Spring 2008 Speaker Series
Monday, February 11th at 7 PM in B-01
Artist's Talk
Sang-Gon Chung – Printmaker focusing on use of digital technologies.
Sang-Gon lives in Seoul, Korea, is an artist who actively engages in discourse concerning contemporary print practices and the intertextuality of digital images. His artwork has been included in numerous exhibitions, public collections – nationally and internationally. He has received many top prizes in international print competitions, including the Grand Prix at the 11th Tallinn Print Triennial in Estonia, which included a solo exhibition. His work typically questions the global identity of nations and borders, individuals and society using media images.
Image: Phenomenon, Three days in north Han River—NamYangJu Project (2002) digital print on parachute fabric, 350 x 350 cm.
Tuesday, February 19th at 7PM in B-01
Artist's Talk
Paolo Piscitelli – Trans-media sculptor and installation artist.
Paolo Piscitelli, born in Venaria, Italy is a sculptor who connects the experience of the visual and the listening, considering the physical and emotional memory, context and possibility, of each environment. His work is essentially based on two ideas: the foundation of sculpture is not materials but space. Its nature, like the nature of reality itself, is not static but dynamic. He studies and oftentimes calls upon experts in the fields of science, physics, sound, architecture and philosophy. Since Piscitelli’s debut solo exhibition in 1996, Nuovi Arrivi, at Galleria San Filippo, Torino, he has exhibited widely throughout Europe and Asia. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Texas A&M University.
Image: Film still from Labor (2007), DVD video, 16:09 minutes.
Thursday, February 28th at 5 PM in B-01
Patricia Meadows, Juror’s Talk for 21st Annual Juried Art Student Exhibition.
Meadows is the Curator of the Texas Sculpture Garden, the largest private collection of contemporary Texas sculpture owned by the Hall Financial Group in Frisco, TX.
Tuesday, April 1 at 7 PM in B-01
"Marking the Body :: Visualizing Stigmata in the 15th and 16th Centuries"
Dr. Cordelia Warr, Lecturer in the History of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Manchester University, UK.
Saint Francis is probably the stigmatic most depicted in Italy between the thirteenth and the sixteenth centuries. For a long time the Franciscans defended Francis as the only saint to have received the stigmata. However, between Francis' death and the end of the nineteenth century over three hundred stigmatics had been recorded. This paper concentrates on the ways in which Dominican women including Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), Osanna Andreasi (d. 1505) and Stefana Quinzani (d. 1530) experienced their stigmata and were promoted as stigmatics during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Image: Saint Catherine of Siena receiving the stigmata. Panel from Giovanni di Paolo’s Pizzicaiuolo Altarpiece (1447-1449).
Tuesday, April 15 at 7 PM in B-01
Artist's Talk
Danica Phelps, mixed media installation artist from New York City.
Danica Phelps is a conceptual artist whose work functions as a timepiece recording her life. Often her work takes the form of obsessive accumulations like intimate receipts. Stacks of drawings are urgently pinned on top of each other while others are clustered together in new formations on the wall. Phelps has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and she spent a year at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and Europe.
April 28th & 29th – Times & Location TBA
Drive-By Press (Gregory Nanney and Joseph Velazquez)
Exhibitions and visiting speakers programs at the School of Art are supported by generous grants from the Helen Jones Foundation and The CH Foundation, both of Lubbock. Additional support comes from Cultural Activities Fees administered through the College of Visual & Performing Arts.