Art Lectures Series

2009−2010 Lecture Series

All programs will take place in Danforth Lecture Hall, Art Building unless noted.

Pae White
September 30, 7:30pm
Followed by a reception and tour of the exhibition in the Art Museum

Presented in conjunction with Pae White: In Between the Inside-Out on view at the Mills College Art Museum from September 2-October 18, 2009. This exhibition has been co-produced by New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Major support for the production of Pae White’s show has been received from the LEF Foundation, the FOR-SITE Foundation and a San Francisco Arts Commission Organization Project Grant.

Uta Barth* 
October 21, 7:30pm

German-born, American-based artist Uta Barth is among the key recent figures who have brought photography to the prominent position once occupied by painting. Her photographs of interior and exterior, urban and natural environments capture fleeting moments as if glimpsed out of the corner of one's eye, where we become aware of the beauty of everyday light, space, texture and luminous surfaces. Barth's work has been exhibited at museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2004-05.

Nancy E. Green
November 15, 3:00pm

Nancy E. Green is Senior Curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, where she has curated many exhibitions and written extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century fine and decorative art. She is the author of Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts and Crafts. Green is the guest curator for the traveling exhibition, A Room of Their Own: Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections on view at the Mills College Art Museum from November 7 through December 13, 2009.

Patty Chang*
November 18, 7:30pm

Patty Chang received her BA from University of California, San Diego, she currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally at such institutions as the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA; Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece; the Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporian Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland; the Hamburg Kunstverein in Germany and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain.

Trisha Brown
January 29, 2010, TBA

Trisha Brown is widely considered to be the most important choreographer to emerge from the postmodern era. Since graduating from Mills College in 1958 with a degree in dance, Brown has become widely acclaimed for her maverick spirit and ability to push the human body to perform in unexpected ways. Unafraid to challenge new genres, she has choreographed opera, jazz, classical music, and ballet over the course of her storied career. Founding her own company in 1970, Brown explored the terrain of her adoptive SoHo, creating her early dances for alternative spaces including roof tops and walls, and flirting with gravity—alternately using it and defying it. Recognized as a visual artist as well as a dancer, Brown was invited to participate in Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany, garnering much critical acclaim.

Presented in conjunction with the traveling exhibition, Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing, organized by the Walker Art Center, which will be on view at the Mills College Art Museum from January 20-March 14, 2010.

Phil Ross*
February 29, 2010, 7:30pm

Phil Ross received his MFA from Stanford and his BFA from SFAI and is currently a Professor of Sculpture at the University of San Francisco. His creative work resides in the space between art, technology, education, and the history and philosophies of science. Ross has grown and designed biotechnological structures that are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic.

Anthony Discenza*
March 3, 2010, 7:30pm

Anthony Discenza has a MFA in Film and Video from California College of the Arts and a BA in Studio Art from Wesleyan University. His work is directed by a preoccupation with interrupting the flow of information in various formats, primarily in video, but also other media such as computer generated sound, text, and imagery.

Lisa Anne Auerbach*
March 17, 2010, 7:30pm

Lisa Anne Auerbach runs a modest publishing and propaganda empire out of a former stuccolow in south Los Angeles. When she's not on her bike, she's knitting inflammatory, slogan-adorned sweaters and banners, making photographs of overlooked landmarks, and putting small publications out into the big world. She received her MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and her BFA from Photography Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. She is the recipient of a 2007 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists and is represented by Gavlak, West Palm Beach, Florida.

*Lecture made possible by the Herringer Family Foundation

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