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Spring 2008

Monday, April 7, 2008
James McGarrell
Artist James McGarrell will discuss his work in a lecture entitled "The Rules of My Game".

James McGarrell's paintings can be found in the permanent collections of a number of institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Artist James McGarrell will discuss his work in a lecture entitled "The Rules of My Game".Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Art Museums of New Orleans, Saint Louis, Santa Barbara, Hamburg, Germany, the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University and the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia. His work has been included in five Whitney Museum Annuals and Biennials, two Carnegie International Exhibitions, Documenta in Kassel, Germany; and the American Pavilion of the 1968 Venice Biennale. In 1995 McGarrell received the Jimmy Ernst lifetime achievement award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Images of some of McGarrell's work can be previewed at his website, http://redwingstanza.com/

7:30 PM in the Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center.

Previously

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
7:30 pm in Beam Classroom, Visual Art Center.
Free and open to the public.

Her lecture, “Just Art”, considers the intersections between art and activism, giving particular attention to Women on Waves, a Dutch organization supporting women’s human rights by preventing unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortions throughout the world.

Lambert-Beatty’s research focuses on art since 1960, especially performance and video. She served for two years as managing editor of October magazine, and has been a fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and the Getty Research Institute.

Lambert-Beatty's writing on performance art, postmodern dance, minimalism, and activist art has been published in Trans, October, Art Journal, and Signs, and in the catalogs for the exhibitions "A Minimal Future?: Art as Object 1958-1968" (MIT Press, 2004) and "Radical Juxtapositions: Yvonne Rainer 1961-2002" (Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, 2003).

Lambert-Beatty is also the author of "Being Watched: Yvonne Rainer and the 1960s" (MIT Press, September 2008).

This lecture is presented by the series Art and Social Change; and Visual Culture in the 21st Century, a yearlong program exploring the vitality and importance of the visual arts.

McKee Photography Grant
Application Deadline:  April 11th, 2008 by 5:00 PM

The McKee Photography Grant, supported by the McKee Fund for Photography, an endowed fund established in 2003 to augment the photography offerings within the Visual Arts Department at Bowdoin College, is intended to support annually one student photography project during the summer months and a public lecture and exhibition of the project upon completion in the fall.  The grant consists of up to $1000 to allay expenses, such as supplies and travel, associated with the project.  The funds will not be used to provide a stipend.  Application Requirements

Bright Common Spikes: The Sculpture of John Bisbee
Portland Museum of Art
January 24, 2008 - March 23, 2008
The Portland Museum of Art will present an overview of the work of Bowdoin lecturer in the Visual Arts Department, sculptor John Bisbee, best known for his inventive pieces made from brads, nails, and spikes. In addition to some of his earliest pieces, the exhibition will include several of his most recent “one ton” works large-scale installation pieces that climb the walls, snake across the floor, or pile up in corners. The exhibition will also include a video documentary of Bisbee’s recent installation at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Taken together, the 25 works on view will cover his career over the past 20 years.

Bisbee Spine Bisbee Untitled
John Bisbee
Spine, 1995
welded brads
dimensions variable		 John Bisbee
Untitled, 2008
hand-forged, hammered nails
dimensions variable