November 2012 – Columbia MFA VALS

Nov. 27, 2012: TOM SACHS

VALS Fall 2012

We hope you enjoyed the highly spirited, entertaining, and insightful stylings of our very own Tom Roma as much as we did. This week, we are very excited to be welcoming the highly anticipated Tom Sachs as our penultimate speaker for the fall semester.

Tom Sachs was born in New York in 1966. His work has been included in many exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, and has been collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, San Francisco MOMA, and the Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo. Major solo exhibitions include SITE Santa Fe, the Bohen Foundation, New York, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, and Fondazione Prada, Milan. Sachs lives and works in New York.

More information can be found here:

www.tomsachs.org

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Nov. 20, 2012: THOMAS ROMA

VALS Fall 2012

This coming week, our VALS team is very proud and honored to present our very own Tom Roma:

From “Dark Knights and Dark Horses” 2010

Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships, Thomas Roma’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions including the MoMA and the International Center of Photography. His books include: “Come Sunday,” “Found in Brooklyn,” “Show & Tell,” “Sanctuary,” “Sicilian Passage” and “In Prison Air.” He has taught photography since 1983 at Yale, Fordham, Cooper Union, and The School of Visual Arts and, in 1996, became the Director of Photography here at Columbia University School of the Arts. His work is in numerous collections, including SF MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA, and The Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal. He is also a founding contributing photographer to DoubleTake Magazine. Roma is a builder of, among many other things, baseball bats, motorcycles, and of course, cameras.

More information can be found here:

www.thomasroma.com

The Days of Yore Interview

Nov. 13, 2012: JULES de BALINCOURT

VALS Fall 2012

We hope everyone, along with their nearest and dearest, is safe and warm after a tumultuous couple of weeks. If anyone needs any assistance, please reach out and your Columbia community will be here for you. All you need do is ask.

Now that VALS is back up and running, we have another special outing planned for this coming Tuesday: a walkthrough with Jules de Balincourt at his current solo exhibition, “Ecstatic Contact.” Details have been sent to your emails as we are limiting this session to our graduate program.

Jules de Balincourt was born in Paris in 1972, and now lives and works in Brooklyn. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum, The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, MASS MoCA, Shanghai Museum in China, Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. De Balincourt founded and operated the alternative art venue Starr Space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Starr Space operated for three years and was used for diverse community programming like art events, yoga, a weekly farmers market, rock shows, church parties and fundraisers. His work will be the subject of solo exhibitions at Victoria Miro Gallery and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2013.

More information can be found here:

www.julesdebalincourt.com

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