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Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series: Ursula von Rydingsvard and Debra Bricker Balken
In a presentation for the School of Visual Arts' Contemporary Lecture Series, art historian, theorist, and critic Debra Bricker Balken and sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard - famous for her cedar monuments - discuss the sculptor's life and career, as [...]well as the effects of subjectivity and psychology on contemporary art.
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on March 17, 2009.
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Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series: Ledelle Moe
Ledelle Moe isn't daunted by size. Her exhibition Collapse contains sculptures ranging from those that can be held in the hand to hollow concrete and steel heads that weigh 2,500 to 3,000 pounds. The South African artist speaks about creating her [...]sculptures as part of the College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts Contemporary Perspective Lecture series.
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on February 11, 2008.
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Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series: Alison Saar
Folk artist Alison Saar attributes much of her inspiration to her parents. Her mother, African American artist Betye Saar, exposed her daughter to art from African, Mexican, Indian, and Asian cultures, while her father, art conservationist Richard [...]Saar, instructed her in traditional Western works. One piece in particular, Saars says, is the marriage of those two influences. Dying Slave, an African American version of Michelangelo’s sculpture of the same name, is an upright, heavily chiseled wooden form that pointedly recalls the Renaissance master’s famous marble carving.
Although she employs a variety of media and styles, Saar is best known for her larger-than-life figurative sculptures, often carved of wood and incorporating found materials, from tin to old shoe soles. A recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Saar exhibits her work internationally. Her visit to BU was part of the School of Visual Arts’ annual Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series.
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on September 22, 2010.
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Third Annual Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture: Matthew Ritchie and Jerry Saltz
Painter Matthew Ritchie and Village Voice senior critic Jerry Saltz talk about the concept of the sublime in art. Saltz describes a visit to artist Robert Smithson's installation piece Spiral Jetty, and Ritchie discusses the ways that the colossal [...]upsets of the 20th century revised the art world's relationship to the sublime.
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on March 28, 2007.
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Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series: Trenton Doyle Hancock
Artist Trenton Doyle Hancock speaks about his work and presents a slide show of his prints, drawings, and collaged felt paintings. Together, they tell the ongoing story of a group of mythical creatures that are half animal and half plant.
Hosted [...]by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on February 26, 2007.
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Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series: Sandy Skoglund
Installation artist and photographer Sandy Skoglund is widely recognized for her large-format color photographs of people and animal inhabiting surrealistic and elaborately constructed environments. She discusses her evolution from painter to [...]photographer and her "second awakening" as a young artist in New York. She shares images of her work since the late '70s and talks about the complex, intensive photographic process involved in creating her challenging room-size sculptural installations.
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on October 16, 2006.
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CFA Art Education Conference Drawing in the Schools: Research, Practice, and Theory, Al Hurwitz
Al Hurwitz discusses the process of artistic drawing, specifically as it relates to artistic instruction, posing questions to his audience along the way. For example, in a public school do you have to study anatomy to master the human figure? [...]Hurwitz thinks not. "Learning to label parts of the body," he says, "is vastly different from experiencing it."
Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on October 4, 2003.
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CFA Professor Lucy Kim Creates Images using Genetically Modified E.coli That Produce Melanin
Lucy Kim is a professor at CFA who screen prints genetically modified E.coli cells that produce melanin.
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Showing Solo in BU's Gallery 5
Painting major Johnny Doley (CFA'19) talks about setting up his first-ever solo art installation in the College of Fine Arts' Gallery 5.
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