Visitation Station

VCU DEPARTMENT OF SCULPTURE + EXTENDED MEDIA VISITING ARTISTS: SPRING 2008

Teresita Fernández
lecture: Tuesday, February 12 at 5:30 pm
VCU Grace Harris Hall,
Harris Auditorium
1015 Floyd Ave.

Teresita Fernández, [MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992] was born in 1968 in Miami, Florida and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions internationally and abroad at sites including the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy, the Witte de With in Rotterdam, and the Miami Art Museum.


Fernándezis the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards both in the U.S. and abroad, including the 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, and she has had residencies in Japan, Italy, and at ArtPace in San Antonio. Most importantly - she has an installation of new work on view at Reynold's Gallery this month.

from:
lehmannmaupin
grandarts
macfound.org
bio


Connie Butler
lecture: Wednesday, February 27
5:00 pm VCU Student Commons Theater
907 Floyd Ave

Connie Butler is the Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, a position she has held since February of 2006. From 1996-2006, she was Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Butler is the curator of WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, an international survey of feminist art which opened at MOCA in Los Angeles on March 4, 2007, and which will travel to The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY and The Vancouver Art Gallery. A selection of Connie Butler’s previous exhibitions at MOCA include Robert Smithson, September 2004, Willem deKooning: Tracing the Figure, 2002, Flight Patterns, 2000, and Afterimage: Drawing through Process, 1999.

She is currently working on a monographic exhibition of the South African artist Marlene Dumas, which will be co-organized by MOCA Los Angeles and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Connie Butler completed graduate work in art history at Berkeley in 1987 and, in 1996, did further graduate studies in the PhD program at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Butler has taught and lectured extensively and contributed to publications including Art + Text, Parkett and Art Journal.


from:
http://www.moca.org/wack/?p=273
http://www.frieze.com/feature_single.asp?f=1235 http://www.laweekly.com/general/features/connie-butler/174/

Please Note - the webmaster here felt that WACK exhibition at the Women's Museum in Washington DC was very disappointing. It was expensive, offered minimal discounts and a condensed version of the LA exhibition. The catalogue offered a much richer variety of work than the D.C. version of the show.

Su-Mei Tse
Lecture: March 27
(time, location TBA)

Metaphors of futility and longing mark Su-Mei Tse's (b.1973) art works with a young romantic sensibility. This Luxembourg-based artist has produced an eclectic body of work (violin, installation, photography, and sculpture) much of which relies on performance. Initially trained as a classical cellist, Tse still has a fondness for playing and strives to sensitize the audience to the complexities of sound.

from
renaissancesociety
ps1.org
nytimes
modernamuseet


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