Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7pm
Mary Kelly
Mary Kelly has contributed extensively to the discourse of feminism and postmodernism through her large-scale narrative installations and theoretical writings. Her recent exhibitions include the 2008 Biennale of Sydney; Documenta XII, Kassel, 2007; WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2007; and the 2004 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She is the author of Post-Partum Document (RKP London, 1983 and University of California Press, 1998) and Imaging Desire (MIT Press, 1996). A survey of her work was published by Phaidon Press in 1997. She is Professor in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Mary Kelly. Photo: Zimmerman |
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 7pm
Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas is an artist whose work explores social histories played out through a complex cinematic and televisual language. His interest in the social implementation of western ideas of progress, particularly utopian philosophies, is located in their often divisive political and economic effects. His interrogation of the structural possibilities of film and video, in concert with intricately developed narratives, has resulted in a number of groundbreaking contemporary art works. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including three Documentas (1992, 1997, 2002) and three Venice Biennales (1990, 2001, 2005). Major solo exhibitions have been hosted by the Museo Renia Sofia, Madrid; the Vancouver Art Gallery; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Württembergischer Kunstverein, and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. He is a faculty member of Art Center College of Design and lives in Vancouver.
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Stan Douglas. Photo: Michael Courtney |
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Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 7pm
Jim Goldberg
Jim Goldberg is a renowned photographer who has created award-winning photographic books, multi-media exhibitions and video installations using image and text. His work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Notable publications include Open See (Steidl, 2009), Raised by Wolves (Scalo, 1995), and Rich and Poor (Steidl, 2009; Random House, 1985). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, three NEA awards, and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award. He lives in San Francisco and is a Professor of Art at the California College of Arts and Crafts.
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Jim Goldberg, Joe, Liberia, 2008 from Open See |
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Art Council Chair Lecture 2009-2010:
Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 7pm
Anthony Hernandez
Anthony Hernandez has been exhibiting his photography since 1970. His books include Landscapes for the Homeless (Sprengel Museum, Hanover 1995), Sons of Adam: Landscapes for the Homeless II (Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, and Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, 1997), Pictures for Rome (Smart Art Press, 2000), Waiting for Los Angeles (Nazraeli Press, 2002), Everything (Nazraeli Press, 2005), Waiting, Sitting, Fishing and Some Automobiles (Loosestrife Editions, 2007). His work is included in the permanent collections of museums in the United States and in Europe. He was the winner of a Rome Prize in 1998. In 2009, a survey of his work was shown at the Vancouver Art Gallery and he was awarded a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the UCLA Art Council Chair for Spring 2010.
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Anthony Hernandez, Everything #2, 2003-2004, chromogenic print, 61" x 61". Courtesy of the artist and Christopher Grimes Gallery. |
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