2018-2019 Mills College Art Lecture Series



The Mills College Department of Art and Visual Culture is pleased to announce the lineup of the 2018-2019 Art Lecture Series!


Selected by faculty as well as students in the Studio Art MFA program, this year's series consists of a diverse group of artists and scholars from the Bay Area and beyond with backgrounds in photography, painting, multi-media, performance, conceptual art and more.


THE SPEAKERS


Anna Betbeze
Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 7-8 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall

Anna Betbeze uses the conventions of painting to make new, multi-sensory objects. Describing the experience as “when seeing becomes breathing, stroking, tasting, and sound—often simultaneously," Betbeze suggests an erotic synesthesia at play in her works, that allow them to be sensed as much as they are seen. She has had solo exhibitions at Nina Johnson Miami, Markus Lüttgen Cologne, Luxembourg & Dayan in London, Kate Werble Gallery New York, and Francois Gebaly, Los Angeles. Her work has been shown at institutions such as MOMA PS1, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and among other galleries and institutions around the world.  Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Modern Painters, New York Magazine, Frieze, and The Los Angeles Times. She is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize. Supported by the Corenah Wright Speaker Series.

Catherine Wagner
Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 7-8 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall

Catherine Wagner will lecture in conjunction with the release of her 40 survey monograph Place History and the Archive, as well as the Archæology in Reverse exhibition at Mills College Art Museum. Catherine Wagner works with elements of contemporary society and transforms them into conceptual photographs that investigate culture. Ms. Wagner’s process involves the investigation of what art critic David Bonetti calls "the systems people create, our love of order, our ambition to shape the world, the value we place on knowledge, and the tokens we display to express ourselves." She has received many major awards, including the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowments of the Arts Fellowships among others. Her work is represented in major collections nationally and around the world, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, SFMOMA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art Bologna, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Yale University Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art NY, The Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Museum Folkwang Essen.

Shimon Attie
Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 4:30-5:30 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall

Shimon Attie is an internationally renowned visual artist. His artistic practice includes creating site-specific installations in public places, accompanying art photographs, immersive multiple-channel video and mixed-media installations for museums and galleries, and new media works. In many of his projects, he engages local communities in finding new ways of representing their history, memory, and potential futures. Attie’s work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Miami Art Museum, and The National Gallery of Art, among many others.  Mr. Attie has received fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, The Rome Prize AAR, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Lecture supported by the Corenah Wright Speaker Series.

Nancy J. Troy
Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 7-8 PM
Lucie Stern Hall

Nancy J. Troy is Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art at Stanford University.  She joined the Stanford faculty in 2010, having previously taught at the University of Southern California, Northwestern University and The Johns Hopkins University. A specialist in modern art, architecture and design in Europe and America, Troy is the author of books about Dutch modernism, French decorative art, and the visual culture of haute couture. Her latest book, The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, explores the posthumous circulation of this Dutch painter’s work in both elite and popular spheres. Former editor-in-chief of the flagship journal The Art Bulletin, Troy has received numerous prestigious fellowship awards. In addition to courses that reflect her research interests, she also teaches courses on the connections between art, business and the law, and on the ethical challenges of art conservation practices. Supported by the Jane Green Edowed Lecture in Art History

Luke Butler
Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 7-8 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall

Luke Butler’s work is a continuing investigation into the peculiar reality of popular culture. Inherently disposable, it is all but inseparable from our lives, and is a genuine point of connection between people. His work borrows its universal language and bends it toward subjectivity–to anxiety, masculinity, mortality, and a lifelong fascination with the figures that tell the stories. Butler received his MFA from CCA in 2008. He has held solo exhibitions in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and has been included in numerous group shows, most recently at Anna Kustera, New York and Elizabeth Leach, Portland. Butler currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Supported by the Herringer Graduate Lecture Series.

Lilly McElroy
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7-8 PM
Danfroth Lecture Hall

Lilly McElroy is a photographer and performance artist who uses delightful humour and the absurd to pick apart ideas of culturally sanctified space. Employing performance, video art, photography, and sculpture, McElroy often bluntly enacts turns of phrase as in her series “I Throw Myself at Men” and “California’s Full of Whisky, Women, and Gold”. Through a feminist lens, she examines both the mythos of American west as well as gendered expectations for intimacy and personal space. McElroy received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. She has participated in numerous exhibitions which include solo exhibitions in New York and Chicago as well as international group exhibitions in Chile, Finland, and the UK. Her work is featured in the collections of the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington and the FIGGE Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. She is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art in Manhattan. Lily currently lives and works in Kansas City.Supported by the Herringer Graduate Lecture Series.

Torreya Cummings
Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 7-8 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall

Torreya Cummings is a project-based visual artist working with ideas of space, place and time. Their work ranges from photo and sculpture to installation, performance, and video, with a particular emphasis on making spaces for things to happen, whether that's an action by performers or reflection by visitors. Cummings uses drag aesthetics, hardware store materials, the unsettling relationship of history and fiction, the paradoxes of life in the west, ambivalence, theater tricks, bad illusions, props, sets, and interpretive sites. They participated in Bay Area Now 7 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, have presented performances with Machine Project in LA, Southern Exposure, and the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, among others. Cummings received an MFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts and lives and works in Oakland, CA. Supported by the Herringer Graduate Lecture Series.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 7-8 PM
Danforth Lecture Hall

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto//Faluda Islam\\ is an artist, performer, zombie drag queen and curator of mixed Pakistani, Lebanese and Iranian descent. His work explores complex identities formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. Bhutto unpacks the intersections of queerness and Islam and how it exists in a constant liminal and non-aligned space. Bhutto was curatorial resident at SOMArts Cultural Center where he co-curated, The Third Muslim: Queer and Trans Muslim Narratives of Resistance and Resilience and is a fall artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Bhutto is currently based in the Bay Area from where he received his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in the summer of 2016. Today he works as a teaching artist, community arts facilitator and part time unicorn in San Francisco. Supported by the Herringer Graduate Lecture Series. 

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