Visiting Artist Colloquium
Fall 2024 Visiting Artist Colloquium Artists. Left to right: Lola Sheppard, View west of the large outdoor space for celebrations and a fire pit for ceremonies (detail), Richard Rezac,Chigi, Pamphili, 2019, aluminum, painted cast bronze and woven cotton, 25.5 x 26.5 x 10.5 inches (detail), Priya Kambli, Soha and Objects of Worship (detail).
Each year a series of visiting artists talk about their work and studio practice. each event begins with a lunch at 12 noon. The talks start at 12:30 and last roughly 45 minutes with additional time for a Q&A. All colloquium talks will take place on the second floor bridge of Whittier hall.
Updated August 21, 2024.
FRIDAY, September 27, 2024
Richard Rezac: Sculpture: Influence, Context, Process
https://www.richardrezac.com/
His sculpture is reliant on a deliberative process with each work, which allows for an ongoing re-definition, however subtle. All of his sculpture has originated from drawing with the aim of synthesis and simplification. He has received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, among others. Since 2000, he has had 32 solo exhibitions,.
His sculpture is in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery, among others. Until his retirement in 2019, he was Adjunct Full Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in both the Painting and Sculpture Departments.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Lola Sheppard
https://lateraloffice.com/filter/Office/TEAM
Lola Sheppard is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, ON, Canada, and is also a Director of InfraNet Lab, a non-profit research collective, founded in 2008, which probes the spatial by-products of contemporary resource logistics.
Lola Sheppard is committed to architecture’s new relationship to social and ecological possibilities – not just solutions. Her research exists at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. It privileges architecture as a mutable territory that is formed out of and responsive to its history and environment. Much of her recent work and teaching has focused on the role of architecture, infrastructure, and the public realm in the unique and challenging context of Arctic Canada.
Friday, November 15, 2024
Priya Suresh Kambli
https://www.priyakambli.com/
Priya Kambli was born in India. She moved to the United States at age 18 carrying her entire life in one suitcase that weighed about 20 lbs. She began her artistic career in the States and her work has always been informed by this experience as a migrant.
She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette and continued on to receive a Masters degree in Photography from the University of Houston. She is currently Professor of Art at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. In 2008 PhotoLucida awarded her a book publication prize for her project Color Falls Down, published in 2010.
