Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Greil Marcus - Jay DeFeo and All That Jazz - video now online!
Greil Marcus Talk - Jay DeFeo and All That Jazz - November 5th, 2012 from Mills Art on Vimeo.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
November 14 - Melissa E. Feldman, 7 PM, Danforth Lecture Hall
Melissa E. Feldman is an independent curator and critic who writes regularly for Art in America and frieze. Feldman is the guest curator of the exhibition Dance Rehearsal: Karen Klimnik's World of Ballet and Theater at the Mills College Art Museum. Recent projects include the traveling exhibition Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, The Life and Times of Sarah McEneaney at Mills College Art Museum, and Sampler: Textiles at Creative Growth at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland.
Dance Rehearsal: Karen Klimnik's World of Ballet and Theater is up at the Mills College Art Museum until December 9th, so please come and see the exhibition.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Greil Marcus - November 5th, 7 PM, Lisser Theatre
Jay Defeo and All That Jazz
Noted author and cultural critic Greil Marcus will discuss the work of Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989). DeFeo was part of a vibrant community of avant-garde artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s, and was a faculty member at Mills College in the 1980s. Although best known for her monumental painting The Rose, DeFeo worked in a wide range of media and produced an astoundingly diverse and compelling body of work over four decades. Her unconventional approach to materials and her intensive, physical method make her a unique figure in postwar American art.Greil Marcus is a contributor to the exhibition catalogue accompanyingJay DeFeo: A Retrospective, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from November 3, 2012 to February 3, 2013. He is the author ofLipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, The Dustbin of History, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n Roll Music, The Manchurian Candidate: BFI Film Classics, The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, and most recently, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years. With Werner Sollors, Marcus is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published by Harvard in 2009. He lives in Oakland, CA.
Presented by the Jane Green Endowment for Studies in Art History and Criticism.
Michael Robinson - October 30th, 7 PM, Danforth Hall
Tuesday, October 30th, 7 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall
Mills College
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Michael Robinson is a film and video artist whose work explores the joys and the dangers of mediated experience. Cultivating new resonances between seemingly disparate elements, his collaged films ride the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria. He was listed as one of the top ten avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000's by Film Comment magazine and featured as one of the “Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50” by Cinema Scope magazine.
Interested in seeing Mr. Robinson's work? Check out his wonderful website:
http://poisonberries.net/
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
John Chiara - October 10th, 7 PM, Danforth Hall
Interested in learning more about upcoming speaker John Chiara? Check out his page at the Haines Gallery website:
http://www.hainesgallery.com/artists/Chiara_John/Chiara_01.html
As well as this great documentary on his process produced by KQED in 2006.
www.lightdark.com
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Abelardo Morell - September 19th, 7 PM, Danforth Hall
www.abelardomorell.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qyJ01H4Y-4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzbYrrHHeMI
Join the event on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/350331738387959/
Monday, September 10, 2012
September 13th - Desirée Holman, 7 PM, Lisser Theatre
Desirée Holman is an Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist. Holman manipulates figurative props and costumes in role-playing scenarios to ask what games of make-believe can tell us about our behaviors in the ‘real’ world. Holman was awarded the 2008 San Francisco Modern Museum of Art SECA award and a 2007 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue award. In 2011, her second solo museum exhibition opened in the Berkeley Art Museum’s MATRIX program.
http://www.desireeholman.com/
http://www.inthemake.net/Desiree-Holman
Lectures are always free and open to the public. Parking is free at Mills and refreshments will be served afterwards. For directions please visit http://www.mills.edu/directions/
Monday, September 3, 2012
Lecture Series 2012-2013 Announced
The time has finally arrived for the Mills College Art Lecture Series, 2012-2013!
If you are a part of our mailing list, you own copy of our poster will be arriving in the mail soon.
But for the rest of us, here are samples of the poster and the details for our upcoming lectures.
September 13 Desirée Holman
Lisser Theater Desirée Holman is an Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist. Holman manipulates figurative props and costumes in role-playing scenarios to ask what games of make-believe can tell us about our behaviors in the ‘real’ world. Holman was awarded the 2008 San Francisco Modern Museum of Art SECA award and a 2007 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue award. In 2011, her second solo museum exhibition opened in the Berkeley Art Museum’s MATRIX program.
September 19 Abelardo Morell
Danforth Lecture Hall
Best known for installing and photographing camera obscuras, Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 14. He has received a number of awards and grants, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994. Among his many books are a photographic illustration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and a collaboration with the designer Ted Muehling and neurologist Oliver Sacks. A retrospective of his work organized jointly by the Art Institute of Chicago, The Getty, and The High Museum in Atlanta will be on view starting in the summer of 2013.
October 10 John Chiara
Danforth Lecture Hall
Chiara photographs cityscapes in a process that is part photography, part event and part sculpture – an undertaking in apparatus and patience. Many times this process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera mounted on a flatbed trailer to produce large scale, one-of-a-kind, positive exposures. A native Californian who lives and works in San Francisco, Chiara has produced work focused on Bay Area landmarks, including Lands End, Lime Point, and Point Bonita.
October 30 Michael Robinson
Danforth Lecture Hall
Michael Robinson is a film and video artist whose work explores the joys and the dangers of mediated experience. Cultivating new resonances between seemingly disparate elements, his collaged films ride the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria. He was listed as one of the top ten avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000's by Film Comment magazine and featured as one of the “Best 50 Filmmakers Under 50” by Cinema Scope magazine.
November 5 Greil Marcus
Jay DeFeo and all that Jazz
Lisser Theatre
Greil Marcus is the author of Lipstick Traces, The Dustbin of History, Mystery Train, ‘The Manchurian Candidate’, The Old, Weird America, and most recently The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published by Harvard University Press in 2009. He lives in Oakland.
November 14 Melissa E. Feldman
Danforth Lecture Hall
Melissa E. Feldman is an independent curator and critic who writes regularly for Art in America and frieze. Feldman is the guest curator of the exhibition Dance Rehearsal: Karen Klimnik's World of Ballet and Theater at the Mills College Art Museum. Recent projects include the traveling exhibition Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, The Life and Times of Sarah McEneaney at Mills College Art Museum, and Sampler: Textiles at Creative Growth at Creative Growth Art Center in Oakland.
February 6 Gay Outlaw
Danforth Lecture Hall
Gay Outlaw draws upon materials that range from industrial to domestic and familiar to make work with a strong sense of pattern and play. Her experience as pastry chef and photographer inform her sculpture, including a 34-foot wall of fruitcakes installed in Yerba Buena gardens. A recipient of the SECA award in 1999, Outlaw has had recent solo exhibitions at the Sacramento Center for Contemporary Art, Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco, and Napa's di Rosa Preserve.
February 20 Julio Cesar Morales
Danforth Lecture Hall
Julio Cesar Morales is an artist, educator, and curator. He utilizes a range of media including photography, video, and printed and digital media to make conceptual projects that address the productive friction that occurs in trans-cultural territories. Morales' work consistently explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies and identity strategies. He teaches and creates art in a variety of settings, from juvenile halls and probation offices to museums, art colleges, and alternative non-profit institutions.
March 6 Jennie Ottinger
Danforth Lecture Hall
Jennie Ottinger is a painter who was raised in Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco, CA. Ottinger earned her BFA from California College of the Arts and her MFA from Mills College. She recently had a solo exhibition at Johansson Projects entitled What To Do With Your Orphan: A Manual and has had work at the NADA Art Fair in Miami, Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, Adobe Books and Volta NY Art Fair, as well as galleries in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Lectures made possible with generous support from the Herringer Family Foundation, Jane Green Endowment for Studies in Art History and Criticism, and the LEF Foundation.
All lectures are free and open to the public.
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