Visiting Artist Lecture Series
The School of Art+Design Visiting Artist Lecture Series brings to campus noted artists, curators, critics and historians who share their perspectives and expertise on their own work and provide insight into current issues facing the contemporary artist and designer.
WHAT: School of Art+Design Visiting Artist Lecture Series
WHEN: Wednesdays at 6:30PM (See specific dates below)
WHERE: Visual Arts Bldg | RM 1016 | Directions | Park in W-1 lot
WHO: Email Ebony at artdesign.events@purchase.edu for more info!
HOW MUCH: Free & Open to the Public
Fall 2008 | Visiting Artist Schedule | Save the dates!
09/10/08 Melanie Baker, Drawing
09/17/08 Pablo Helguera, Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer
09/23/08 Wendy Maruyama, Artist-In-Residence
09/24/08 Sue Coe, Illustrator, Journalist, Artist
10/08/08 Beth Campbell, Interdisciplinary Artist
10/15/08 Mathew Ronay, Sculptor
10/22/08 Tom Burckhardt, Painter
10/29/08 Mira Schor, Painter
11/19/08 Kathy Butterly, Sculptor 12/10/08 Kirsten Hassenfeld, Sculptor
Visiting Artist Lecture Series Poster designed by School of Art+Design Community Design Class Spring 2008: POSTER LINK: Coming Soon!
Fall 2008 Visiting Artist Lecture Series | Bios
September 10, 2008 | Wednesday
Melanie Baker
Drawing
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Melanie Baker makes charcoal and pastel drawings of overwhelming scale that investigate symbols and the nature of imagery used as propaganda. Baker’s drawings have depicted American government officials and cropped portraits of the president and his cabinet, and most recently she has been focused on historical images from empires such as the Roman eagle, weapons and other paraphernalia.
September 17, 2008 | Wednesday
Pablo Helguera
Interdisciplinary Artist, Writer
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Pablo Helguera works with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance.Considering the relationship between history, cultural production and language, Helguera fictionalizes the real, generating commentary and discussion about our surrounding cultural reality and relationship to time. His work often adopts the format of the lecture, museum display strategies, musical performances and written fiction.
September 23, 2008 | TUESDAY!
Wendy Maruyama
Artist-In-Residence
Visual Arts Building @ 4:30PM, RM 1016
Trained as a traditional woodworker, Wendy Maruyama’s work deviates from the norm in the field of studio furniture. She uses unexpected materials and imagery inspired by visits to Europe and Asia. The Fall 2008 Artist in Residence e will exhibit in the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, January 12th - February 6th, 2008, her closing reception will be held Thursday, January 29th, 5 – 7 PM. Save the date!
September 24, 2008 | Wednesday
Sue Coe
Illustrator, Journalist, Artist
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Sue Coe is a “graphic witness” to realities often overlooked or avoided (gseart.com). In using images in preference to words, she has explored factory farming, meat packing, apartheid, sweat shops, prisons, AIDS, and most recently, war. As an illustrator for such publications as the NewYork Times and Time Magazine, Coe engages her audience in a visual discourse on subjects that may not receive thorough coverage in the news media.
October 8, 2008 | Wednesday
Beth Campbell
Interdisciplinary Artist
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Beth Campbell investigates notions of the everyday made strange and unfamiliar. Often using her daily life as the basis for her installations, videos, sculptures and drawings, Campbell distorts familiar domestic environments and her own mundane activities. Scenarios repeat in multiple and objects are displaced and disintegrated. What existed on the level of the banal becomes twisted, challenging the limits of human perception.
October 15, 2008 | Wednesday
Matthew Ronay
Sculptor
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Matthew Ronay creates cartoonish sculptural tableaux composed of toy-like handmade objects. His objects are crafted from flimsy materials such as MDF, paper, string, cotton, plastic and felt, and are often painted in bright primary colors. By juxtaposing seemingly unconnected objects into a complex narrative sprawl, Ronay entices viewers toward a state of mental play in which many possible meanings seep out of the work.
October 22, 2008 | Wednesday
Tom Burckhardt
Painter
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Burckhardt’s, David Schwarz Project 9 exhibition in the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, presents the work of the 1986 Purchase College BFA alumnus. Burckhardt, who is represented by Tibor De Nagy Gallery and Caren Golden Fine Art, invites viewers to enter a world, referred to by Alexi Worth as “Burckhadtistan”, made up of surprisingly juxtaposed commonplace objects, precariously balanced, sometimes covered with meticulous patterns that comment humorously on consumerism and contemporary culture.
October 29, 2008 | Wednesday
Mira Schor
Painter, Writer
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Mira Schor is a painter and writer. Schor’s visual work balances political concerns with formalist and material passions. Her work has included major periods which have featured gendered narrative and representation of the body. The predominant focus of her work has been representation of language in drawing and paintings. Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation and feminist art history.
November 19, 2008 | Wednesday
Kathy Butterly
Sculptor
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Butterly’s curiously engaging ceramic sculptures are intricate and innovative in their contradictions: beautifully crafted and fragile, but with an emotional effect that has been described by Gregory Volk as “a community of exquisite mutants at once seductive and alarming”. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the American Craft Museum; and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
December 10, 2008 | Wednesday
Kirsten Hassenfeld
Sculptor
Visual Arts Building @ 6:30 PM, RM 1016
Kirsten Hassenfeld was trained in printmaking,papermaking and book making. She uses the translucency of paper to create sculptures that evoke the quality of gemstones, stained glass and ice yet remain fragile and ephemeral. The works, inspired by pawnshops, casinos and Faberge eggs do not represent riches but rather the memory or fantasy of plenty.