Visiting Lecture Artist Series
2009 - 2010
Renaissance Families: Holy & Otherwise
Art history lecture by Dr. Hetty Joyce
October 14, 2009, 5pm, Library Auditorium
Hetty Joyce, Assistant Professor of Art History (Part-time), joined the faculty of TCNJ in 1998. She received the B.A. in Classics from Reed College, the M.A. in Classical Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Harvard University. Her research interest is Roman decorative arts and their influence from the early modern period to the present. She has published many articles and reviews in academic journals (The Art Bulletin, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes), participated in academic conferences(College Art Association, American Academy in Rome), and contributed essays to scholarly publications (Art History in the Age of Bellori: Scholarship and Cultural Politics in Seventeenth-Century Rome,Cambridge University Press). She is currently working on a study of the discovery and influence of ancient paintings in the contexts of antiquarian and scientific inquiry, collecting, graphic reproduction and publication, patronage, and aesthetic theory.
Distortions: Contemporary Media Art from Mexico
Artist/Curator Panel Discussion
October 28, 2009, 6pm, The College Art Gallery
Curated by Karla Jasso and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, the Distortions exhibit features mixed media work by Gilberto Esparza, Marcela Armas, Gerardo García de la Garza, Iván Abreu, Ale de la Puente, and Iván Puig. This exhibit, curated by Karla Jasso and Ricardo Miranda, compels audiences to consider the ways in which the artworks’ particular places of creation, integration of technologies high and low, and political reflections merge to create a unique artistic vision that portrays Mexico today.
2008 - 2009
An Atlas
Artist/Curator Panel Discussion with Alexis Bhagat, Lize Mogel & Rosten Woo
November 11, 2008, 6pm, Library Auditorium
An Atlas is an exhibition of “radical cartography” and related political filmmaking. Radical cartography, a cultural movement that cuts across boundaries of art, geography, and activism, is a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change. The participating artists, architects, and collectives who created the maps and diagrams for An Atlas play with cartographic convention—geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views—in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage. While mapping in art practice has expanded to into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, as well as its function as activist tool and political agent.
Anxious Ground Panel Discussion
with Stefan Abrams and Justin James Reed
March 4, 2009, 6pm, 134 Forcina
In association with The College Art Gallery exhibition, Anxious Ground: Contemporary Landscape, artists Stefan Abrams and Justin James Reed discuss their own photographic work and the topic of the exhibition.
Artist talk with Wendell Brooks hosted by Dr. Marcia Taylor
February 3, 2009, 5pm, Music Building Concert Hall
Now retired, Brooks taught at TCNJ for more than 36 years. He holds an MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University. His prints are in the permanent collection at the Library of Congress, the National Collection of Fine Arts at the Smithsonian Institution, and the Macedonian Center of Contemporary Art (Greece) and he has exhibited his work internationally. He served on several committees of New Jersey's State Council of the Arts. Brooks’ work is inspired by explorations in self-discovery, as well as cultural diversity. He lives in Trenton, NJ.
2007 - 2008
Shelly Silver
September 19, 6pm Library Auditorium
Shelly Silver is a New York based artist utilizing video, film and photography. Her work spans a wide range of subject matter and genres and explores the personal and societal relations that connect and restrict us; the indirect routes of pleasure and desire; the stories that are told about us and the stories we construct about ourselves.
http://www.shellysilver.com/
Oksana Chepelyk
November 14, 2pm Library Auditorium
From the Ukraine, Oksana Chepelyk will discuss and show her sculptural fashion designs, performance documentation and films. Her provocative artwork probes into the nature of totalitarianism and complexities resulting from the reunion of the former eastern and western Europe. She deals with the interrelation of the real, social and virtual spaces and is especially interested in co-experience, focusing on cultural transformations.
Between Heaven & Earth: Spiritual Transformations and Sacred Spaces
Gallery talk with juror Eleanor Heartney
January 30, 4:30pm, The College Art Gallery
Eleanor Heartney is the author of the books, Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art and Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads. She is a New York-based art writer and cultural critic who has written extensively on contemporary art for such publications as Art in America, ARTnews, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Art Examiner. She also received the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism and is the president of the US section of the International Association of Art Critics.
Artist talk with Robert Boyd
March 18, 2009, 5pm, Library Auditorium
Originally a sculptor, Robert Boyd is an interdisciplinary installation artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work often explores the volatile intersection of politics and religion, examining its precarious influence over popular culture. His 4-channel video installation Xanadu, was shown at Sundance last month. It originally premiered at Participant, Inc in New York in 2006 and has been exhibited at PKM Gallery, Beijing, China, 2006; The Hospital, London, England, 2006; and Context Galleries, Derry, Ireland, 2007. He was awarded a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2006 and an Artists Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2004.
Parable of the Garden: Contemporary Media Art from Iran & Centtral Asia
Gallery talk with curators Leeza Ahmady, Sarah Cunningham & Deborah Hutton
February 20, 2008, 4pm, The College Art Gallery
Geographically focusing on former Persia and its cultural legacy, the Parable of the Garden exhibit presents recent media works by artists from Iran and Central Asia. The exhibit thematically explores not only the traditional garden and the contemporary sense of place, but also notions of paradise lost and found, lessons learned and forgotten, and traditions cherished and rejected. The show features works by ten artists or collaborative teams hailing from Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Two of the artists now live in Europe, but the rest remain in Central Asia, and all engage in the cultural dialogue of place and identity. The media in which they work include digital photography, video, installation, and graphic design.
2006 - 2007
Artists Discussion for Dress Code Exhibition, March 21 7pmTo complement the Dress Code exhibition, a panel discussion featuring all three artists Elke Lehmann, JillianMcdonald and Momoyo Torimitsu will be moderated by Liselot van der Heijden who curated the exhibit. The Panel will be held on Wednesday, March 21 at 7pm in the Library Auditorium. Dress Code is an exhibition of works that emphasizes the role of clothes on a social and emotional level.
Elke Lehmann Re-bagged: First Collection
Lehman shops at mega-brand stores to select materials for her clothing/packaging hybrids. She then inserts each shopping bag into the garment it contained to create a new wearable item. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Jillian Macdonald Seams.
In a downtown Manhattan storefront, one year after September 11, 2001, Macdonald invited passersby to lend a piece of clothing for the exhibit. After interviewing the lenders about their fears and anxieties, Macdonald embroidered personal protection messages into the seams of the clothing. Photo courtesy the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Momoyo Torimitsu Miyata Jiro
In her public performances, Torimitsu cares for a life-sized crawling robot of a stereotypical businessman. Documentation of both public and media response from cities around the world will be on display. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Nic Collins, February 28th, 12:30pm, Location TBA
Nic Collins's circuit bending workshop at TCNJ
Collins is an internationally recognized electronic music composer, installation artist and hacker. Nic Collins recently published Handmade Electronic Music & The Art of Hardware Hacking
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for many years with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles around the world. He lived most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. He is currently Chair of the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent recordings are available on PlateLunch, Periplum and Apestaartje. His book, Handmade Electronic Music Ð The Art of Hardware Hacking, will be published by Routledge in 2006.
View Nic Collins web site
Deborah Hutton, October 25th, 2pm, Library lecture room 017
Hutton is an Art Historian teaching at The College of New Jersey.
"Material and Metaphor in 17th-century Indian Art"
Emaciated holymen, opulent rulers, sensuous beauties-these are just some of the subjects populating the paintings produced at the workshops of the Mughal and Adil Shahi courts. The Mughals of North India are remembered for patronizing exquisite manuscript and album paintings. Although less well known, the Adil Shahis of Bijapur, in the Deccan region of South India, also supported the production of luxurious images. This lecture compares the paintings from these two important dynasties. How did the pictures embody the contexts of the courtly cultures that produced them? To what extent did they capture the material realities of life? In what ways did they strive to depict otherworldly realms? By addressing the question of material versus metaphor in Mughal and Bijapuri painting, we can uncover the diversity as well as the pre-eminent role of art in Indo-Islamic courtly culture during the 17th century.
Steven Siegel, September 12th, 8pm, Library lecture room 017
Siegel is an internationally recognized sculptor that maintains a site specific practice as well as a studio sculptural practice. In discussing a past project, Siegel stated "This piece comes out of an interest in the landscape and how it's formed and what kind of human intervention is acceptable in it... This kind of art is testing the boundary between nature and culture." View examples of Siegel's work
2005-2006
Luba Lukova is a renowned artist and designer working in New York. Her distinctive art utilizes metaphors, juxtaposition of symbols and economy of line and text to succinctly capture humanity's elemental themes. Wining commissions from the New York Times, Adobe Systems, Wall Street Journal, Sony Music, Harvard University, Time Magazine and the War Resisters League. Lukova's work has been published in numerous national magazines and books as well as garnering many awards. She has been the recipient of the Grand Prix Savignac/World's Most Memorable Poster Award at the UNESCO's International Poster Salon and the organization has held a solo exhibition of her work in its headquarters in Paris. In 2006 Clay & Gold Editions will publish the first comprehensive book about her art.
Tana Hargest is a web designer and visual artist. Her solo and group exhibitions have been presented at the Sol Koffler Gallery in Providence, RI; The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN; La Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas in Mexico City; and in New York at the International Center for Photography and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Hargest has been a visiting artist at the California Institute of Arts and the University of Illinois. She holds a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design and has been an Artist-in-Residence at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Harvestworks.
Joan Linder: "I use representational imagery to give voice to my point of view of the world. I explore gender issues, systems of power, personal emotions and memory, architecture, and landscape. For years now I have worked on several projects concurrently. The projects cover different subjects, are either paintings or drawings, and range from Xerox machines to my grandparents to fat naked men to urban landscapes. The large-scale pen and ink landscape drawings are created on-site only and use perception as the basis for interpretation."
"I am a woman drawing and painting men with big bodies: big bellies, balls, and asses. I think about R. Crumb and wonder what he would make if he were a she."
Joan has an international exhibition record and is represented by Mixed Greens, NYC
2004-2005
Artistic collaborators Sala Wong and Peter WilliamsSala Wong works with physical media, computer-controlled environments, and wearable art. Her multimedia installations explore the boundaries between real and virtual, the traditional and digital enhanced environments, as well as the social issues of diversity in art and culture. Ms Wong's work has been exhibited internationally, including Siggraph 2002 Art Gallery in San Antonio, USA; ISEA 2002 in Nagoya, Japan; ISEA 2004 in the Baltic; and Art Concepts in St. Petersburg, Russia. Peter Williams received his Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from The University of Western Ontario where he worked primarily with drawing and collage media, exploring intersections between personal and popular narratives. In May 2003, he received his MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts from The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Inspired by stream-of-consciousness writing, concrete and imagist poetry, his recent video, installation and book works illustrate his relationship with the world he finds himself in.
Kate Gilmore's videos present unusual scenarios in which a woman struggles against seemingly impossible odds. The videos' central character, played by the artist, often seems to be attempting to execute an indeterminate task, and at times seems to be struggling for her very survival. These situations can be so precarious, that her very safety is called into question. In a recent exhibition at White Columns, Gilmore shows On My Way to the Prom the World Collapsed on my Head, a new piece in which a woman dressed in formalwear is digging her way out of a pile of rubble. The accompanying soundtrack, "Islands in the Stream," provides a familiar and quintessentially cheesy prom song that hints at the heroine's ultimate isolation. The video will be presented within an installation perilously built of the same materials under which its protagonist is buried. Gilmore is a graduate of Bates College and the School of Visual Arts. The White Columns exhibition was her first solo exhibition in New York City, other exhibitions have been at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Bronx Museum of Art, as well as international venues. Online Documentation of a Recent Installation: http://www.whitecolumns.org/wr.gilmore/gallery.html
Isabel Chang is a digital artist, web designer and online writer. Over the last two years, Isabel has been designing and animating the PBS award winning P.O.V. websites. P.O.V. (a cinema term for 'point of view') is public television's annual award-winning showcase for independent non-fiction films. Recent P.O.V projects include: "Borders, an ongoing series that explores borders in our lives;" "Dying in America: A Chronology;" "Flagwars: A Tale of Three Cities." Isabel Chang has also created a number of independent online projects that concern themselves with using the Internet to construct collaborative narratives. Isabel was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1975, her parent's later immigrated to Dallas. She studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Cornell University and received her MFA from Columbia University. Isabel is presently based in New York City. Online portfolio: http://www.foxfatale.com/
2003-2004
Chris Doyle was born in Pennsylvania in 1959. He received his BA from Boston College (1981) and his Masters of Architecture from Harvard University (1985). His first solo gallery exhibition, In Private, was presented at Jessica Murray Projects (2002). His public art projects include Motor Home at The Queens Museum of Art, New York; LEAP in Columbus Circle, New York; Flock at the Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; and What I See When I Look At You at The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. He has also been included in exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Galerie J. Fragnera, Prague; and PARK4DTV, Amsterdam. Doyle lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.Regine Basha has been curating independently in galleries and public spaces in New York since 1997 and more recently internationally. Previously, she had lived and worked in Montreal as Director of the Art Gallery of the Saidye Bronfman Centre. From 1998-2000, she had realized projects in collaboration with Mayday Productions, a curatorial collective that mounted day-long situational events in public and semi-public spaces. From 1999-2001, she held the position of Cultural Affairs Officer for the Canadian Consulate in New York. Her essays have appeared in art/text, Performing Arts Journal, Trans and aRude Magazine Regine is currently Adjunct Curator at the Austin Arthouse as she continues to develop other projects in Montreal and Turkey.
Brett Cook Dizney's work is described in a recent Art in America review as committed to marginalized people: "Despite the ever-diminishing number of artists making art in the spirit of political activism, 30-something Brett Cook-Dizney remains committed to creating work "about giving marginalized people a voice," as he's quoted in the press release for his latest exhibition. This African-American artist has done site-specific, not-for-profit and sometimes "non-permissionar' projects in the ghettos of South Central L.A. and Harlem, asking his subjects (the inhabitants of these neighborhoods) to take a literal hand in representing themselves publicly. For his latest show, "REVOLUTION," Cook-Dizney presented one of paintings and another of drawings, all portraying renowned individuals who have done radical work in support of humanity." Brett Cook Dizney is represented by P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY, past exhibitions venues include Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Durham, NC; Stony Brook University Gallery; Gaea Foundation/Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; Community Healthcare Network/Lower East Side Center, NYC; Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
Art and Interactive Multimedia Building (AIMM)