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THURSDAYS at 7:00pm
Presented at the Hammer Museum
Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
(at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Admission is free
Parking is available in the museum's underground parking lot for $3 after 6:30 pm |
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Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk, video still of performance, 1989
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May 8, 2008
Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser's work has been identified with performance, video, context art, and institutional critique. Major projects include installations for the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennale, and the Kunsthalle Bern. She has created performances for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the MICA Foundation, New York. She has also performed solo work at the Whitechapel, London; the Dia Art Foundation, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The Kunstverein in Hamburg organized a mid-career survey of her work in 2003 and a collection of her writings was published by MIT Press in 2004. Fraser is an Associate Professor in New Genres at the UCLA Department of Art.
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May 1, 2008
Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. His work has been included in many Museum collections, most notably the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Crewdson's most recent work, produced from 2005-2007, will be shown in the spring of 2008 at Luhring Augustine in New York, Gagosian in Los Angeles and White Cube in London. Crewdson is a Professor of Photography at the Yale School of Art and currently lives in New York City.
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Photo: Sune Woods
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March 13, 2008
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu was born in Nairobi, Kenya and now lives in New York. Her work has been shown widely in the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions include those at the Miami Art Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; and Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
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Cordova Street, 1995, Chromogenic Print
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January 17, 2008
Roy Arden
Roy Arden has played a major part in the development of Vancouver as an internationally recognized center for the production of contemporary art. Arden's work is included in important museum collections in Canada, Europe, and the USA, including The Art Gallery of Ontario; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. He has also taught photography and art theory in Canada and abroad, curated many exhibitions of Canadian and international art, and written critical essays for exhibition catalogues and art journals.
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November 29, 2007
Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon's text-based paintings investigate race, sexuality and identity. Ligon's work has been included in several international group shows, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and the ICA in Philadelphia. |
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October 25, 2007
Sam Durant
Sam Durant's work has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. He has compiled and edited a monograph of Black Panther artist Emory Douglas' work, which has resulted in an exhibition at MOCA. Durant teaches art at California Institute of the Arts. |
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Visiting Artists Lectures 2006-07
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.
For more information please contact:
UCLA Department of Art
Broad Art Center, Suite 2275
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1615
(310) 825-0557
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