Visiting Artists & Scholars
All lectures are in the Fine Arts Building, Room 249 at 7 pm.
530 Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306
For more info, call (850) 644-6474
February 13 2008 Jeanne Quinn
March 20, 2008 - Steve Kurtz
April 3, 2008 - Mark Klett
September 25 2008 - Alec Soth
Alec Soth is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work is represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Soth's photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007), and Dog Days, Bogotá (2007). Soth is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis and is a member of Magnum Photos. More info at www.alecsoth.com.
October 16 2008 - Julie Heffernan
Julie Heffernan is a painter born in Illinois and now based in New York. Her work is represented by PPOW Gallery in New York City, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, CA and Mark Moore Gallery in LA, CA. In 2007-9 she had solo exhibitions at PPOW Gallery in NYC; Lux Art Institute in Encinitas, CA; Megumi Ogita Gallery in Tokyo, Japan; Catharine Clark Gallery in SF, CA; and Mark Moore Gallery in LA, CA. Heffernan has received a number of grants and fellowships over the years including a Thomas Bennett Clark Prize from the National Academy Museum, NYC in 2008 and the Thomas R. Proctor Prize also from the National Academy Museum, NYC in 2004; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (NYFA), a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and a Fulbright-Hayes Grant to West Berlin. More info at ppowgallery.com.
November 6 2008 - Valerie Hegarty
Valerie Hegarty lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, NY; The Sculpture Center, NY; Museion, Bolzano, Italy; MCA Chicago, Drawing Center, NY; The Nasssau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY; John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; and the Bronx Museum of Art. She was the recipient of the first Campari Commission for New York in 2007; the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2004 and the Tiffany Foundation Grant in 2003. In 2007 Hegarty had a solo exhibition at Museum 52 in London and a solo show at CTRL gallery in Houston, Texas. Upcoming solo exhibitions and projects include: Guild & Greyshkul, NY; Museum 52, London and a group show featuring work from the permanent collection at The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Hegarty is represented by Guild & Greyshkul, NY. More info at guildgreyshkul.com.
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