Adrian Saxe

Adrian Saxe is one of the most important artists working in ceramics in the United States today. His work was the subject of a one-person survey exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which travelled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shigaraki, Japan and the Newark Museum of Art. He has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions at venues including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Taiwan Museum of Art; and the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres, France, among others. He is a Professor and area head of Ceramics in the UCLA Department of Art.

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

Allen Ruppersberg

Allen Ruppersberg is a conceptual artist whose work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books. His work is often participatory and he finds source material in the everyday. He is recognized as a seminal practitioner of installation art, having produced such influential works as Al’s Cafe (1969), Al’s Grand Hotel (1971), and The Novel That Writes Itself (1978). Since the late 1960s, his work has been the subject of over 80 solo exhibitions and nearly 200 group exhibitions. He has been included in three Whitney Biennials, Documenta V, Lyon Biennale, and Sculpture Project Münster. His work is held in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and lives in Los Angeles and New York.