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of Events Visual Arts Events 2008-2009 Monday, July 21 -Friday, September 12 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Chris Martin Chris Martin is a painter of vibrant abstractions who lives and works in Brooklyn and who is said to be and “artist’s artist.” He is known for his massive paintings as well as his “funky materiality,” bright hallucinatory light, gritty geometries, alien plant forms, and other visionary motifs. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Tuesday, September 23-Friday, October 3 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. Project space: Genesis P. Orridge, a confrontational artist dealing with subjects such as prostitution, pornography, serial killers and occultism. Reception: Thursday, September 25, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, September 24, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English performer, musician, writer, and artist, known to confront through multiple mediums subjects like prostitution, pornography, serial killers and occultism. In 1969 Genesis became the founding artist and theorist of seminal British performance art group C.O.U.M. Transmissions, and in 1975, became co-founder of cult band Throbbing Gristle. Sponsored by the Mason Gross GalleriesCivic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, October 1, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Stanley Whitney Stanley Whitney has been exhibiting his abstract minimalist works since the early seventies. Working within a strict set of self imposed constraints his paintings form a continuum of affirmative statements. His paintings occupy their own “time” and refer to one another in an ongoing conversation about color relations. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Tuesday, October 14 -Friday, October 31 Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. Never Has She Ever... Featuring art by Renee Cox, Hanneline Rogeberg, Lauren Kelly, Susanna Coffey, Cauleen Smith, and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum. An exhibition featuring 10 women artists re-representing the female gaze and figure twisting that challenges internalized notions of beauty and womanhood. Reception: Thursday, October 16, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities. Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Lauren Kelly Lauren Kelly describes herself as a “thirty something adult still invested in toys.” She fabricates elaborate props and scenes, and uses claymation, stop animation, and Barbie dolls to symbolize society’s use and abuse of images of women. Lauren’s video Big Gurl led her to be one of four emerging artists to receive an Altoid Award 2008 at the New Museum. She teaches and is the director of the gallery at Prairie View A&M, Texas. Sponsored by the Mason Gross Galleries Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, October 22, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Renee Cox Renee Cox has stated that her “main concern is the deconstruction of stereotypes and the empowerment of women.” In her photographs she depicts herself as her primary model in order to promote an idea of “self-love” as articulated by Bell Hooks in her book Sisters of the Yam. Through her striking works, where she subverts classical art historical images, Renee Cox creates new positive visual representations of African American women. Sponsored by the Brodsky CenterDouglass Library FREE Wednesday, October 29, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Susanna Coffey Susanna Coffey has worked in the format of self-portraiture to make a lifetime investigation of painting and representations of women. Acknowledging that painting is a signifier for beauty itself, she uses this medium to investigate the realm of the aesthetic and the subject of feminine appearance. Within this framework she is also engaged in larger world perspectives and new themes of war and peace. Sponsored by the Mason Gross GalleriesCivic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, November 5, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim is a conceptual sculptor whose work gained international recognition in the late sixties when he embraced Earth and Body Art, Video and Performance Art. In a series of works produced between 1970 and 1974, Oppenheim used his own body as a site to challenge the Self: he explored the boundaries of personal risk, transformation, and communication. In his work since, which includes his haunting machine pieces, he transforms everyday objects, fuses sculpture and architecture, and creates metaphors for the artistic process that are characterized by a celebration of irrationality and chaos. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, November 6-Friday, November 14 Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. BFA and BA Open Project space: Aaron Hraba and Charlie Roberts Aaron Hraba absorbs his audience into an autobiographical world of internal social conflicts that the viewer cannot avoid. Charlie Roberts’ performance videos are silent testimonies that question what it means to be one with yourself. Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Lily van der Stokker Lily van der Stokker is a Dutch artist who has received international attention for large-scale wall paintings that are striking for their eruptions of bright colors and playfully subversive, doodle-like imagery. Through her own conceptual hybrid form, often incorporating furniture and text, she presents a deliberate contrast to art’s frequent detachment from ordinary people’s reality. Taking on such “forbidden” subjects as friendship, family, and happiness, van der Stokker questions the conventional roles of beauty, self-expression, and pleasure. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, November 20-Friday, December 12 Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. First Year MFA Exhibition Project space: Pepon Osorio: Badge of Honor Osorio's work is influenced by his experience as a social worker. It evolves from an interaction with the neighborhoods and people with whom he works. Reception: Thursday, November 20, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Project space is co-sponsored by the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities and the Center for Latino Arts and Culture. Wednesday, December 3, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Gerry Beegan Gerry Beegan is a design historian and graphic designer. He has presented his research on the history of the mass media internationally as digital and performance pieces at venues such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His self-initiated works, which often take the designed object and its relationship to language and subjectivity as their focus, have been exhibited in galleries in London and New York. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, December 10, 6:00 p.m. Pepon Osorio Co-sponsored by the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic & Public Partnerships in the Arts and Humanities and the Center for Latino Arts and Culture. Crossroads Theatre Tuesday, December 16 -Friday, January 23 Extended hours on Wednesday until 6:00 p.m. Saturday, noon to 4:00 p.m. Brodsky Center Annual Exhibition
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