September 2012 – Columbia MFA VALS

Oct. 2, 2012: MARTIN KERSELS

VALS Fall 2012

Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and participation in last week’s VALS visit. Let’s keep it up as we welcome Martin Kersels this coming Tuesday.

Sleeper's Dream, 2003 — Sleeper’s Dream, 2003

Martin Kersels was born in Los Angeles and is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale. His body of work ranges from the collaborative performances with the group SHRIMPS (1984-1993) to large-scale sculptures such as Tumble Room (2001). Since 1994, Mr. Kersels’ objects and projects have been exhibited at museums both nationally and internationally, including the 1997 and 2010 Whitney Biennials, the Pompidou Center, MOCA Los Angeles, the Tinguely Museum, Kunsthalle Bern, and the Getty Museum. A survey of his work, entitled “Heavyweight Champion,” was exhibited at the Tang Museum in 2007 and the Santa Monica Museum in 2008. Before arriving at Yale, Mr. Kersels was a faculty member and Co-Director of the Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts.

More information can be found here:

Acme Los Angeles

LA Times: Heavyweight Champion

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Sept. 25, 2012: PAUL PFEIFFER

VALS Fall 2012

This coming Tuesday, your VALS team is very excited to present multimedia artist, Paul Pfeiffer.

Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, HI, spent most of his childhood in the Philippines, and has lived and worked in New York since 1990. Sites for solo exhibitions include the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, the Barbican Arts Centre in London, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Pfeiffer has participated in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale and is the recipient of numerous awards including the inaugural Bucksbaum Award, the Alpert Award, and the Guna S. Mundheim Berlin Prize. His work can be found in the collections of the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, the Ellipse Foundation in Portugal, the Guggenheim, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. Pfeiffer has a solo exhibition currently on view at Paula Cooper Gallery.

More information can be found at:

http://www.paulacoopergallery.com/exhibitions/524

http://www.thomasdane.com/artist.php?artist_id=12

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/paul-pfeiffer

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Sept. 18, 2012: DANA HOEY

VALS Fall 2012

This week our wonderful guest will be Dana Hoey.

Dana Hoey works with photography, video and collage. She has exhibited at the Hirshorn Museum in Washington D.C., the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, PS1, here in New York City, and at various commercial galleries in the United States and Europe. Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles MoCA, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C., and the Guggenheim, New York. Hoey is represented by the Friedrich Petzel Gallery. More examples can be found at www.danahoey.com.

Sept. 11, 2012: KATE GILMORE

VALS Fall 2012

The VALS team would like to thank everyone for making last week’s debut such a memorable event. This week we are honored to have Kate Gilmore as the next visiting artist in our series. There will be a screening of a selection or her performances and a discussion over food and drink.

Kate Gilmore is an installation, video, and performance-based artist. Selected exhibitions include the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art; Brooklyn Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Bryant Park (Public Art Fund); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Artpace, San Antonio; The J. Paul Getty Museum; The Rose Art Museum; Istanbul Museum of Art; Haifa Museum of Art; PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center. She has a solo exhibition opening at MOCA Cleveland in March 2013. Gilmore has been the recipient of several international awards and honors, such as the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Award for Artistic Excellence, the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance, Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, The LMCC Workspace Residency, New York Foundation for The Arts Fellowship, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Residency. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Links to videos and images of her performances can be found at www.kategilmore.com.

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Sept. 4, 2012: ALFREDO JAAR

VALS Fall 2012

The VALS team is very excited to present our inaugural speaker for the 2012-2013 season: Alfredo Jaar.

Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. He was born in Santiago de Chile in 1956.

His work has been shown extensively around the world. He has participated in the Biennales of Venice, São Paulo, Sydney, and Istanbul among others, as well as Documenta in Kassel.

Venues for his solo exhibitions include the New Museum in NY, Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Fundación Telefónica in Santiago and Musée des Beaux Arts in Lausanne. This summer in Berlin an extensive retrospective titled, “The Way It Is. An Aesthetics of Resistance,” was presented by the New Society for Visual Arts across three major sites around the city.

Jaar is a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow and has received Spain’s prestigious Premio Extremadura a la Creación.

More information can be found at:

www.alfredojaar.net

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2009/04/art/alfredo-jaar