at the New SCHOOL ..NYC.

By -

EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS

AMT VISITING ARTISTS LECTURE SERIES: JACK WHITTEN


March 20, 2013 7:00 p.m.
Jack Whitten is originally from Alabama. He went to Southern University
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to begin studying art and became involved in
Civil Rights demonstrations there. Angered by the violent resistance to
change he experienced he moved to New York City in 1960. He graduated
from Cooper Union in 1964. Afterwards he remained in New York as a working
artist, heavily influenced by the abstract expressionists then dominating the art
community.Whitten's work was featured in the Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary AmericanPainting at the Whitney Museum of American
Art in 1972. The Whitney mounted a solo exhibition of his paintings in
1974. He has also had individual shows at numerous private galleries
and universities, including a 10-year retrospective
 in 1983 at the Studio Museum in Harlem and an exhibition of memorial
 paintings in 2008 at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Currently a retrospective exhibition is being organized and the Museum of
 Contemporary Art in San Diego will open this travelling exhibition in 2014.
The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is sponsored by the School of Art, Media
, and Technology (AMT) at Parsons The New School for Design.
The lecture series, organized by Coco Fusco, director of intermedia
 initiatives at AMT, invites renowned artists from across the globe to give
 free public presentations each Wednesday.

LOCATION:
Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
ADMISSION:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
more infos http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/events.aspx?id=88452

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Soon opening at the Whitney

By Anonymous -
Image
THE WHITNEY TO PRESENT SELECTION OF EARLY SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS BY OLDENBURG, FILMS OF HIS EARLY HAPPENINGS, AND A SERIES OF WORKS BY OLDENBURG AND VAN BRUGGEN Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room Opens May 7, 2009 Press Preview: Wednesday, May 6, 10am-noon NEW YORK, April 6, 2009 – This spring, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents a selection of early sculpture and drawings by Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), as well as films of the artist’s influential Happenings, together with The Music Room, a series of works that Oldenburg made with his wife and artistic collaborator Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009). The presentation opens on May 7, 2009, and runs through August in the second-floor Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street New York, NY 10021 whitney.org/press Tel. (212) 570-3633 Fax (212) 570-4169 pressoffice@whitney.org Press Release Contact: Whitney Museum of American Art S...
Read more

what's going on @ KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE

By -
RED HOOK ? NEW YORK ? read this email sent by KENTLER INTERNATIONAL DRAWING SPACE Robert Aitchison STATE OF EMERGENCY: PORTRAITS FROM THE PANDEMIC November 6 - December 12, 2021 Join us for the Opening Reception: Saturday, November 6, 4-6pm Artist's Talk: December 5, 4pm (Proof of Vaccine & Masks Required, observing pandemic precautions) Kentler International Drawing Space is pleased to present State of Emergency: Portraits from the Pandemic, a solo exhibition of new work on paper by Brooklyn-based artist Robert Aitchison. This body of work explores complex notions of presence, engagement and isolation in the era of Covid. Beginning in March 2020, Aitchison utilized video chat platforms to make hundreds of sketches of close friends. The resulting portrait series is at once vibrant and introspective. His subjects are jarringly foregrounded and many present with duplicate or askew facial features. These distortions mirror the glitchy, interrupted and delayed experienc...
Read more