School of Art: Upcoming Events
TU's School of Art
presents a lecture by
Wu Hung, Art Historian, Critic and Curator
On the Contemporaneity of Contemporary Chinese Art
Thursday, April 10, 7:00pm
University of Tulsa, 207 Lorton Hall
The Harrie H. Vanderstrappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, Wu Hung is one of the premier
specialist on Chinese art, past and present. His special research interests include the relationships between the visual forms of Chinese
art, e.g., architecture, bronze vessels, etc., and the ritual, social memory and political discourses surrounding those forms. Most recently,
he curates exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, in South Korea as the Chief Curator of the 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, and in Chicago at
the Smart Museum of Art where he is Consulting Curator, among other places.
He is the author of many books on diverse subjects, authoring Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space
(University of Chicago, 2005), Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China with Christopher Phillips (University of Chicago,
2004), Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago, 1999), Monumentality in Early Chinese
Art (Stanford University Press, 1995), Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press, 1997), and editing Chinese Art at the
Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West (Institute of International Visual Arts, 2001).
(Lorton Hall is located at the corner of S. Delaware and 8th Street, parking is available in the Lorton, Westby, and Twin Towers lots).
For more information about the lecture call TU's School of Art at 918-631-2739.
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TU's School of Art and
Women's Studies Program
present a lecture by
Rick Lowe, artist, community
activist and founder of Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas
as part of the J. Donald Feagin Guest Lecture Series
Tuesday, April 15, 7:00
pm
University of Tulsa, 207 Lorton Hall
Rick Lowe has moved from
creating paintings and sculptures dealing with social issues to
an art practice that directly engages in the life of the community.
In the process, he abandoned traditional art materials and made
the community itself the basis for his work. What began as a volunteer
effort to restore a series of row houses in the historical Third
Ward district of Houston turned into Project Row Houses, an arts
and cultural community center, which now offers programs that
encompass arts and culture, neighborhood revitalization, low-income
housing, education, historic preservation, and community services.
Lowe also has participated
in exhibitions and public art projects internationally; he collaborated
on the arts plan for the Rem Koolhaus designed Public Library
in Seattle, worked with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacobs on the
Borough Project for Spoleto Festival 2003 in Charleston, S.C.,
and was the lead artist in the development of the Delray Beach
Loop, Delray Beach, FL. His own work has been exhibited at the
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Contemporary Arts Museum
and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Contemporary Arts,
Los Angele;, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Kwangju Biennale,
Kwangju, Korea; and the Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan.
He is currently involved in the Transforma Project New Orleans,
LA, which draws on the creative problem-solving skills of artists
in an effort to revitalize a community devastated by hurricane
Katrina.
Lowe has received numerous
awards and recognitions for his work, including the Rudy Bruner
Awards in Urban Excellence, the American Institute of Architecture
keystone Award, the Heinz Award in the Humanities, and the Brandywine
Lifetime Achievement Award.
For more information on
the artist and Project Row Houses visit: http://www.projectrowhouses.org/
(Lorton Hall is located at the corner of S. Delaware and 8th Street, parking is available in the Lorton, Westby, and Twin Towers lots).
For more information about the lecture call TU's School of Art at 918-631-2739.
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TU's School of Art
presents a lecture by
Alfredo Jaar, a Chilean-born,
New York-based artist, architect and filmmaker,
as part of the J. Donald Feagin Distinguished Guest Lecture Series
Thursday, September 27,
7:00 pm
University of Tulsa, 207 Lorton Hall
Alfredo Jaar's work addresses
the plight of people worldwide oppressed by colonialism, poverty,
civil war, Human Rights abuses, and AIDS. As the title of one
of his recent projects, dedicated to Antonio Gramsci, announces,
Jaar conceives his work as contributing to an "Aesthetics
of Resistance." His work - using photography, video, and
installation - not only informs us about these struggles, but
wants to inspire solidarity with its victims and implore us to
action.
Jaar's work has been shown
internationally: He has participated in the Venice, São
Paulo, Johannesburg, Sydney, Istanbul and Kwangju Biennales as
well as at Documenta in Kassel. Major solo exhibitions include
the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Whitechapel,
London; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Pergamon
Museum, Berlin; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
He has received numerous
awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Fellowship.
For more information on the artist visit his website at: http://www.alfredojaar.net/.
(Lorton Hall is located at
the corner of S. Delaware and 8th Street, parking is available
in the Lorton, Westby, and Twin Towers lots).For more information
about the lecture call TU's School of Art at 918-631-2739.
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