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2009 - 2010
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Lecture - Making Sense of Chaos
Michaël J. Amy is an art historian, critic, lecturer and curator. He is an Associate Professor of Art History in the College of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Michaël Amy, the leading authority on Michelangelo's commission for Apostle statues for the Cathedral of Florence, is an expert on 15th and 16th century Renaissance art and architecture, as well as 20th and 21st century art. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Burlington Magazine, Art in America, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
4:15 PM - Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom
Sponsored by Visual Arts & the Lectures and Concerts Committee - Open to the Public
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Gregory Witt - Artist's Talk
Combining elements of high and low tech as well as old and new tech, Witt’s pieces are droll twists on familiar systems and frames of reference, with a playful but illuminating sense of the absurd. Employing processes and materials from carpentry, robotics, and video, his aim is to reinvent everyday things--from clouds to elevators to roller coasters--so that they can function for themselves.
After receiving his MFA degree from Carnegie Mellon University in May, 2009, Witt attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Drawing this past summer. He lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
To get a preview of Gregory Witt’s work, go to: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gwitt/Projects.html
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Jessica Gandolf
"Breaking the Surface" an Artist’s talk about her work.
Beam Classroom of the Visual Art Center.
4:15 PM.
This presentation is free and open to the public.
Ms. Gandolf is an NEA Regional Visual Arts fellowship recipient. She has been awarded residencies at The MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and The Cummington Community for the Arts in Massachusetts. Her work has been exhibited across the country as well as internationally and in Maine at The Portland Museum of Art and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. She is represented by Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York and in Maine by Aucocisco Gallery.
Jessica Gandolf "Breaking the Surface"
Tuesday October 20, 2009
Visiting Artist Lecture: Eric Baudelaire - Anabases
Eric Baudelaire was born in the United States and after receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, returned to Paris, France in 2003 where he currently lives. Since 2006, Baudelaire’s work has been exhibited throughout Europe and North America and upcoming exhibitions include Anabases I, his second solo show at Elizabeth Dee, New York, which will run simultaneously with its counterpart Anabases II at Galerie Greta Meert, Bruxelles.
Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center
7:00 PM
Thursday October 15, 2009
Artist Talk, McKee Photography Grant recipients.
Rachel Goldman '10 and John Lehman '10 will discuss their summer photographic work.
Searles 315
7:30pm
Friday, September 25, 2009
Robert Storr, Critic, Artist, Curator, and Dean of the Yale School of Art
Common Hour Talk 
"Arts Self Sufficiency in a Boom/Bust Artworld"
Robert Robert Storr is a painter, art historian and critic, and prodigious writer about the theory and practice of art. He earned a B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1972 and an M.F.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978. He was named dean of the Yale School of Art for a five-year period beginning July 2006 and was the director of the Venice Biennial in 2007, the first American invited to assume that position. From 1990 to 2002 Storr was curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He also organized a number of reinstallations of MoMA's permanent collection, covering such topics as abstraction and the modern grotesque. He has been described as a "vital link between the museum world and academia" and a gifted writer. His regular column, "View from the Bridge," appears in frieze magazine.
Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center
Monday September 21, 2009
Michelle Oosterbaan, Places on a Map
Artist's Talk - Beam Classroom at the VAC (Visual Arts Center) at 4:15 pm.
She works primarily with drawing and installation, and has work shown at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, MO, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Museum in Philadelphia, as well as The Drawing Center in New York City. She has also been awarded numerous fellowships and residencies in The Netherlands, France and Iceland, as well as The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA. Her talk is entitled “Places on a Map” and is free and open to the public.
Detail of Drop Off Dark Star, Amber Babes and Bedrock,
Colored Pencil and Graphite, 2008
September 5 - October 3, 2009
Professor Mark Wethli Exhibition at Icon Contemporary Art
19 Mason Street, Brunswick, Maine
Weekdays 1-5 PM / Saturdays 1-4 PM
Opening reception Saturday, September 5, 4-6 PM
