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
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.
*Patty Chang* November 18, 7:30pm* *Patty Chang received her BA from University of California, San Diego, she currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally at such institutions as the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA; Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece; the Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporian Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland; the Hamburg Kunstverein in Germany and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.
We are very excited to present Uta Barth as part of our Artist Lecture Series.
October 21, 7:30pm*
*German-born, American-based artist Utha Barth is among the key recent figures who have brought photography to the prominent position once occupied by painting. Her photographs of interior and exterior, urban and natural environments capture fleeting moments as if glimpsed out of the corner of one's eye, where we become aware of the beauty of everyday light, space, texture and luminous surfaces. Barth's work has been exhibited at museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2004-05.*
*All programs will take place in Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building unless noted.*
Last week we had artist Pae White fill the Danforth Lecture Hall for a great lecture.
Pae was speaking as part of the Mills Artist Lecture Series.
Here's some info about Pae White and the lecture.
*Pae White September 30, 7:30pm Presented in conjunction with *Pae White: In Between the Inside-Out* on view at the Mills College Art Museum from September 2-October 18, 2009. This exhibition has been co-produced by New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Major support for the production of Pae White's show has been received from the LEF Foundation, the FOR-SITE Foundation and a San Francisco Arts Commission Organization Project Grant.
