Richard Shaw
Public Lecture
Danforth Hall
Mills College, Oakland
11-7 @ 7:30 PM
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Richard Shaw Lecture 11-7 @ 7:30 pm
Richard Shaw
Public Lecture
Danforth Hall
Mills College, Oakland
11-7 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, October 12, 2007
Laleh Khorramian lecture for download
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An insightful glimpse into Laleh's process and an exciting preview of her most recent film "inamorare".
An insightful glimpse into Laleh's process and an exciting preview of her most recent film "inamorare".
Carrie Moyer Lecture this Thursday 10/17 @ 7:30
Lecture by artist Carrie Moyer
Wednesday, October 17, 7:30pm, Danforth Lecture Hall
New York-based Carrie Moyer balances specific Feminist and other art historical references in her paintings with a seemingly effortless painting style. References to the history of abstract painting are evident, even as she seems to re-claim that history for her own end. Her process combines paint applied with a brush, with large areas of translucent poured pigment. In some paintings she mixes glitter with the pigment—risky business for most artists but Moyer makes it a seamless part of her seductive surfaces. In a review in Artforum of her most recent exhibition, Julia Bryan-Wilson wrote of Moyer’s paintings, “With their emphatic vision of how a politics of contemporary abstraction might operate, these are invigorating, even thrilling works from an artist increasingly confident in the range of her powers.”
Moyer recently contributed an article to U.K.-based Modern Painters entitled “Feminist Art: VIVA,” which addressed the recent series of exhibitions dedicated to Feminist Art in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. For her presentation at the Mills College Art Museum, Moyer will discuss her own work and also the context in which artists work today touching on the relevance of these recent exhibitions.
Moyer’s (Lives and works in New York, NY) is a mixed media painter, whose work has been shown in solo exhibitions, such as The Stone Age, CANADA, New York, NY (2007), Carrie Moyer and Diana Puntar, Samson Projects, Boston, MA (2006), Sister Register, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX (2004), Straight to Hell: 10 Years of Dyke Action Machine!, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2002), along with group exhibitions, Late Liberties, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY (2007), When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, NY (2006), BAM Next Wave Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY (2005), About Painting, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Unjustified, Apexart, New York, NY (2002), and Raw Womyn, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2002).
Moyer earned her MFA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY in 2001 and MA from the New York Institute of Technology, New York, NY in 1990. She has received the Alijira Emerge Professional Development Fellowship, Art Matters Fellowship, Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship, Rockefeller New Media Fellowship, and Wattis Artist Residency. She is represented by CANADA, New York, NY. Her work is currently on-view in the group exhibition, Don’t Let the Boys Win, at the Mills College Art Museum through December 9, 2007.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
For more information: 510.430.2164 or www.mills.edu/museum
Friday, September 28, 2007
KINKE KOOI Lecture for your viewing pleasure
If you were unable to make the lecture please treat yourself to the wonderful musings of Kinke Kooi.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Kinke Kooi Lecture Wednesday 9/19 7:30 PM
KINKE KOOI SELECTED BIOGRAPHY
Born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, in 1961
Lives in Arnhem, Netherlands
Education
1980–85 Academy for the Visual Arts, Arnhem
One-Person Exhibitions
2006 Feature Inc., New York
“Women Love Small Things,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
2004 “Pink Web,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
2002 Feature Inc., New York
“De Ruimte tussen alle Dingen,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 “Don’t Let the Boys Win,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; curated by Jessica Hough
2006 “Domino,” Air de Paris, Paris
“Twice Drawn” (Part 1), Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
“Quantum Vis II,” RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden, Netherlands
“Anti-makassar,” De Gele Rijder, Arnhem
2005 “The sun rises in the evening.,” Feature Inc., New York
“Drops in the Ocean: Contemporary Images from the Subliminal,” Met Wilde Weten, Project Space, Rotterdam
“Black and White and a Little Bit of Color,” Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
“Malpractice,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
2004 “Wim Izaks Prijs: Aaron Van Erp, Iris Kensmil, Kinke Kooi,” Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands (catalogue)
“Grey Goo,” Flaca Gallery, London
“Floor of Heaven,” Artis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
2002 “The Space between All Things,” Galerie De Praktijk, Amsterdam
“GtT2,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2001 “de Appel van Eva,” Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
“Border Stories: IX International Biennial of Photography,” Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia,Torino, Italy; curated by Denis Curti (catalogue)
“Not a. Lear,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston; curated by ANP
2000 “Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; curated by Christian Eckart, Harry Philbrook, and Osvaldo Romberg (catalogue)
“Not a. Lear,” Torch, Amsterdam; Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium; Art Process, Paris; curated by ANP
“Grok Terence McKenna Dead,” Feature Inc., New York
“Oogdwalen,” Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands
“Sans Papier,” Consortium, Amsterdam
“City Projects,” Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium
Born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, in 1961
Lives in Arnhem, Netherlands
Education
1980–85 Academy for the Visual Arts, Arnhem
One-Person Exhibitions
2006 Feature Inc., New York
“Women Love Small Things,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
2004 “Pink Web,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
2002 Feature Inc., New York
“De Ruimte tussen alle Dingen,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 “Don’t Let the Boys Win,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; curated by Jessica Hough
2006 “Domino,” Air de Paris, Paris
“Twice Drawn” (Part 1), Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
“Quantum Vis II,” RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden, Netherlands
“Anti-makassar,” De Gele Rijder, Arnhem
2005 “The sun rises in the evening.,” Feature Inc., New York
“Drops in the Ocean: Contemporary Images from the Subliminal,” Met Wilde Weten, Project Space, Rotterdam
“Black and White and a Little Bit of Color,” Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
“Malpractice,” De Praktijk, Amsterdam
2004 “Wim Izaks Prijs: Aaron Van Erp, Iris Kensmil, Kinke Kooi,” Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Netherlands (catalogue)
“Grey Goo,” Flaca Gallery, London
“Floor of Heaven,” Artis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
2002 “The Space between All Things,” Galerie De Praktijk, Amsterdam
“GtT2,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2001 “de Appel van Eva,” Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
“Border Stories: IX International Biennial of Photography,” Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia,Torino, Italy; curated by Denis Curti (catalogue)
“Not a. Lear,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston; curated by ANP
2000 “Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; curated by Christian Eckart, Harry Philbrook, and Osvaldo Romberg (catalogue)
“Not a. Lear,” Torch, Amsterdam; Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium; Art Process, Paris; curated by ANP
“Grok Terence McKenna Dead,” Feature Inc., New York
“Oogdwalen,” Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands
“Sans Papier,” Consortium, Amsterdam
“City Projects,” Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Don't Let the Boys Win opens Sept. 19 at Mills Art Museum
September 19 - December 9, 2007
Don't Let the Boys Win
Kinke Kooi, Carrie Moyer, and Lara Schnitger
Wednesday, September 19:
Opening Reception: 5:30-7:30 pm, Art Museum
Artist's Lecture by Kinke Kooi: 7:30-8:30 pm, Danforth Hall, Art Building
Curated by Jessica Hough, director, Mills College Art Museum
The Mills College Art Museum presents Don't Let the Boys Win, featuring the dynamic work by nationally and internationally recognized artists Kinke Kooi, Carrie Moyer, and Lara Schnitger.
Don't Let the Boys Win is curated by Jessica Hough. This is Hough's first exhibition in her new position as director of the Mills College Art Museum. She was previously curatorial director at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum where she worked for over nine years.
Each of the artists in Don't Let the Boys Win, through different means, produces work that is imbued with an empowered female perspective. Boldness and humor characterize the work and many of the pieces are unapologetically erotic. Ornament and texture is integral to each of the artists' practices, and a hippie-inspired aesthetic is also at work. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from a sculpture of the same name by Schnitger, highlights the provocative playfulness of the work in this exhibition.
In her drawings on paper and on photographs, artist Kinke Kooi, based in Arnhem, Netherlands, imbues such things as human eyes, a hand, or an ordinary apartment building with a talisman-like quality. Kooi fills the space around the objects in her compositions with a dense swirling line pattern that gives the air a pillow-like effect. It is as if each object is cushioned by its surrounding, and at the same time is setting into motion the atmosphere around it.
Baba Jaga, 2007, Acrylic paint on photograph, 26 x 20 inches, Courtesy Feature Inc., New York
New York-based Carrie Moyer balances specific Feminist and other art historical references in her paintings with a seemingly effortless painting style. References to the history of abstract painting are evident, even as she seems to re-claim that history for her own end. Her process combines paint applied with a brush, with large areas of translucent poured pigment. In some paintings she mixes glitter with the pigment-risky business for most artists but Moyer makes it a seamless part of her seductive surfaces.
The Stone Age, 2006, Acrylic, glitter on canvas, 60 x 84 inches, Collection of Stephen Hilton, New York
Los Angeles-based Lara Schnitger's sculptures have an animated physical presence that makes it seem as if they might begin to move around the gallery. Each work is composed of a sewn fabric "skin" stretched over a wooden armature. The wooden structures are made from a series of joined long, narrow pieces, which point out into space and threaten to puncture the fabric into which they push. The literal tension on the fabric adds to the already emotional quality of the works.
The Only Bush I Trust is My Own, 100 x 92 x 72 inches, Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Don't Let the Boys Win
Kinke Kooi, Carrie Moyer, and Lara Schnitger
Wednesday, September 19:
Opening Reception: 5:30-7:30 pm, Art Museum
Artist's Lecture by Kinke Kooi: 7:30-8:30 pm, Danforth Hall, Art Building
Curated by Jessica Hough, director, Mills College Art Museum
The Mills College Art Museum presents Don't Let the Boys Win, featuring the dynamic work by nationally and internationally recognized artists Kinke Kooi, Carrie Moyer, and Lara Schnitger.
Don't Let the Boys Win is curated by Jessica Hough. This is Hough's first exhibition in her new position as director of the Mills College Art Museum. She was previously curatorial director at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum where she worked for over nine years.
Each of the artists in Don't Let the Boys Win, through different means, produces work that is imbued with an empowered female perspective. Boldness and humor characterize the work and many of the pieces are unapologetically erotic. Ornament and texture is integral to each of the artists' practices, and a hippie-inspired aesthetic is also at work. The title of the exhibition, borrowed from a sculpture of the same name by Schnitger, highlights the provocative playfulness of the work in this exhibition.
In her drawings on paper and on photographs, artist Kinke Kooi, based in Arnhem, Netherlands, imbues such things as human eyes, a hand, or an ordinary apartment building with a talisman-like quality. Kooi fills the space around the objects in her compositions with a dense swirling line pattern that gives the air a pillow-like effect. It is as if each object is cushioned by its surrounding, and at the same time is setting into motion the atmosphere around it.
Baba Jaga, 2007, Acrylic paint on photograph, 26 x 20 inches, Courtesy Feature Inc., New York
New York-based Carrie Moyer balances specific Feminist and other art historical references in her paintings with a seemingly effortless painting style. References to the history of abstract painting are evident, even as she seems to re-claim that history for her own end. Her process combines paint applied with a brush, with large areas of translucent poured pigment. In some paintings she mixes glitter with the pigment-risky business for most artists but Moyer makes it a seamless part of her seductive surfaces.
The Stone Age, 2006, Acrylic, glitter on canvas, 60 x 84 inches, Collection of Stephen Hilton, New York
Los Angeles-based Lara Schnitger's sculptures have an animated physical presence that makes it seem as if they might begin to move around the gallery. Each work is composed of a sewn fabric "skin" stretched over a wooden armature. The wooden structures are made from a series of joined long, narrow pieces, which point out into space and threaten to puncture the fabric into which they push. The literal tension on the fabric adds to the already emotional quality of the works.
The Only Bush I Trust is My Own, 100 x 92 x 72 inches, Courtesy Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Lecture Series Schedule Announced for Fall 2007!
Kinke Kooi Lecture
scheduled September 19, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Laleh Khorramian lecture 3:30
scheduled September 23, 2007 from 3:30 PM to ?
Carrie Moyer Lecture
scheduled October 17, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Hank Willis Thomas Lecture 7:30pm
scheduled October 24, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Richard Shaw Lecture
scheduled November 7, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Deborah Oropallo Lecture
scheduled November 14, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
scheduled September 19, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Laleh Khorramian lecture 3:30
scheduled September 23, 2007 from 3:30 PM to ?
Carrie Moyer Lecture
scheduled October 17, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Hank Willis Thomas Lecture 7:30pm
scheduled October 24, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Richard Shaw Lecture
scheduled November 7, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Deborah Oropallo Lecture
scheduled November 14, 2007 from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
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Welcome to the blog for the Mills MFA lecture series. Here you will find information about the artists in our series as well as unique content to support your experience and knowledge of the Lecture Series and the school's MFA program.
The MFA Lecture Series is made possible by the incredible support of the Herringer Family Foundation without whom we would just be talking to ourselves and not with a world of artists from around the globe.
We hope you will enjoy the lectures we've lined up.
Many thanks!
Michael Hall
Welcome to the blog for the Mills MFA lecture series. Here you will find information about the artists in our series as well as unique content to support your experience and knowledge of the Lecture Series and the school's MFA program.
The MFA Lecture Series is made possible by the incredible support of the Herringer Family Foundation without whom we would just be talking to ourselves and not with a world of artists from around the globe.
We hope you will enjoy the lectures we've lined up.
Many thanks!
Michael Hall
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