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Art and Art History

Visiting Artists Series — Fall 2005

Public Lecture: Photographer Justine Kurland
October 4, 2005 | 5:30 PM
Art 1.102
Department of Art and Art History

The first of the Fall 2005 visiting artists, Justine Kurland, will arrive on campus on October 4th. Justine Kurland practices a style of photographic mannerism that exploits staged realities in order to explore the social landscape of girlhood.

A graduate of the M.F.A. at Yale University, her work was recently on show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), and Institute of Contemporary Art, (Pennsylvania). Public collections include: Institute of Contemporary Photography (New York), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Detroit Institute of the Arts (Detroit) and the Harn Museum of Art (Gainsville, Florida)

Justine will visit the University of Texas' Department of Art and Art History on October 4–6th to conduct critiques, presentations and a public lecture on October 4th at 5:30 pm. This lecture is free and open to the Public and will be held in ART 1.102

Public Lecture: Sculptor Dario Robleto
October 24th, 2005 | 5:30 PM
Art 1.102
Department of Art and Art History

The culture of popular music is pivotal to Dario Robleto's work. In particular the concept of sampling, a term etymogically linked with the emergent DJ & Hip–Hop cultures of the 1980s & 1990s, provides the literal & philosophical wellspring of material for the artist. What sampling in music affords is the combination of recycled sounds, snippets, phrasings, and lyrical concepts; what becomes old and discarded can once again be vital, with its prior life informing its current meaning. In Robleto's art, objects that existed in one state and for one purpose have been transformed, either in bits or in total, into new objects that still rely on the their prior meaning and purpose.

Dario Robleto is a Faculty member at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. He received his B.F.A. in sculpture from The University of Texas at San Antonio; also attended Yale Summer School of Music and Art and University of Texas at El Paso. Recent solo exhibitions include Southern Bacteria, ACME, Los Angeles; Diary of a Resurrectionist, Galerie Praz–Delavallade, Paris, and Centre d'Art Contemporain, Montpelier, France; Eunuch Euthanasia, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas; Say Goodbye to Substance, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York; and Roses in the Hospital/Men are the New Women, Inman Gallery, Houston. Recent group exhibitions: Whitney Biennial (2004); Treble, Sculpture Center, Long Island City; Material Possibilities, Griffith Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; and New Work, Inman Gallery, Houston. Awards and commissions: AICA (Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art) Award for Best Show in a Commercial Gallery Nationally, First Place (2004). Dario has lectured at California College of Arts and Crafts; Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C.; and University of New Orleans. (2004). Dario currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.

Robleto will visit the University of Texas' Department of Art and Art History on October 4–6th to conduct critiques, presentations and a public lecture on October 24th at 5:30 pm. This lecture is free and open to the Public and will be held in ART 1.102

Public Lecture: Painter Trenton Doyle Hancock
November 1st, 2005 | 5:30 PM
Art 1.102
Department of Art and Art History

Trenton Doyle Hancock's prints, drawings, and collaged felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist's unfolding narrative. Each new work by Hancock is a contribution to the saga of the Mounds, portraying the birth, life, death, afterlife, and even dream states of these half–animal, half–plant creatures. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern–into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub–plots, and convey symbolic meaning. Balancing moral dilemmas with wit and a musical sense of language and color, Hancock's works create a painterly space of psychological dimension. Hancock lives and works in Houston, Texas.

Trenton Doyle Hancock was featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, becoming one of the youngest artist in history to participate in this prestigious survey. His work has been the subject of one–person exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. The recipient of numerous awards, Hancock lives and works in Houston where he was a 2002 Core Artist in Residence at the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Trenton will visit the University of Texas' Department of Art and Art History on October 4-6th to conduct critiques, presentations and a public lecture on October 24th at 5:30 pm. This lecture is free and open to the Public and will be held in ART 1.102