Ruby Neri: Sign-up

Studio Visits for Tuesday May 10th:

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30

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4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

Andrea Bowers: Sign-up

Studio Visits for Monday May 9th:

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30

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4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

Ruby Neri / Burkhardt Lecture Series

Sign-ups will be posted on Friday, May 6th at 12:00pm.

Studio Visits for Tuesday May 10th:

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30

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4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

Lecture at Warner on May 10th, 7:00 pm.

Ruby Neri holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco. She is included in the upcoming Hammer Museum exhibition Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and 
Bitch is the New Black, curated by Emma Gray for Honor Fraser, Los Angeles. She has exhibited work at Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (1997), Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles (2006) and China Art Objects (1999 & 2005).

Andrea Bowers

Sign-ups will be posted on Friday, May 6th at 11:00am.

Studio Visits for Monday May 9th:

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30

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4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00

5:00-5:30

Lecture at Warner on Monday, May 9th 7:00 pm.

Andrea Bowers has an MFA from CalArts and is represented by Suzanne Vielmetter Gallery where she will have a solo show this year. Andrea Bowers says her work "focuses primarily on direct action and non-violent civil disobedience enacted through the lives of women. I present the stories of activists to express my belief that dissent is essential to maintaining a democratic process, as well as to illustrate the importance of a political strategy that stands in opposition to violence and war. My work explores the intersections between art and archival processes, and between aesthetics and political protest." Her work takes the forms of video installation, drawing and bookmaking, yet also encompasses a wide variety of other materials and interventions.

from: http://www.focala.org/foca_fellowships.php

LINKS

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/andrea_bowers.php

http://www.vielmetter.com/artists/Andrea_Bowers/selected_works/view/2151.html

Rebecca Morris: Sign-up

Studio Visits for Monday May 2nd (45 minute meetings):

2:00-2:45

2:45-3:30

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4:00-4:45

4:45-5:30

Rebecca Morris / Burkhardt Lecture Series

Sign-ups will be posted on Friday April 29th at 11:00am.

Studio Visits for Monday May 2nd (45 minute meetings):

2:00-2:45

2:45-3:30

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4:00-4:45

4:45-5:30

Lecture at Warner on May 2nd at 7pm.

Press Release from January 2011 show with Harris Lieberman, New York:

Morris’s “perverse formalism” mixes direct paint handling and strikingly bold forms. Since leaving school in 1994 for an art world largely indifferent to abstract painting, Morris has mined an intensively personal, uncanny visual language. The conversation has shifted, in the interim, to focus on resurgent modes of abstract painting, and with it comes greater understanding of Morris’s paintings, which confidently toe the art-historical and the everyday, the “old school/new school,” of abstraction. In her personal manifesto “For Abstractionists and Friends of the Non-Objective” Morris gives ideological heft to the hard-won and unconventionally beautiful visual language that makes her such a singular painter in the field. Over a series of large, predominantly square canvases on view in the gallery, Morris runs the gamut of painterly techniques, interlocking jig-jag fields of diluted oils, in one work, with a Constructivist-byway-of-Memphis bravado; and in other paintings, dialing down the painterly excess to let her grids and swarms jitter about on spare grounds. Morris customarily makes her paintings on the floor of her studio atop a canvas working tarp – a method that contributes to the grit and tactility of her surfaces. One such tarp has been repurposed for this show as a backhanded painting, and its accumulated marks and splotches have been stained and set in relief by a thick field of silver spray paint. Though the silver divides the tarp into triangles and polygons, under the aegis of geometric abstraction, the effect is far stranger than expected. Stumbling out of their ideological frame, Morris’s canvases uncover new and fertile routes for abstract painting.

Rebecca Morris was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BA from Smith College and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Morris was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has also received awards from the Tiffany Foundation, The Durfee Foundation, Art Matters, and the Illinois Arts Council. She has had solo exhibitions at The Renaissance Society, Chicago and The Santa Monica Museum of Art. Group exhibitions include The Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland; The Hessel Art Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; and Participant Inc., New York.

Rebecca Morse: Sign-up

Studio Visits for Tuesday April 26th:

2:00-2:30

2:30-3:00

3:00-3:30

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4:00-4:30

4:30-5:00