STERLING RUBY // Studio visits on WEDNESDAY 06 MARCH

STERLING RUBY

ARTIST

"Sterling Ruby works prolifically in a wide range of mediums, from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures, to large-scale spray-painted canvases, nail polish drawings, collages and videos. Through his varied practice he conducts an assault on materials and social structures, referencing subjects that include marginalised societies, maximum-security prisons, modernist architecture, artefacts and antiquities, graffiti, bodybuilders, the mechanisms of warfare, cults and urban gangs.... His works are unique hybrids of sources, media, glosses on tradition and autobiographical notation." 

(As profiled by Saatchi Gallery at saatchi-gallery.co.uk) 

Sterling Ruby (American, born Germany, 1972) holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Upcoming solo exhibitions include EXHM at Hauser & Wirth London, SOFT WORK at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, and an exhibition at Kukje Gallery, Seoul.

FURTHER READING- 
STERLING RUBY STUDIO 
Frieze Magazine | Who is Sterling Ruby?

Sterling will be giving five studio visits on Wednesday 06 March starting at 11 AM. 

WINTER 2013 VISITING ARTISTS AND LECTURES POSTER

WU TSANG/ WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY / SCREENING W Q&A

WU TSANG

ID/NEW GENRES 

WILDNESS 

SCREENING+Q&A WITH DIRECTOR

7PM WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY

.:.:POPCORN WILL BE SERVED.::.

Super special screening with UCLA MFA ID alumn Wu Tsang!  This widely acclaimed documentary has only screened a couple times in LA and is not in distribution!  HERE + NOW, PEOPLE! And it will be cool to watch it at Warner because Wu worked on this project while in our program.  

Rooted in the tropical underground of Los Angeles nightlife, WILDNESS is a documentary portrait of the Silver Platter, a historic bar in the MacArthur Park area that has been home for Latin/LBGT immigrant communities since 1963. With a magical-realist flourish, the bar itself becomes a character, narrating what happens when a group of young artists create a weekly performance art/dance party (organized by director Wu Tsang and DJs NGUZUNGUZU & Total Freedom) called Wildness, which explodes into creativity and conflict. What does “safe space” mean, and who needs it? And how does it differ among us? At the Silver Platter, the search for answers to these questions creates coalitions across generations.  Check the website below to watch the trailer and the blog for a great account of questions and struggles and triumphs that were wrestled with during the making and release of the video.

WU TSANG is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. His artworks and performances have been presented at the 2012 Whitney Biennial and New Museum Triennial in New York, the ICA Philadelphia, MOCA Los Angeles, the Gwangju Biennial (South Korea) and upcoming at the Liverpool Biennial (UK). Tsang was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's “25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2012. His first feature WILDNESS won the Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary at Outfest 2012 [World Premiere: MoMA Documentary Fortnight (New York, NY), SXSW (Austin, TX), Hot Docs (Toronto, Canada), SANFIC8 (Santiago, Chile)]. He has received grants from Good Works, Frameline, Wexner Center for the Arts, IFP Labs, Art Matters, Tiffany Foundation, Frieze Foundation, and the Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

http://www.wildnessmovie.com/ 
http://www.wildnessmovie.com/class-blog/

SIGN UPS/ LITIA PERTA/ WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY

Litia Perta will be giving a writing workshop from 11:00AM - 12:00PM in the shoot room on Wednesday 23 January. This will be followed by a lunchtime barbeque/outdoor food tasty snack situation and 5 visits.  

Each person who gets a meeting is asked to complete a 10 minute writing exercise before your meeting.  I will get the exercise to you very soon.  It will be fun and useful. 

Please sign up with your name and chosen time in the comments section below.
 
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LITIA PERTA / WEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY / VISITS + WORKSHOP

LITIA PERTA

CRITIC

Litia Perta is a writer and teacher currently living in Brooklyn.  She completed a PhD in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. She has been critiquing American institutional training ever since.  Litia has taught critical theory and the philosophy of aesthetics at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Parsons The New School, Bard College and UC Berkeley.  She writes frequently for the Brooklyn Rail and for ArtForum’s Critic’s Picks and her work has recently appeared in Girls Like Us and Parkett.  She is interested in transformation, and in collaborating with others to develop innovative ways (both pedagogical and spiritual) to support the metamorphoses we came here to live through.

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2011/12/local/why-cooper-union-matters
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/12/artseen/josephine-halvorson
http://artforum.com/index.php?pn=picks&id=36445&view=print 

Litia Perta will be doing a writing workshop at 11:00AM - 12:00PM followed by a lunchtime barbeque and 5 visits on Wednesday 23 January.   
Anyone can come to writing workshop and will need paper and pen/pencil/writing instrument.  It will be in the shoot room.  
Those who sign up for visits will also be given a 10 minute writing exercise in advance to be completed before their meeting.  

SIGN UPS WILL BE TUESDAY 22 JANUARY AT 11AM.

SIGN UPS/ EDGAR ARCENEAUX/ THURSDAY 10 JANUARY

Edgar Arceneaux will do 2 studio visits that are 1 hour each on THURSDAY 10 JANUARY.  Please post your name and desired time in the comments section below.




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EDGAR ARCENEAUX/ THURSDAY 10 JANUARY/ LECTURE AND VISITS

EDGAR ARCENEAUX

New Genres/Painting/Sculpture/ID

Based on his interest in multiple reference systems, Edgar Arceneaux constructs in his drawings, installations and video and film works a complex network of associations, connotations, and altered levels of meaning to undermine any conventional and linear narration. In an experimental field of comparisons, fractions, and combinations of various perspectives, generally accepted codes are questioned and usual patterns of perception destabilized. Arceneaux exploreS the conditions of what it means to be human precisely at the interface of the lasting and the transitory, image and text, abstraction and figuration. Works from his project Borrowed Sun invoke jazz musician Sun Ra, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, and the Earth's sun.  He also made a video installation starring David Allen Grier titled "The Alchemy of Comedy...Stupid." He is the co-founder of the Watts House Project,  renovating residential properties and providing programs and venues for community involvement in the neighborhood around the historic Watts Towers.

Edgar Arceneaux received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2001.  His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, SFMOMA, The Studio Museum of Harlem, The Hammer, The MOCA's of LA/Detroit/Austria, The Kitchen and on and on and on. 

http://www.vielmetter.com/artists/edgar-arceneaux.html

http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_arceneaux

http://www.secession.at/art/2012_mutatis_mutandis_e.html 

Edgar Arceneaux will be doing 2 studios visits that are ONE HOUR EACH!  And then he will give a lecture at 7PM.  Sign ups begin TUESDAY 8 JANUARY at 11AM.