We got a fantastic group of artists coming this year to Mills College Art Lecture Series:
Bonnie Sherk
September 23rd, 2015
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Sherk
is an American landscape architect, planner, educator, artist and founder
of “The Farm” and “A Living Library.” Her work examines the interrelationship of plants, animals, and humans
with the goal of creating sustainable systems for social transformation.
Her Sitting Still series, 1970, is featured in Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s—Now at the Mills College Art Museum. For more
information visit mcam.mills.edu. Supported by the Phyllis C.
Wattis Foundation
Public
Works Performance & Panel
October 4th, 2015
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND
TECHNOLOGY AS PUBLIC SPACE
Danforth Lecture Hall, 3:00 p.m.
This
panel will feature a live Skype performance by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, a special multiple produced by Leah Rosenberg
and a panel discussion featuring artists in in the exhibition Public
Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s— Now, including Stephanie
Syjuco and Favianna Rodriguez, among others.
For more information, visit mcam.mills.edu. Supported
by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
Nandipha
Mntambo
October 7th,
2015
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Born in 1982, Mntambo
graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art,
University of Cape Town, in 2007. She won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award
for Visual Art in 2011, for which she produced the national travelling
exhibition Faena. Mntambo has had five solo shows at Stevenson in Cape Town and
Johannesburg and two at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm. In her work, Mntambo makes cascading sculptures that are molded from
cowhide and suggest the human figure. These three-dimensional works,
along with her photographs, videos, and performances, explore the similarities
and differences between humans and animals, men and women, and attraction and repulsion. Sponsored by Herringer Graduate Lecture Series
Mildred
Howard
October 14th,
2015
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Born in San Francisco in
1945, Howard is an artist known primarily for her sculptural installation and mixed-media assemblages. Howard began her career
as a dancer prior to working in visual art. Howard is represented by Gallery
Paule Anglim in San Francisco and has been shown at galleries in Boston, LA,
New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Cairo and Venice and at the Oakland Museum,
the de Young, SFMOMA, the San Jose Museum of Art and the Museum of the African
Diaspora. Howard has been the recipient of two Rockefeller Foundation Awards,
the Joan Mitchell Award and an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture. Howard has taught
at Stanford and Brown Universities, SFAI and
CCA.Sponsored by Herringer Graduate
Lecture Series
Artistic Credibility in a
Global Context: a conversation with Sarah Thornton and Larry Rinder
October 28th,
2015
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Thornton is a writer and
sociologist of culture. She is the author of Seven Days in the Art World (2008),
an international best seller, available in 20 languages, and 33 Artists in 3
Acts, which goes behind the scenes with a superb cast of living artists – from
global superstars to unheralded teachers –
to investigate how artists play their game, maintain self-belief and
command credibility. Thornton has been the chief correspondent on contemporary
art for The Economist and has written for many other publications. A regular
contributor to radio and TV broadcasts, Thornton has a BA in Art History and a
PhD in the Sociology of Culture. A longtime resident of London, Thornton has
recently moved to San Francisco.
Rinder
is director of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and
Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). He has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney
Museum of American Art, where he was chief curator of the 2002 Biennial.
He was the founding director of the Wattis
Institute for Contemporary Arts at California College of the Arts, San
Francisco, where he also served as dean. His writing has appeared in
nest, Artforum, The Village Voice, Fillip, Atlantica, and Flash Art, among
other publications. Sponsored by Corenah Wright
Lecture Series/Art Dept.
Christian
L. Frock and
Tanya Zimbardo
November 4th, 2015
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Frock
and Zimbardo are the co-curators of Public
Works: Artists’ Interventions
1970s—Now at the Mills College Art Museum.
Frock is
an independent writer,
curator and educator whose work focuses on art and politics, the role of
artists in public life and social justice. Invisible Venue, the
alternative curatorial enterprise Frock founded and has directed since 2005,
collaborates with artists to present art in public spaces, online and in the built environment. Zimbardo is
the assistant curator of media arts at the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art. Among other exhibitions, she
co-curated public commissions for the off-site exhibition 2012
SECA Art Award and has organized numerous
screenings of film, video and
performance-based work at the museum and other venues. For more information
visit mcam.mills.edu. Supported by the Phyllis C.
Wattis Foundation
Jonathan
D. Katz
November
11th, 2015
HOW AIDS CHANGED AMERICAN ART
Lisser Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Katz, the 2015 Jane Green
Endowment for Studies in Art History and Criticism
speaker, is the Director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program at the
University of Buffalo (SUNY). He was the co-curator of the 2010 exhibition, Hide/Seek:
Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, and
is co-curating Art AIDS
America, which previewed in Los Angeles
in June and will be shown in Tacoma, Atlanta and
New York in its entirety starting in October. Sponsored
by Jane Green
Yasufumi
Nakamori
February 3rd,
2016
FOR A NEW WORLD TO COME: EXPERIMENTS IN
JAPANESE ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY, 1968–1979
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
In this lecture Nakamori
will shed light on the development of photo conceptualism found in Japan in the
1970s. Nakamori argues that, after the 1960s, when the force of avant-garde art
and the tension in politics peaked, many artists devoted themselves to
experiments with the camera, individually searching for new and vital
directions in their practice, exploring such emerging notions as conceptualism, post-minimalism, and international
contemporaneity. He will make a case for the emergence of a shared field of
practice between art and photography, and for the critical role that
photography played in the emergence and development of contemporary art in the
1970s Japan. Nakamori is an associate curator of photography at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, where he focuses on art and photography made after 1945. He also teaches the history of modern and
contemporary Japanese art and architecture at Rice University. He has authored
a dozen scholarly essays, and the book
titled Katsura:
Picturing Modernism in Japanese Architecture. Sponsored
by Corenah Wright Lecture Series/Art Dept.
Nicholas
de Monchaux
February 17th, 2016
Local Code: 3,659 Reflections on
Gordon
Matta-Clark and the Nature of Cities
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
De Monchaux is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an
architectural and urban history of the Apollo Spacesuit. He was also awarded
the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical
Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize. His work has been exhibited at the 2010 Biennial of the
Americas, the 2012 Venice Architecture
Biennale and San Francisco’s SFMOMA. De Monchaux received his B.A. with
distinction in Architecture from Yale, and his M.Arch. from Princeton. Prior to his independent practice, he worked in the offices of Michael Hopkins & Partners in
London, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
in New York. Sponsored
by Corenah Wright Lecture Series/Art Dept.
William
Lamson
March 2nd, 2016
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Lamson was born in 1977 in
Arlington, Virginia. His video works often find
him playfully and strenuously interacting with his environment, both in
the natural world and in his studio.
Lamson’s work is included in the
permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the
Progressive Art Collection, among others. His work has been exhibited in the
U.S. and internationally, including at P.S. 1 in New York and at
Franklin Art Works in Minneapolis. Lamson received his BA from Dartmouth
College in 2000 and his MFA from Bard College in 2006. He was a MacDowell
Foundation fellow and received a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 2014. Sponsored by
Herringer Graduate Lecture Series
Steve
Roden
April 20th, 2016
Danforth Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Roden
is an American sound and visual artist who pioneered the lowercase
style of music where quiet, usually unheard, sounds are amplified to form complex and rich soundscapes. Roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since the
mid 1980s and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally,
including: Mercosur Biennial Porto
Alegre Brazil, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, UCLA Hammer
Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art
EMST in Athens, Greece, Singuhr-Horgalerie in Parochial Berlin, Center for Book Arts, New York, The Kitchen, New York,
Pomona College Museum of Art, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Susanne Vielmetter LA and Berlin Projects, Studio la Citta
Verona Italy and others. In 2010, curator Howard Fox organized the
exhibition steve roden / in between: a 20
year survey, which opened at the Armory Center
for the Arts in Pasadena. Sponsored by Herringer Graduate
Lecture Series
