Vermont College of Fine Arts invites area residents to a series of lectures by visiting artists, August 2-4, and to a series of student exhibitions, August 4-8. The events are held in coordination with the MFA in Visual Art program at VCFA.
The graduating student exhibitions can be viewed at the T.W Wood Gallery & Arts Center, located in College Hall at 36 College Street. Exhibitions are open to the public Wednesday, August 5th through Saturday, August 8th from 9am to 5pm. In addition, exhibitions will be open Tuesday evening, August 4th, immediately following Shirley Tse’s lecture, and Thursday evening, August 6th, following Mary Lum’s lecture.
The lectures will take place in Noble Lounge on the Vermont College of Fine Arts campus, and are open to the public and free of charge. The schedule is as follows:
Leslie Hewitt Sunday, August 2nd 7 – 8:15pm
Riffs on Real Time
Leslie Hewitt uses photography, sculpture and film to challenge the representation and organization of social meaning. Hewitt uses the camera as a tool to reposition ones view, subtly disrupting the window effect and expectations of a photographic document. She engages architectural space and the fragmentation of time through photographic and sculptural means. In exploring the "revolution embedded" in photography and film, her work addresses how cultural material is documented, classified and preserved.
Hewitt was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions also include The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX; Artists Space, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; Project Row Houses, Houston, TX; The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, D’Amelio Terras, New York; Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland and Thomas Dane, London, United Kingdom.
Hewitt received her MFA from Yale University in 2004 and her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2000. She attended New York University as a Clark Fellow for Africana/Cultural Studies, 2001-02.
Shirley Tse Tuesday, August 4th 8:10 – 9:25pm
Shirley Tse will be discussing her work.
Shirley Tse's sculpture, installation and photography explore the mutability of materials--in particular, plastics--and their relationship to contemporary artistic, environmental and political conditions. Her work has been exhibited at the 2002 Sydney Biennial, the Biennial Ceara America (Brazil, 2002), the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan, Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, SFMOMA, and both the New Museum of Contemporary Art and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center(MoMA) in NYC. Her work is profiled in the comprehensive overview of contemporary sculpture Sculpture Today (2007). She was an artist-in-residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1995), the Banff Center (Alberta, Canada) (1998), and Capp Street Project in San Francisco (2002). She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2009 and a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship in 2008. She lives and works in Los Angeles and has been a member of the faculty in the Program in Art at CalArts since 2001.
Mary Lum Thursday, August 6th 4:30 – 5:45pm
Edge Conditions
This is a talk about chance encounters with the vagaries of urban space as recorded and revealed through photographs, collage, and drawing.
Mary Lum is an American artist who works with the poetic undercurrents of urban space. She translates her experiences of wandering and driving in cities into drawings, wall drawings, photographs, collages, paintings and artist’s books. She is represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons in Boston, and Galerie Susan Nielsen in Paris. Her recent exhibition at Frederieke Taylor was reviewed in Artforum, Art In America, and Art News. She lives and works in Bennington, VT.
For more information, contact the Visual Art program.