Visiting Artist Talks
2009
JOSEPH GRIGELY
Joseph Grigely is an artist and a critical theorist with a specialty in bibliography and textual criticism. His articles include “White” in Cabinet (Fall 2007), “Blindness and Deafness as Metaphors: An Anthological Essay” in the Journal of Visual Culture (Summer 2006).
PANEL DISCUSSION: CONTEMPORARY ART IN CHINA - 9/10/09
Moderator: Wang, Chunchen, curator & professor, Central Academy of Fine Art and featured artists Li, Shuan and Liu, Xuguang. Liu, Xuguang has been teaching at the Beijing Film Academy since 2004 where he is the course director for the New Media Lab in the Fine Art Department. Li, Shuan graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts where he studied painting. He currently works for the Professor and Vice Dean of the Department of Painting at the Beijing Film Academy.
CHRIS ATKINS, Coordinator MAEP & Scholar, 9/24/09
Chris Atkins is Coordinator of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, a unique curatorial department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Before starting at the MAEP last March, Chris was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Macalester College where he taught a visual cultures course based on a thematic approach to fine art, national monuments, literature, and cinema..
BEVERLY SEMMES, Visiting Artist, 10/7/09
Beverly Semmes is an internationally recognized artist who has been showing her work since 1990. By the mid-1990s, she was exhibiting work across the United States and in Europe. Semmes attended Yale University School of Art where she was awarded an MFA in Sculpture (1987).
SYMPOSIUM on CAST METAL ART
Artists Paul McMahill, Coral Lambert, Laura Griffith & George Beasley give presentations of their work at the Symposium of Cast Metal Art. The symposium was held at the Regis Center for Art in conjunction with the 40th Annual Minnesota Iron Pour on 4-17-09.
KIM DICKEY
The Ceramics Collective presents Kim Dickey. Dickey is a ceramic artist who likes to work with the familiar but insists her concepts are too layered in meaning to be described as merely representational. While Dickey shies from the label of whimsical, there is clearly a sense of humor present. One of her earliest, and some say most controversial, works was a series of female urinals called “Lady J's.”
MARK MANDERS
Mark Manders is a Dutch artist whose body of work consists mainly of installations, drawings, sculptures and short films. Typical of his work is the arrangement of random objects, such as tables, chairs, light bulbs, blankets and dead animals. He is best known for his rough-hewn clay sculptures.
2008
CLIVE MURPHY, Visiting Artist
His artist practice draws from the peripheries of visual culture, mining diverse sources such as porn spam, found audio cassette tape, evangelical sermon titles, computer generated technical drawings, folk art embroideries and fairground inflatables. He appropriates and reconfigures familiar signifies in order to explore their wider cultural resonance, uncovering new ground for the proliferation of diverse meanings.
MARK BEASLEY, Independent Curator, Writer, and Artist
Currently works as curator for Creative Time in New York, he is working as Curator of Creative Time in New York, which “presents the most innovative art in the public realm… working with artists who ignite the imagination and explore ideas that shape society.”
ENRIQUE CHAGOYA, Visiting Artist
American artist Enrique Chagoya appropriates and reorganizes images taken from the American mass media, Mexican folk art and religious sources, using them to create biting and often very humorous political and social satire. His art becomes a product of collisions between historical visions, ancient and modern, marginal and dominant paradigms.
ALLISON SMITH, Visiting Artist
Visiting artist who works in different media, including printmaking, drawing, and digital arts. His lithographs and colored pencil drawings have been described as existing someplace where naivety meets genius.
JERRY SALTZ, Critic and Writer
Jerry Saltz is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism three times. In 2000 he was the sole advisor for the 1995 Whitney Biennial. He is currently teaching at Columbia University; The School of Visual Arts in New York; and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives in New York City.
STEVE DIETZ, Artist and Curator
Steve Dietz is an artist and curator based in Minneapolis. He is the Artistic Director of ZER01, which produces the biennial arts festival “ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge.” Steve is also the founder of the New Media Initiatives and Gallery 9 at the Walker Art Center, and serves as the executive director of Northern Lights, an interactive media-oriented arts agency in the Twin Cities.
DANA SHUTZ, Artist
Schutz’s pictures are vividly colored, highly painterly and present an imaginary world in which mutation is the norm. The precise tone of her pictures has intrigued and perplexed spectators. Her characters are as humorous as they are grotesque. Schutz is an artist of enormous intelligence and awareness, fascinated by the possibilities of her medium.
SCOTT STULEN, Visiting Artist
Scott Stulen received his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2004 is the Project Director for mnartists.org at the Walker Art Center, The Director of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers, an independent curator and mixed media artist. Scott's work explores personal and collective memory, pop culture, failure, loss and obsession through painting, sculpture, installation and video.
