Daily Archives: 02/05/2019

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VALS Lecture—Korakrit Arunanondchai—Tuesday Jan 22, 6:30pm

VALS Spring 2019
VALS: Korakrit Arunanondchai
Tuesday, January 22nd, 6:30-8pm
Prentis 101
Bangkok-raised artist Korakrit Arunanondchai engages a myriad of subjects such as history, authenticity, self-representation, and tourism through the lens of a cultural transplant. His work seeks to find a common ground in artistic experiences through a pastiche of styles and mediums. In his wide-ranging practice, Arunanondchai puts a premium on collaboration—whether it’s photographing fellow downtown characters or combining music, video, and performance. Arunanondchai discovered art in high school, when he saw Olafur Eliasson’s Sun on a visit to London; soon after he moved to the U.S. to attend RISD and Columbia, where he studied under Rirkrit Tiravanija. Along with his blends of pop culture and music—he had a close call with rock stardom in his native Thailand—Arunanondchai cites a range of artistic references, from a remix of Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and a feature film featuring Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty to a series of paintings based on an act from Thailand’s Got Talent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/arts/design/korakrit-arunanondchai-clearing-gallery-bushwick.html
https://frieze.com/article/korakrit-arunanondchai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbWxS9JToXM
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3707

Poster by James Mercer, MFA ’20

VALS Lecture—Dara Birnbaum—Tuesday Dec 4, 6:30pm

VALS Fall 2018

 

VALS: Dara Birnbaum
Tuesday, December 4th, 6:30-8pm
Prentis 101
Dara Birnbaum is an American video and installation artist. Birnbaum entered the nascent field of video art in the mid-to-late 1970s challenging the gendered biases of the period and television’s ever-growing presence within the American household. Her oeuvre primarily addresses ideological and aesthetic features of mass media through the intersection of video art and television. She uses video to reconstruct television imagery using materials such as archetypal formats as quizzes, soap operas, and sports programmes. Her techniques involve the repetition of images and interruption of flow with text and music. She is also well known for forming part of the feminist art movement that emerged within video art in the mid-1970s. Birnbaum currently lives and works in New York.

Poster by Rachel LaBine, MFA ’19

VALS Lecture—Lynne Tillman—Tuesday Nov 27, 6:30pm

VALS Fall 2018

 

 

 

VALS: Lynne Tillman
Tuesday, November 27th, 6:30-8pm
Prentis 101
Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and American Genius, A Comedy. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her most recent short story collections are Someday This Will Be Funny and The Complete Madame Realism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. She lives in Manhattan with bass player David Hofstra.

Poster by Kate Liebman, MFA ’19

VALS Lecture—Alex Da Corte—Tuesday Nov 20, 6:30pm

VALS Fall 2018

VALS: Alex Da Corte
Tuesday, November 20th, 6:30-8pm
Prentis 101
Alex Da Corte was born in Camden, New Jersey, in 1980. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale University School of Art. His most recent solo exhibition THE SUPƎRMAN, was held at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany (2018) Other recent solo exhibitions include C-A-T SPELLS MURDER, Karma Gallery, New York, New York (2018) Slow Graffiti, Secession Building, Vienna, Austria; A Man Full Of Trouble at Maccarone Gallery, New York; 50 Wigs at the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark; A Season in He’ll at Art + Practice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Free Roses MASS MoCA, North Adams (2016); Die Hexe at Luxembourg & Dayan Gallery, New York; Devil Town at Gio Marconi, Milan; Le Miroir Vivant at The Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (2015); Easternsports at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014, together with Jayson Musson). Da Corte’s work was also included in 57th Carnegie International. Past group exhibitions include Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; the 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France among many others. In 2012, Da Corte was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

 

Poster by Cara Lynch, MFA ’20

VALS Lecture—Seth Price—Tuesday Nov 13, 6:30pm

VALS Fall 2018

 

 

VALS: Seth Price
Tuesday, November 13th, 6:30-8pm
Prentis 101
Seth Price (born December 13, 1973, East Jerusalem)
In 2017-2018, Seth Price presented a comprehensive survey exhibition, Social Synthetic, at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands which then travelled to the Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany. His exhibition Danny, Mila, Hannah, Ariana, Bob, Brad was on view at MoMA Ps1 over the summer of 2018. He will have a forthcoming exhibition at the Petzel Chelsea gallery in November 2018. He also has had solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art, London; MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy; Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland; Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England (with Kelley Walker); Petzel Gallery, New York; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy (with Michael Smith); Artists Space, New York; and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York. Group exhibitions include dOCUMENTA (13), the 2011 Venice Biennale ILLUMInations, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Altermodern, the fourth Tate Triennial at Tate Britain, UK; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Le Plateau, Paris; Air de Paris, Paris; Greater New York at P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York; Kunsthalle Basel; SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York; the 2002 and 2008 Whitney Biennials; 2003 Ljubljana Biennial; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Florida; and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, among others.
His video works have been screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival; Tate Britain, London; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Eyebeam, New York; and Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, among others.
His work is included in the collections of the Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Price currently lives and works in New York.

Poster by Vikram Divecha, MFA ’19

VALS Lecture—Jennifer Packer—Thursday Nov 8, 6:30pm

VALS Fall 2018

 

VALS: Jennifer Packer
Thursday, November 8th, 6:30-8pm
Prentis 101
Jennifer Packer creates expressionist portraits, interior scenes, and still lifes that suggest a casual intimacy. Packer views her works as the result of an authentic encounter and exchange. The models for her portraits – commonly friends or family members – are relaxed and seemingly unaware of the artist’s or viewer’s gaze.
Packer’s paintings are rendered in loose line and brush stroke using a limited color palette, often to the extent that her subject merges with or retreats into the background. Suggesting an emotional and psychological depth, her work is enigmatic, avoiding a straightforward reading. “I think about images that resist, that attempt to retain their secrets or maintain their composure, that put you to work,” she explains. “I hope to make works that suggest how dynamic and complex our lives and relationships really are.”
Born in 1984 in Philadelphia, Jennifer Packer received her BFA from the Tyler University School of Art at Temple University in 2007, and her MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2012. She was the 2012-2013 Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and a Visual Arts Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, from 2014-2016. Her most recent solo show, Tenderheaded, exhibited at the Renaissance Society, Chicago in the fall of 2017 before traveling to the Rose Museum at Brandeis University in March of 2018. Packer currently lives and works in New York and is an assistant professor in the painting department at RISD.
Poster by Susanna Koetter, MFA ’19