Mills College Art Lecture Archive (Jan - Aug 2010)

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Mills Art Lecture Series 2010-2011

Binh Danh; September 8, 2010, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Misha Glouberman; September 29, 2010, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Tom Marioni; October 6, 2010, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Kathryn Spence; October 13, 2010, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Jim Campbell; October 27, 2010, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Paul Koss; November 17, 2010, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Laerke Laurta; January 19, 2011, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Marie Watt; February 23, 2011, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
Bill Brown; March 16, 2011, 7:00 pm, Danforth Lecture Hall

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Between You and ME, Mills College MFA Thesis Exhibition 2010

BETWEEN YOU AND ME

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 6-9 pm

Exhibition Dates: Sunday, May 2 to Sunday, May 30, 2010

The Mills College Art Museum is proud to present Between You and Me, the thesis exhibition for the 2010 Master of Fine Arts degree recipients. The exhibition showcases works by a promising group of emerging artists created during their graduate program in the Mills College MFA studio program. The exhibition is curated by Stephanie Hanor, Director of the Mills College Art Museum.

Between You and Me features work by Nic Buron, Joey Castor, Chris Fraser, Dana Hemenway, Kija Lucas, Bobby Lukas, Monica Lundy, Kate Stirr, Adam Vermeire and Doug G. Williams.

Driven by the desire to cultivate a sense of wonder, Kate Stirr creates otherworldly creatures, portrayed through drawings, video, and as sculpture, which explore the mysterious place between nature and artifice. Chris Fraser creates situations that address the links between light, pictures and experience. His installations isolate and idealize everyday occurrences: an open door, a curtain, the way the sunlight projects through the branches of a tree.

Nic Buron uses photography to examine the complexities of "place" and "placelessness,” focusing on Treasure Island, a location with a long history of transformation. Alternately, Bobby Lukas' sculptural work provides an avenue for voluntary simplicity and quiet romance, creating a contrast to the excesses of everyday
life.

Dana Hemenway is interested in how we understand and frame objects and experiences. She is fascinated with forms of aesthetic display. The resulting work ranges from video to sculpture to site-specific installation.

Kija Lucas uses the home environment as a setting to investigate the personal fairytale, stories that we tell in order to explain who we are. Her large-scale photographs are recreations of seemingly inconsequential moments that have changed the course of a
single lifetime or impacted several generations. With a similar interest in autobiography, Adam Vermeire explores how race continues to impact his life, searching for answers that cannot be found.

Joey Castor addresses various aspects of physical labor, focusing on how the repetitive, meditative and physical motions affect the body and mind. Monica Lundy's investigations of historical California criminals manifest in a series of paintings and sculpture that explore identity perception in relation to systems of social classification.

Doug G. Williams investigates the psychology of perception and persuasion in videos and interactive installations that are at once uncanny, humorous, and intimate.

The Mills College Art Museum, founded in 1925, is a dynamic center for art that focuses on the creative work of women as artists and curators. The Museum strives to engage and inspire the diverse and distinctive cultures of the Bay Area by presenting innovative exhibitions by emerging and established national and international artists. Exhibitions are designed to challenge and invite reflection upon the profound complexities of contemporary culture.

Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA 94613

510.430.2164

http://www.mills.edu/museum

Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-4:00pm
Wednesday 11:00-7:30pm
Closed Mondays

Admission is free for all exhibitions and programs.

MILLS COLLEGE ART MUSEUM
DATE: March 31, 2010

PRESS CONTACTS:
Lori Chinn, Program Manager, lchinn@mills.edu
Chris Fraser, Press Contact, cfraser@mills.edu
Abby Lebbert, Publicity Assistant, alebbert@mills.edu

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Vito Acconci 3/31

VITO ACCONCI, Words/ Action/ Architecture

Presented by the Technology and Society Lecture Series at Mills College
Wednesday March 31, 2010 at 7:30 pm, Littlefield Concert Hall, Music Building

Please join Mills in welcoming artist Vito Acconci Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 7:30pm in the Littlefield Concert Hall, (located in the Music Building) at Mills College.

Vito Acconci’s design and architecture stems from his work as a writer and visual artist. His performances in the 70’s helped shift art from object to interactions between the artist and viewer. His installations treated visitors to the gallery/museum not as viewers but as inhabitants of and participants in a public space. By the late 80’s his work had crossed over, and he formed Acconci Studio. The operations of Acconci Studio emerged from computer-thinking, and mathematical and biological models in which they treated architecture as occasions for activity and made spaces fluid, changeable, and portable. They have recently completed an artificial island in Graz, a clothing store in Tokyo, and an elevated subway-station in Coney Island. Currently, Acconci Studio is building a perimeter in Toronto and a street that runs through a building in Indianapolis. They are also working on a three-story building in Milan, a bridge-system and park near Delft, and an amphitheatre in Stavanger.

This event is free and open to the public

Monday, March 8, 2010

Lisa Anne Auerbach 3/17

Lisa Anne Auerbach
March 17, 2010, 7:30pm

Lisa Anne Auerbach runs a modest publishing and propaganda empire out of a
former stuccolow in south Los Angeles. When she's not on her bike, she's
knitting inflammatory, slogan-adorned sweaters and banners, making
photographs of overlooked landmarks, and putting small publications out into
the big world. She received her Mfa from Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena, California and her BFA from Photography Rochester Institute of
Technology in Rochester, New York. She is the recipient of a 2007 California
Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists and is represented by
Gavlak, West Palm Beach, Florida.

Lecture made possible by the Herringer Family Foundation

Friday, March 5, 2010

VITO ACCONCI, Words/ Action/ Architecture 3/31

Presented by the Technology and Society Lecture Series at Mills College
Wednesday March 31st 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Lisser Theatre, Mills College 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613
This event is free and open to the public

The Technology and Society Lecture Series at Mills College is pleased to be hosting Vito Acconci who will be presenting his lecture titled, “Words/ Action/ Architecture” on Wednesday March 31st 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lisser Theatre.

Vito Acconci’s design and architecture comes from another direction: a background first in writing and then in art. His performances in the 70’s helped shift art from object to interactions between artist and viewer; his installations treated visitors to the gallery/museum not as viewers but as inhabitants of and participants in a public space. By the late 80’s his work had crossed over, and he formed Acconci Studio; their operations come from computer-thinking, and mathematical and biological models -- they treat architecture as occasions for activity -- they make spaces fluid, changeable, portable. They have recently completed an artificial island in Graz, a clothing store in Tokyo, an elevated subway-station in Coney Island. About to be built is a building perimeter in Toronto and a street through a building in Indianapolis. They are currently working on a three-story building in Milan, a bridge-system and park near Delft, and an amphitheatre in Stavanger.

Please join us for the lecture at the Lisser Theatre located at Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94613. Mills is located immediately off of Highway 580 in Oakland at the junction of 580 (MacArthur Freeway) and Highway 13 (Warren Freeway), approximately seven miles from the Bay Bridge.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Anthony Discenza Lecture 3/03

Anthony Discenza

3/03/10 - 7:30 PM

Danforth Lecture Hall

Anthony Discenza has a graduate degree in Film and Video from California College of Art and an undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Wesleyan University. His work is directed by a preoccupation with interrupting the flow of information in various formats, primarily in video, but also other media such as computer generated sound, text, and imagery. Discenza’s video works have been screened widely nationally and internationally, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Australian Center for the Moving Image, the Whitney Museum of American Art—and most recently at the Getty Center and the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. His work has garnered critical attention in Artforum, Artweek, and ArtReview, among other publications.He lives and works in Oakland, California.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Phil Ross February 19th

Phil Ross
February 19, 2010, 7:30pm

Phil Ross received his MFA from Stanford and his BFA from SFAI and is
currently a Professor of Sculpture at the University of San Francisco. His
creative work resides in the space between art, technology, education, and
the history and philosophies of science. Ross has grown and designed
biotechnological structures that are at once highly crafted and naturally
formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Robert Irwin 2/11 7:30 pm

Robert Irwin February 11, 2010, 7:30 pm Littlefield Concert Hall

Robert Irwin has been one of the pivotal artists in American Art for more than 46 years both as a practitioner, a theoretician, and a teacher. Irwin began his career as an abstract expressionist; however, by the late 1960s he had moved away from painting to become one of the creators of the art of light and space, using ephemeral materials such as scrim, lighting and orientation to alter and heighten the viewers' perception of the space in which they encountered his work. Since the early 1980s Irwin has won an international reputation for his "site-generated" works in public spaces, which often make intimate use of site conditions, architecture, natural elements, plantings and topographic features.

Irwin received his art education at Otis Art Institute, Jepsons Art Institute and Chouinards Art Institute (1948-1954). Later, Irwin taught at Chouinards (1957-58), University of California, Los Angeles (1962), and in 1968-69, he developed the graduate program at the University of California, Irvine, working with a number of now successful artists such as Ed Ruscha, Larry Bell, Vija Celmins, Alexis Smith and Chris Burden among others.

Lecture presented by the Correnah W. Wright Endowed Fund

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Trisha Brown Artist Lecture 1/27 5:30 PM

Trisha Brown January 27, 2010, 5:30 PM  Trisha Brown is widely considered to be the most

important choreographer to emerge from the postmodern era. Since graduating from Mills 

College in 1958 with a degree in dance, Brown has become widely acclaimed for her 

maverick spirit and ability to push the human body to perform in unexpected ways. 

Unafraid to challenge new genres, she has choreographed opera, jazz, classical music, and 

ballet over the course of her storied career. Founding her own company in 1970, Brown 

explored the terrain of her adoptive SoHo, creating her early dances for alternative spaces 

including roof tops and walls, and flirting with gravity--alternately using it and defying it. 

Recognized as a visual artist as well as a dancer, Brown was invited to participate in 

Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, garnering much critical acclaim.* 

Presented in conjunction with the traveling exhibition, T*risha Brown: So That the Audience 

Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing*, organized by the Walker Art Center, 

which will be on view at the Mills College Art Museum from January 20-March 14, 2010.