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Visiting Artists Series Fall 2006

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Visiting Artists Series – Fall 2006

Public Lecture: Polly Apfelbaum (Painting)
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 | 5:00 pm
ART 1.102, Art Building Auditorium, 23rd and San Jacinto Streets, UT Austin Campus

Polly Apfelbaum creates what she calls “fallen paintings,” hybrid works of rare beauty that exist in a contentious, ambivalent space between painting, sculpture, and installation. Often arranged on the floor, spreading around corners in indeterminate shapes, Apfelbaum's overall forms are comprised of intricate, nearly psychedelic layers of dyed fabric, as if myriad smaller paintings have accreted or grown from a central cluster of shapes and colors. Apfelbaum is known for her pallete of stunning, eye–popping colors and hues. These works transform the colors of mass culture — of television, saturated magazine ads, bags of Wonder Bread — into wild, oscillating spectra bordering on the organic. Apfelbaum is a graduate of Tyler School of Art and has had solo exhibitions in numerous museums and galleries around the world including, Kiasma: Museum of Contemporary Art NYKY, Helsinki, Finland, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia and The Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City, to name a few. Her work is represented by D'Amelio Terras, New York.

Public Lecture: Daniel Bozhkov (Transmedia)
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 | 5:00 pm
ART 1.102, Art Building Auditorium, 23rd and San Jacinto Streets, UT Austin Campus

"…In the category of nutty things that madcap contemporary artists will do these days, there is “Learn How to Fly Over a Very Large Larry” by Daniel Bozhkov, a Bulgarian who lives in New York. “Larry”is Larry King, the talk show host, of whom Mr. Bozhkov made a huge portrait in a hayfield in Maine. Later, as we also see in Mr. Bozhkov's video, Mr. King got wind of the stunt and shared it with his viewers on national television. Mr. King appears bemused. Probably he didn't grasp that the project is, in part, an affectionate satire of Earthwork activities by artists like Robert Smithson and Dennis Oppenheim, as well as a Warholian comment on the cult of celebrity. Mr. King may have got the play on the modern myth of crop circles made by extraterrestrials…" (Exhibition review excerpt, Daniel Bozhkov at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Times, Jan. 31, 2003 by Ken Johnson.) As part of his upcoming exhibition at Arthouse, Bulgarian–born artist Daniel Bozhkov conceived of a site–specific performance that would bring together a diverse collection of local singers at the heart of the city, Barton Springs. The piece, to be called Cantata for Twelve Choirs and Several Salamanders, would involve each of the participating ensembles performing the spiritual “Wade in the Water” in the area known as Sunken Gardens, an area of the pool no longer used for swimming by humans but still a favorite recreational spot for the Barton Springs salamander. On Saturday, Aug. 26, the choirs assembled to sing and be filmed by Bozhkov and collaborator Cauleen Smith, and Chronicle photographer Bret Brookshire captured his own images of the event. The film will be shown as part of the exhibition “Daniel Bozhkov: Recent Works” Sept. 9 – Oct. 22 at Arthouse. This exhibition will then travel to the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and the University of North Texas, Denton in 2007. Bozhkov's work is represented by Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.

Public Lecture: Rachel Harrison (Sculpture)
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 | 5:00 pm
ART 1.102, Art Building Auditorium, 23rd and San Jacinto Streets, UT Austin Campus

"…For all its apparent haphazardness, Rachel Harrison's new work adheres to a few steady principles. First impressions are designed to deceive. Raw is mixed with cooked, handmade with commercial, offhand with careful, cheap with pricey. And, a most reliable trademark (though not a feature of every work), resolutely abstract form is mixed with figurative products or images, often photographic…" (Exhibition review excerpt, Rachel Harrison at Greene Naftali, in Art in America, Jan, 2005 by Nancy Princenthal). Intentionally thwarting easy reading, Rachel Harrison sets up mysteries, encouraging the viewer to look actively, both physically and conceptually, and to follow her allusive clues into niches, behind walls, and through visual mazes. Solo museum exhibitions of her work have been mounted at the San Fransisco MOMA, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Camden Art Center in London. Recent and upcoming group exhibition venues include the Hirshhorn Museum, the Carnegie nternational, the Brooklyn Museum, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam and the Migros Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, to name a few. Harrison's work is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.

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