter
- Rebecca Morris
- Michael Newman
- Jennifer Pastor
- Tom Patti
- Alexis Rockman
- Barry Schwabsky
- Carol Squiers
- Shelburne Thurber
- Wendy White
Images at left from top:
Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Joan Jonas, Reading Dante, Sydney Biennale, installation/performance, 2008
Joan Jonas, from The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, video installation, 2004–05
Lynne Tillman, Photography by Nan Goldin, 1987
Helen Mirra, Metamorphosed, cotton (shirts), serpentinite rock withhematite, casein-painted magnesite and chlorite, 10 x 23 x 30 cm, 2007
Helen Mirra, Metamorphosed
Peter Rostovsky, Epiphany Model: The Photographer, 2006, mixed media, painting
Liz Deschenes, Installation View of Green Screens, #1, #3, and #4, Galerie Nelson, Paris, France, 2002
J. Morgan Puett, self-employed 1, from the beeswaxed archives of JMP 1984-2001
Sue Coe, War Street, 2000, etching on wove paper, with hand coloring
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