Visiting Artist and Critic Series, Fall 2009
With the exception of the Semmes lecture, which is scheduled for a Wednesday, all presentations will be held on Thursdays at 7 pm in the In-Flux Space, Regis Center for Art, 405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis. Locations for ceramic events are cited.
Fall 2009
September 24: Chris Atkins
Chris Atkins is Coordinator of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, a unique curatorial department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Since 1975, and with close to 200 hundred exhibitions, the MAEP has been devoted to Minnesota artists and supporting their work.
Before starting at the MAEP last March, Chris was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester College where he taught a visual cultures course based on a thematic approach to fine art, national monuments, literature, and cinema. He has also taught Art History and a seminar on the work of Francis Bacon at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
He studied Art History at the College of Wooster, Museum Studies at Harvard University, and received MA and MRes degrees in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London. His Masters was focused on the work of American photographer Chris Verene and French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 1 & 2 books.
Before starting at the MAEP last March, Chris was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester College where he taught a visual cultures course based on a thematic approach to fine art, national monuments, literature, and cinema. He has also taught Art History and a seminar on the work of Francis Bacon at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
He studied Art History at the College of Wooster, Museum Studies at Harvard University, and received MA and MRes degrees in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College, University of London. His Masters was focused on the work of American photographer Chris Verene and French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 1 & 2 books.
The following ceramic events are co-sponsored by the Walker Art Center, Northern Clay Center and the University of Minnesota:
October 7: Wednesday, 1:30 pm-2: 30 pm, 134 East Building of Regis, Kathy Butterly lecture
Kathy Butterly's colorful, cartoony, and richly ornamented vessels might be seen as 3-D "cousins" to the drawings of Robert Crumb on view in an adjacent gallery. The artist packs tremendous sculptural and textural complexity, as well as interpretive potential, into these tiny forms. She treats her whimsical objects with irreverence and wit, transforming them into an army of small vessels bursting with anthropomorphic personalities. She lives and works in New York, New York.
October 7: Beverly Semmes, Wed. 7pm Influx Space
Beverly Semmes is an internationally recognized artist who has been showing her work since 1990. By the mid-1990s, she was exhibiting work across the United States and in Europe. Semmes attended Yale University School of Art where she was awarded an MFA in Sculpture (1987).
Semmes's work is in the permanent collections of many important museums, such as the Albright Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, N.Y.), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), the Whitney Museum of American Art in (New York, N.Y.) and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, (Los Angeles, Calif.). She will be teaching at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., as a visiting professor in the spring of 2009.
October 8: Ceramic Panel, Thursday, 7 pm, Cinema, Walker Art Center
Panel Discussion: Ann Agee, Kathy Butterly, and Beverly Semmes
There’s Just Something About Clay: Three Dirt on Delight artists discuss the process of working with clay in conversation with Walker coordinating exhibition curator Andria Hickey. The exhibition Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form from
July 11, 2009 until November 29tth, 2009.
Free tickets available at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm
October 9: Friday, 10am- 12 pm, 1:00 pm-3 pm. Free
Artist Talk and Demonstration: Ann Agee
Northern Clay Center Studios, 2424 Franklin Avenue East, Minneapolis
Originally a painter, Ann Agee became interested in working with clay after taking classes at Greenwich House Pottery in New York in 1985. She became smitten with the process and history. Since then, she continues to, in her own words, “be endlessly interested.” Join Agee at Northern Clay Center for a presentation about her working process in the morning, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon and a talk about her artwork in the afternoon 1:00 - 3:00pm.
This program is being co-sponsored by The Walker Art Center, The University of Minnesota, and Northern Clay Center.
Join the artist for a discussion and demonstration of her working process.
October 15: Minna Rainio & Mark Roberts
Minna Rainio is a photographer and media artist based in northern Finland. She studied photography in the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in England (BA) and audiovisual media culture in the University of Lapland (MA). At the moment she is working on her PhD in the Elomedia research school (University of Art & Design in Helsinki). In her art Rainio combines the use of photography or video with fact and fiction to deal with the social and political issues relating to people’s personal histories, stories and memories.
Mark Roberts is an English media artist based in northern Finland. He studied multimedia and photography first in London and then at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design where he graduated with his Bachelors degree in 1999. In 2008, he will complete an MA in Film Scriptwriting at the University of Salford. Roberts works mainly with video installations, photography and live sound installations. He is currently working on a series of video works, which explore the relationships and tensions that exist between landscapes and societies. His new work focuses on the hidden histories or social conflicts that exist within apparently ‘innocent’ or ‘natural’ landscapes.
Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts combine media art, conceptual art and documentary to deal with social and political issues, and to investigate the impact of these on people's individual experiences and histories.
October 29: Joseph Grigley
Joseph Grigely is an artist and a critical theorist with a specialty in bibliography and textual criticism. His articles include “White” in Cabinet (Fall 2007), “Blindness and Deafness as Metaphors: An Anthological Essay” in the Journal of Visual Culture (Summer 2006), “The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist” in Revolver (2004), and a book-length-study, Textualterity: Art, Theory, and Textual Criticism, published by the University of Michigan Press (1995). Grigely holds a DPhil from Oxford University. Exhibitions include the following: Whitney Museum of American Art; Kunstmuseum, Bern; De Appel, Amsterdam; Portikus, Frankfurt; Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London; Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam; Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Whitney, Venice, Berlin, Sydney, and Istanbul Biennials.
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