John Knight

Since the late 1960s, the project of John Knight has managed to negate easy categorization, by assuming an immediate and critical distance from the overly generalized label of Conceptual Art. Instead, Knight assumed a more singular position, by not hesitating to re-employ object/subjects within the vernacular, beyond the simple reinterpretation of the ready made, or simulacrum, as in the case of so many other contemporary artists working at the same time. Recent projects include, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2008), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello / EAAC (2008), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009) and at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Macba (2009). This fall, he will have an exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles and works in situ.

Mary Kelly

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Lauren Bon

Lauren Bon lives in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Her solo exhibitions include Bees and Meat (2007), ACE Gallery; Not A Cornfield, a 32-acre living sculpture on a plot of land between Chinatown and Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles (2005); and Project Room: Hand Held Objects, Santa Monica Museum of Art (2003). She has also been featured in a number of group shows at institutions including The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal (2009); Santa Monica Museum of Art (2007); The Hayward Gallery, London (2007); and the Hammer Museum (2005). She has a long history of producing large scale urban and public works (1997- 2009) in cities including Los Angeles, Belfast, Hong Kong, Edinburgh and Belgrade. 

Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and currently lives in New York. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including a show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at institutions including the Miami Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Minter was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. In September, both the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and La Conservera in Murcia, Spain presented installations of her work, including large scale projections of her video, Green Pink Caviar. October 2009 will see Green Pink Caviar gracing the digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, a public art project happening concurrently with her first exhibition at Regen Projects.

This lecture series was made possible through the generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed Art Lecture Fund and is hosted by the Hammer Museum.

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