Art & Art History News - November 1, 2021
Events
Tomorrow!! Tuesday, November 2, 2021 at 6:30 PM
Livestream lecture on听
About the artist:听Althea Murphy-Price鈥檚 work is inspired by the social implication of beauty and its relationship to female identity, women, and culture. Topics of real and false, decoration, and imitation are explored in two and three-dimensional working methods, using traditional and non-conventional approaches to printmaking, and sculpture. Her artwork has been shown widely throughout the country as well as internationally.
Artist Talk: Uncanny Times: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Scholarship Fundraiser
Faculty News
Megan O'Grady, Assistant Professor of Critical and Curatorial Studies
New York Time Style听Magazine: The Greats
Celebrates four talents 鈥 an actress, an artist, a playwright and a fashion designer 鈥 who have helped make and change the culture.
GLENN LIGON
"For over 30 years, the artist has been making work that speaks to American history 鈥 ambiguous, open-ended, existentially observant. At a time in which the fundamentals of fact and fiction are being questioned, his art captures the truth of a culture in decline."
Read Megan O'Grady's recently published article about artist, Glenn Ligon.
Image detail:听Ligon鈥檚 鈥淩u虉ckenfigur鈥 (2009), one of the artist鈥檚 trademark neon sculptures.听Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ICA Boston. 漏 Glenn Ligon. Courtesy of the artist; Hauser & Wirth, New York; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Thomas Dane Gallery, London; and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Student News
On View in the VAC: Recalibration
The current exhibition of work by BFA and BA students听in Sculpture and Post Studio Practice is now on view through Nov. 4
2nd floor, "Garrison Roots Gallery"
Featured artists:
Olivia Bode
Shloka Dhar
Harper Herman
Xiaoxiao Strong