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MICHAEL ALMEREYDA Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Michael Almereyda (born 1960) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet (2000), starring Ethan Hawke. Born in Overland Park, Kansas, Almereyda studied art history at Harvard University, and dropped out his senior year to move to New York to pursue screenwriting. He has worked with Museum School alum David Lynch, as well as Tim Burton, Warner Brothers and HBO as a director for the original series, Deadwood, among several other accomplishments. His documentary profiling William Eggleston premiered at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York in 2005. Almereyda recently completed filming of New Orleans, Mon Amour, a twisted love story set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, featuring stunning use of the apocalyptic destruction of the city.
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CHEYNEY THOMPSON Thursday, February 16, 2012
Cheyney Thompson is a New York-based artist whose work in painting and sculpture centers on issues of abstraction and representation. His work is the subject of a survey exhibition on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center on February 10 - April 8, 2012. Alongside recent exhibitions at Sutton Lane (Brussels and Paris), Galerie Daniel Bucholz (Berlin and Köln), and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York), Thompson's work has been featured in significant exhibitions such as Slow Painting, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (2009), Collatéral, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers Cedex, France (2009), Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009), and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008). Thompson teaches in the MFA Program in Visual Art at Bard College, New York.
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SARA VANDERBEEK Thursday, February 16, 2012
"Sara VanDerBeek is every historicist's dream: an artist whose biography and practice seem so symmetrical that it's tempting to skip all of the written arguments and simply draw a diagram... Most obvious is the curatorial quality of her work: each assemblage is like an exhibition space, the pictures that adorn it are like objects carefully selected for the show, and the photographs themselves serv as a monograph of what once was." – Excerpt from "Sara VanDerBeek: Biography, autonomy, portals and portholes; photographs, assemblages and scuptures," Graham T. Beck, Frieze, Issue 130, April 2010
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MOHAMED ABLA Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Mohamed Abla (b. 1953, Belqas, Egypt) is an artist and educator and founder of the Fayoum Art Center, Fayoum, Egypt. Abla exhibits and teaches internationally and has been exhibiting since 1979. His most recent exhibition sites include: The British Museum (2005); Gallery Hohman, Germany (2006); Zamalek Gallery, Cairo (2005, 2004, 2002); Havana Biennial (2003), Cairo Biennial (1996). He received first prize at the Alexandria Biennial in 1997.
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MIKE PERRY Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Mike Perry is a designer and artist working in a variety of mediums, including—but not limited to—books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawing, painting and illustration. Mike Perry is compelled by the ways in which the hand-drawn informs and deepens contemporary visual culture. Perry works regularly for a number of editorial and commercial clients including Apple, the New York Times, Dwell, Target, Urban Outfitters, eMusic and Nike. In 2004, he was chosen as one of Step magazine's 30 under 30, and, in 2007, as a "Groundbreaking Illustrator" by Computer Arts Projects. In 2008, he received Print magazine's New Visual Artist award and the ADC Young Guns 6. His work has been exhibited around the world including the two recent, solo shows in Tokyo, Japan, "We are the Infinity of Each Other" and "B Gallery and Color, Shapes and Infinity" at Public Image 3d Gallery.
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RANDY WRAY Thursday, March 1, 2012
"Traces of Randy Wray's Southern upbringing abound in his meticulously created paintings, sculptures, and installations, along with hints of the supernatural and the alien as well as of an age long passed. Describing his sculptures as "psychic architecture," he uses found objects as points of departure to create ghostly assemblages that can be seen alternately as organic and architectural. Wray's work evokes the sense of ruin found in much Southern Gothic literary tradition, as well as intimations of the haunted, the grotesque, and the everyday supernatural." - Michele Yun, MoMA PS1
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JANIE GEISER Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Janie Geiser is an internationally recognized experimental filmmaker and visual/theater artist whose work is known for its sense of mystery, its detailed evocation of self-contained worlds, and its strength of design. Her films are "as extravagantly beautiful as they are difficult, and as allusive as they are elusive" (Cinemascope, Spring 2001). Geiser's films have been screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Pacific Film Archives, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Los Angeles Filmforum, and at numerous festivals, including six New York Film Festivals, the Toronto Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Her film The Red Book was selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, and her film The Fourth Watch was selected by Film Comment as one of the top ten experimental film of the last decade. Geiser's films are in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library, and numerous universities, including CalArts.
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JOHN DIVOLA Thursday, March 8, 2012
"Divola's series is titled 'Dark Star,' a point of light in the universe too faint for direct observation. His domestic ruins suggest social collapse, but these quietly alarming photographs also resonate within our cold cosmos of hidden black sites and secret renditions. They suggest something sinister as well as sad, brilliantly illuminating our conflicted recent history." – Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, January 22, 2009
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STEVE ALMOND Thursday, March 8, 2012
Author Steve Almond joins us for an evening of art and politics. A widely acclaimed short story writer and essayist, Almond's recent books include the collection of stories God Bless America and non-fiction titles Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life and Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America. Almond writes for the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times, and he taught creative writing at Boston College until 2006 when his open letter of resignation was published in the Globe as a response to the college's selection of Condoleeza Rice as commencement speaker.
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ALISON ELIZABETH TAYLOR Thursday, March 15, 2012
Alison Elizabeth Taylor has become well known for reinvigorating the Renaissance craft of marquetry, or intarsia wood inlay, a medium once made popular during the unprecedented age of luxury in Louis XIV's Court of Versailles. By choosing a medium that is typically associated with wealth and power to portray dystopian scenes of everyday life, Taylor creates a tension between the luxurious connotations of the material and a certain abjectness of the subject matter.
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LESLIE THORNTON Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Leslie Thornton has been at the very forefront of experimental film and media since the 1980s, having completed more than thirty film and video works and installations. An acknowledged pioneer in media, Thornton's early film and video work first addressed the interplay between cinema, video, installation and improvisation in a manner that prefigured many contemporary media strategies. Her major projects include Peggy and Fred in Hell (a 26 year, multi-episodic work), Adynata (an early film dealing with Orientalism), Another Worldly (a found footage "musical" and critique), Let Me Count The Ways: Minus 10, 9, 8, 7... (a serial, modular video, addressing the exfoliations of war), and The Binocular Series (an ongoing installation project based upon imagery of animals).
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EILEEN QUINLAN Thursday, March 29, 2012
"Eileen Quinlan describes herself as a still-life photographer. Born in 1972, she has become well known in recent years as one of a cohort of photographers—Walead Beshty and Liz Deschenes are notable others—who, following in the footsteps of practitioners from Moholy-Nagy to James Welling, have been disassembling the layered apparatus of photography (light, subject, optics, chemistry, bytes, the material image) and finding new means of expression.
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LEIGHTON PIERCE Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Leighton Pierce uses film, video, and sound to create experiences in transformative time. He creates multi-channel site-specific installations as well as single channel works. Pierce studied ceramics and music composition, especially jazz and electronic music, before making films. In fact, his first move into filmmaking came about from his frustration with the lack of a visual component to taped music. It is a continuation of this early interest in music and the construction of emotional experiences in time that continue to guide his work. Perhaps partly due to this background in ceramics and music, Pierce executes all aspects of his works himself including the conception, the cinematography, the editing, and of course the sound design and composition. While widely recognized for his stunning cinematography, he considers his editing and sound design to be the core of his art.
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DAVID HUMPHREY Thursday, April 12, 2012
David Humphrey has long been interested in the intersection of desire and consumerism in middle-class America. At times both humorous and disturbing, his work employs vernacular imagery drawn from the ephemera of American consumer culture. His canvases are populated with images of kittens, poodles, flowers, vacuum cleaners, peanut butter and other objects that elicit feelings of familiarity and nostalgia.
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EMMA BOWKETT Thursday, April 19, 2012
Emma Bowkett is Picture Editor at the Financial Times FT Weekend Magazine. Prior to FT, she worked as first assistant to a London photographer. She is also a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths University of London where she teaches photography in the Media and Communications department. Bowkett has a masters degree in Image and Communication.
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