Visiting Artists and Scholars Archive
2008
April 10 2008 Visiting Scholar Lecture "Queen of Arts: Memoirs of a Scholar of Pleasure," presented by James Saslow in Fine Arts Building room 249 at 7 pm. Dr. Saslow is Professor of Renaissance Art and Theater in the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in art and visual aspects of theater. His writings include Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (2001) and The Poetry of Michelangelo: An Annotated Translation (1991).
April 3, 2008 Mark Klett photographs the intersection of cultures, landscapes and time. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Buhl Foundation, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. His work has been exhibited and collected both nationally and internationally for over 25 years, and he is the author of thirteen books. Klett is Regents’ Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. More info about Mark Klett at thirdview.org. art.fsu.edu
March 20, 2008 - Steve Kurtz is a founding member of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). CAE is a collective of tactical media practitioners of various specializations, including computer graphics and web design, wetware, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and performance. Formed in 1987, CAE’s focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism. Critical Art Ensemble has also written five books, and has just released its sixth work Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health. Kurtz is a Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY, Buffalo. More info at critical-art.net.
February 13, 2008 - Jeanne Quinn received her undergraduate degree in art history from Oberlin College; she received her M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Washington. She has exhibited widely, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Grimmerhus Museum, Denmark; Formargruppen Gallery, Malmö, Sweden; Sculpturens Hus, Stockholm, Sweden; and the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado. She lives and works in Boulder, Colorado, and Brooklyn, New York. More info at jeannequinnstudio.com.
January 24 2008 Visiting Scholar Geoffrey Batchen “Snapshots: Art History and the Ethnographic Turn”
Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of the History of Photography and Contemporary Art in the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He has curated exhibitions around the world, including most recently Forget-Me-Not: Photography and Remembrance, a survey of vernacular photographs at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
2007
November 13 2007 Visiting Scholar Frederick Bohrer "Photography, Worldliness, and the Middle East: Then and Now"
November 5 2007 Visiting Scholar "How Cultural Property Laws Affect Museums" Tess Koncick, Esq. - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Monday, 11:00 a.m. Room 250 Fine Arts Building, FSU Museum of Fine Arts
November 1 2007 Visiting Scholar Helen Evans Mary and Michael Jaharis for Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents: “The Holy Monastery of St. Catherine at Sinai: Responses to a Sacred Space”
October 11 2007 Andrew Schoultz: After traveling around the United States for skateboarding and graffiti, Andrew Schoultz settled in San Francisco where he currently lives and works. Through murals, paintings, installations, and drawings, he tells stories about everyday life in America through images resulting from political commentary filtered through graffiti, underground comics, early 1900-inspired clip art, and medieval renderings. While showing in Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, and Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, he continues to reach the diverse audiences through large-scale public murals.
October 4 2007 Lecture: Melinda Barlow, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The editor of Mary Lucier: Art & Performance (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), Professor Barlow is the author of Lost Objects of Desire: Video Installation, Mary Lucier, and the Romance of History (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press), and Curiosa in Motion, a book in progress on Janie Geiser. Professor Barlow served as a Curatorial Consultant for the exhibition Locating Secret Psychological Space.
September 27, 2007 Lecture: Jonathan Van Dyke. Van Dyke lives and works in New York City. He received a B.A., Honors in Art from Washington & Lee University and a M.F.A. in Sculpture from The Milton Avery Graduate School of Bard College. He completed a post-baccalaureate fellowship in studio art and the history of art at The Glasgow School of Art & The University of Glasgow, Scotland. This Lecture is funded by a generous gift from the late Vincent and Mary Agnes Thursby. More info about Jonathan Van Dyke at jonathanvandyke.com
September 25, 2007 Lecture: Ibiyinka Alao. The Department of Art is pleased to present ONE NIGHT OF GRACE A lecture by Ibiyinka Alao, Art Ambassador of Nigeria. Ibiyinka’s perspective is from the traditional African viewpoint. Born on October 17, 1975, Ibiyinka was trained as an Architect at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He recently became the first place winner of the prestigious United Nations International Art Competition. In addition to his international activity, his paintings have been exhibited at the Indianapolis Art Center, the Martin Luther King Art Center, the Nigerian Consulate in New York, the Nigerian Embassy, Washington, D.C., the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures in New York, and the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
March 29 2007 Visiting Artist: Beverly Semmes - Transforming the Decorative into an Icon of StrengthBeverly Semmes lives and works in New York City. Semmes studied art at Yale University and Tufts University. She has had solo exhibitions in Denmark, Italy, and Germany, and is represented by Leslie Tonkonow in New York City. She has received fellowships from the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Foundation.
March 15 2007 Visiting Artist: Erik Parker Erik Parker “Seussical arabesques memorializing the founding fathers, while fathering a new foundation...” —David Hunt
Erik Parker lives and works in New York City. Parker received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and MFA in the State University of New York at Purchase. He has had solo exhibitions in Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, and Japan, and is represented by Leo Koenig in New York City.
February 22, 2007 Corrina Sephora Mensoff - Artist, Sculptor, Metalworker: A Voyage A visual artist based in Atlanta, Georgia, Mensoff has worked in metal since the age of five. She is a sculptor, metalsmithing expert, and multimedia installation artist. She is the founder of Phoenix Metalworks in Atlanta, which specializes in sculpture, architectural features, and furniture. She has done numerous workshops throughout the U.S., and her recent exhibitions include: The Attleboro Art Museum in Massachusetts, the Roswell Visual Arts Center in Georgia, Form and Function Gallery in Georgia, and The Ohio Craft Museum.
February 1, 2007 Terence Riley - "Modern in a Post-Modern World" Riley is the Director of the Miami Art Museum. Prior to joining the Miami Art Museum in 2006, Terence Riley was The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he curated such major exhibitions as "On Site: New Architecture in Spain" (2006), "Light Construction" (2004), "Tall Buildings" (2003), "The Un-Private House" (2002), "Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect" (2002), and "Mies in Berlin" (2001). He is the author of numerous books and exhibition catalogues, and has taught at both Columbia and Harvard universities.
2006
November 18, 2006 "Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat" Professor William E. Wallace - Department of Art History and Archaeology, Washington University. Professor Wallace is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo. He has published extensively on Renaissance art, and is the author and editor of four books on Michelangelo, including Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur. He has recently completed a biography of Michelangelo which is the subject of his talk
October 26th, 2006 Dept. of Art Alumni Lecture - Michael Wyshock received his MFA Studio Art degree from FSU in 2002. He served as an Assistant Professor at Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana and was the Director of Shared Studio Productions in New Orleans. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the State University of New York at Oneonta working in drawing, sculpture and time-based media.
October 19, 2006 "Art Stolen, Art Reclaimed, Art Returned? Art and the Law, Antiquity to WWII" Dr. Roussin's PhD is from Columbia University, where her field was Late Roman Art. Her legal practice is concerned with the rearation and restitution of cultural property. Thursday, October 19th 7:00pm Room 249 - Fine Arts Building
October 18, 2006 Samuel Yates (public art/installation/sculpture) http://www.samuelyates.com/
Lecture Wednesday October 18th 7:00 PM Room 332 FAB
FSU MoFA Public Lecture Series Exhibition: The Family Experience
June 6, 2006 Intra-Family Relationships: Two person panel Presentation Intra-Family Relationships in Shakespeare's Plays, An Historical View of Family Development: Stuart Baker. Intra-Family Relationships in Contemporary Film: Valerie Scoon.
June 8, 2006 Family Art Therapy Treatment: Three Person Panel Presentation. Panelists: Carolyn Brown, Treadon Dina Ricco, and Mindy Moore.
June 1, 2006 Families in Crisis and Treatment: Panel Presentation. Family Violence: Sarah Conn and Carolyn Sawtell. Women and Families in Shelters: Patricia Smith.
May 30, 2006 Cultural Differences in Families: Panel Presentation. Growing Up Hispanic: Sheila Ortiz Taylor, Growing Up Muslim: Wafa Elsaka, African-American Families: Brenda Jarmon, Asian Families: Aaron Lan, and Native American Families: Petra Soliman.
May 25, 2006 Judy Chicago's and Donald Woodman's At Home: Family Secrets
Speaker: Dr. Vivien Green FrydMay 23, 2006 Family Dynamics: Panel Presentation
Installation as Revelation Speaker: Dr. Viki D. Thompson Wylder
Reverse Relationships in Families Speakers: Mary Jane Allaman & Amity Moncrief.
April 13, 2006, 7:00pm: Christina Kiaer, "Modern Soviet Art Meets America, 1935." An examination of the work produced by the Soviet Socialist-Realist painter Aleksandr Deineka during a voyage to the United States in 1935. Professor Kiaer is Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Chicago. She is the author of Imagine No Possessions: The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism (2005) and the co-editor of Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia: Taking the Revolution Inside (2005).
March 2, 2006, 7:00pm: The Art of Cast Iron - Fine Arts Building, Fallon Mainstage Theatre. The FSU Sculpture Club under the auspices of the Art Department presents a series of lectures by cast iron artists Charles Hook, Kristy Summers, Jason Kimes, Andy Anzardo, and Keynote speaker Skip VanHouten.
March 2, 2006, 7:00pm: Eugene Wang, "Thinking Outside the Nesting Boxes: Buddhist Reliquaries from a Ninth-Century Chinese Crypt." An underground crypt was discovered in the Tang-dynasty pagoda basement of a Chinese Buddhist monastery in 1987. A set of eight nesting reliquary caskets were found arranged in the manner of Russian dolls. The reliquary contains examples of the earliest surviving mandalas in China. Professor Wang's lecture will unpack the nesting caskets to reveal the vast ancient and medieval Chinese imaginary cosmos embedded therein. Eugene Y. Wang is Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University. His most recent book is Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005). He is the art history associate editor of Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2004).
February 16, 2006, 7:00pm: New York artist Steed Taylor, will lecture in 249. Steed will be making a site-specific "road tattoo" in the circular driveway of FAB all week from Feb. 13-17. Twists and turns in his own life have led him to create hopeful designs as a way of honoring an unseen infrastructure of professionals in ADA and health areas. His work is intended to be abraded by the traffic and to fade away. Click to view a sample of his work [pdf] .
February 10, 2006, 6 pm: W.J.T. Mitchell, "Sacred Images and the Holy War on Terror: Meyer Schapiro’s ‘Theme of State’ Today," W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Art History and English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He is editor-in-chief of the highly esteemed, interdisciplinary journal, Critical Inquiry, and the author or editor of ten books, including most recently, What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images (2005), The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon (1998), and Picture Theory (1994), the latter of which won the Charles Rufus Morey Prize in art history awarded annually by the School Art Association of America for especially distinguished publications.
February 2, 2006, 7 pm: Mel Edwards is one of the leading African American artists in the country, and best known for his renowned sculptural series, the Lynch Fragments, densely packed sculptures made up of found iron tools and artifacts that act as metaphoric references to the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans. Mel Edwards is a Professor at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts teaching courses in Third World art, drawing and sculpture. Edwards has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, and has completed more than 15 public art projects across the United States. In addition, he has had major exhibitions from Paris to Japan and has received a Fulbright fellowship to Zimbabwe. His research into Third World visual culture has taken him to Morocco, Senegal, Brazil, China, Cuba and Nigeria. Several of his works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Utsukuski-ga-hara Open-Air Museum in Japan.
January 17, 2006, 6:45pm: Corrina Mensoff and Karen Tauches will deliver a talk about their collaborative efforts at Sculpture Key West this month. Sculpture Key West is an annual exhibition of contemporary outdoor sculpture set in an historic state park in Key West, Florida. Sculpture Key West 2006 opens January 15 and runs through March 17.
2005
December 8, 2005, 7:00pm: Noritoshi Hirakawa Known for his images of women and dancers, Noritoshi Hirakawa invites the viewer to explore traditional standards of conduct and thinking, giving something of an exhilarating thrill to those who agree to play his games of dare. The work of Noritoshi Hirakawa has been exhibited in the New Museum and PS1, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Nederland Fotomuseum, Rotterdam; Kunsthalle, St. Gallen; Kunstmuseum, Bern; The 4th Istanbul Biennial; and SMAK, Ghent.
October 20, 2005, 7:00pm: Peter Halley is most well known for his painted abstractions of large rectilinear compositions that use Day-Glo and acrylic paints and areas of stucco texture to create subtle or brilliant effects. His work suggests the angular and rigid geometries of structures as diverse as prison cells and computer chips. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulation, Halley’s own philosophy became the basis for Neo-Geometric Conceptualism, a term associated with the work of Halley, Ashley Bickerton, and Jeff Koons.
October 13, 2005, 7:00pm: Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Professor of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, who will speak on "Arcimboldo's Serious Jokes and the Origins of Still Life Painting." Professor Kaufmann will meet informally with students on Friday, Oct. 14 to discuss his recent work on Global Exchange in Art.
April 2, 3:00-5:00 pm: The Guerrilla Girls will do a panel discussion "Race and Gender in the Art World". Presented by The Undergraduate Art History Association in the Fine Arts Building room 249.
March 31, 7:00 pm: Max Becher & Andrea Robbins, artistic duo who use photography, film, video, and digital media to explore what they call “the transportation of place” — situations in which one limited or isolated place strongly resembles another distant one. The primary focus of their work is Traditional notions of place, in which culture and geographic location neatly coincide, are being challenged by legacies of slavery, colonialism, holocaust, immigration, tourism, and mass-communication.
Feb 23, 6:00pm: Robert Fichter, Professor of Art, FSU, will speak about "Italian Memorial Sculpture, 1820-1940," a book of original photographs by Fichter and collaborator Robert Freidus (with commentary by Fred Licht and others). These works, drawn from cemeteries and historical sites in northern and central Italy, range from conventional Neoclassicism through ever more astonishing forms of realism, informed in turn by Symbolism and Art Deco.
Feb. 20, 1:30 pm: Dr. Carol Crown will conduct a walking tour of the exhibition which she curated for the University of Memphis Museum of Art: Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South. The exhibition is hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts during the Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival, and presents the vivid artwork of non-mainstream painters and sculptors inspired by the tenets of evangelical Christianity and its social and cultural milieu in the southeastern United States. The exhibition features works by artists of wide acclaim, including Howard Finster, Sister Gertrude Morgan, William Edmondson, Clementine Hunter, Joe Minter, Elijah Pierce, William Thomas Thompson, and Myrtice West. Coming Home! will be at the Museum from February 18 through March 27, 2005.
Feb. 3, 7:00pm: Carolee Schneemann, a multidisciplinary artist who has transformed the definition of art, especially with regard to discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender.
Jan. 27, 6:30 pm: Jeffrey Chipps Smith (Kay Fortson Professor in European Art, University of Texas, Austin) speaking on "The Queen of Heaven and Her Bishop: Piety in Late Fifteenth Century Germany"
Jan. 14, 4:30P.M.: Thomas Sokolowski, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, speaks on "Andy Warhol: The Art of Camouflage" Fine Arts Building, Room 249.
2004
Nov. 18, 6:30 P.M.: Kristine Stiles, Associate Professor, Duke University, who will address " Crazy Horse and the Pottery Barn: Mapping the Enduring Nature and Changing States of Art Through Equine Imagery."
Sept. 23, 2004 Joshua Levine, multi-media and performance artist (New York) and Ariel Guzik, artist, engineer and musician (Mexico City). Three of Mr. Levine's "Trans_gen_ic" Creatures, along with Mr. Guzik's "Ensamblaje de percusiones aracnidas" (spider percussion ensemble), will be on view in "Art, Technology, and the Future" (Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Sept. 18 - Dec. 5).
Oct. 7, 2004 Diane Burko (B.F.A., Skidmore School, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., M.F.A., 1969, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) is perhaps most often recognized for her recent works on the study of volcanoes. After a long career of landscape painting, she sought a new, more thrilling and sometimes more dangerous subject matter. Her volcanic images interpret the movements of lava and water which have similar flowing patterns and massive steam cycles are created when they collide, as in Palami Pali # 4 (2001) or Kilauea’s Overflow, Hawaii #1 (2000). Burko has been included in major public collections in institutions such as the Art Institute of Chicago and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, receiving grants and fellowships—most recently The Bessie Berman Grant, The Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia, 2002. The artist is one of the participants in "Terrestrial Forces" opening the following evening from 7-9pm.
Oct. 28, 7:00 P.M.: Robert Peters, artist, explores how language and other institutional structures shape perception and experience in his installations, performances, artist's books, drawings, and audio works. Peters often collaborates with non-artists, including historians, decorators, anthropologists, economists, magicians, critics, architects, etc., seeking in this way to broaden the scope of the work and to close the gap between "art" and "life."