Thomas Struth, Dallas Parking Lot, Dallas 2001

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Eve Sussman, Production Still-Disintergration at Hydra, 2005

Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation are on the cutting edge of contemporary art – drawing from film, theater, dance and visual art to create interdisciplinary experiences. Their work, which references everything from Spanish painting to Greek modernist architecture and French new wave film, has been shown at galleries and museums around the world. This partnership between SMU, TCU and the Modern Art Museum of Ft Worth will bring two exhibitions, a lecture and a screening of a brand new work in progress to the DFW Metroplex in September of 2010. This project also builds on the inclusion of their work in the Dallas Video Festival in August 2010.

www.rufuscorporation.com

Events planned:

SMU: Meadows Museum
“89 Seconds to Alcazar”
September 12, 2010 – Dec. 12, 2010

The Meadows Museum is embarking on a three-year loan program with the Prado Museum in Madrid. The first loan (that of El Greco’s Pentecost) will be exhibited from September 12, 2010 to January 16, 2011. In order to celebrate this loan program the Meadows Museum has decided to curate an exhibition of works by contemporary artists inspired by the Prado including Sussman’s “89 Seconds to Alcazar”.

“89 seconds” is a single channel looped video inspired by the Prado’s Diego Velasquez painting Las Meninas

In conjunction with the exhibition Eve Sussman will give a lecture at the Meadows Museum on Sept 15 at 6:00pm and will conduct a seminar with SMU students that afternoon.

TCU: Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
Yuri’s Office
September 10 – October 31, 2010
Opening September 18, 7-9pm

Originally exhibited at Winkelman Gallery in New York in June 2009. This exhibition includes a life-sized replica of the office of Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut as well as videos and a photo text piece. This is part of a larger work in progress, White on White – a 60’s era cinema verité thriller, inspired by Goddard’s Alphaville – that moves from Moscow to the Caspian. The starting point of this exhibition was Malevich’s painting White on White, beginning a chain of failed utopias including modernist abstraction, the Soviet Union, and the space race.

Modern Art Museum Fort Worth
Screening of whiteonwhite:algorithmicthriller w/ Q&A to follow
September 14, 2010, 7pm

This screening follows its theatrical premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The film will be powered by code, programmed exclusively for the project, that edits the film in real time culling from a server loaded with over 2,000 film clips, sounds, and narration. The guided nature of the code causes it to pull video and audio, based on voice over and tags written into the metadata of each file and the narrative.  The movie mixes chronology, intertwining beginning, middle or end, never repeating the same way twice.

Andrea Blum, Mudam Summer Cafe 2008, Luxembourg, LX, Luxembourg

Andrea Blum is an artist based in New york City who is Professor of Art /Combined Media at Hunter College/CUNY. In a March-April 2005 article in Parachute, Blum is quoted, “I would like my work to function as an agent to position and de-position.”  Parachute goes on to frame Blum’s persistent interest in creating, “a tension, through the peculiar play of forces maintained by the private and social spheres, in each of her arrangements of architecture or furniture (buildings, houses, gardens and streets, but also libraries, offices, etc.) [She] instills everyday domestic activities (reading as if in your living room, stretching out as if on your couch) in public space.”

Blum was born in New York City and received her education at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts and the Art Institute of Chicago. She has built permanent projects in California, Ohio, Minneapolis, Wisconsin, and Boston, as well as France, the Netherlands, and England. The East 107th St. Recreational Pier is her first permanent project in New York City.

www.andreablum.com

David Cotterrell, Serial Loop (v), 8th January 2009

David Cotterrell is an installation artist working across varied media including video, audio, interactive media, artificial intelligence, device control and hybrid technology. His work exhibits political, social and behavioural analyses of the environments and contexts, which he and his work inhabit.

Over the last ten years, his work has been extensively commissioned and exhibited in North America, Europe and the Far East, in gallery spaces, museums and within the public realm. Recent exhibitions include: Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, War and Medicine at the Wellcome Collection, London and Map Games at the Today Museum of Modern Art, Beijing and Birmingham City Art Gallery.

David is Professor of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and has been a consultant to strategic masterplans, cultural and public art policy for urban regeneration, healthcare and growth areas. He is represented by Danielle Arnaud contemporary art and is currently researching and developing new work with advanced simulation company Rockwell Collins, with the support of an Arts Council England fellowship.

www.cotterrell.com

Alfredo Jaar, The Eyes of Gutete Emerita 1996

Alfredo Jaar is a n artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City.  He was born in Satiago de Chile in 1956.

His work has been shown extensively around the world.  He has participated in the Biennales of Venice (1986, 2007), Sao Paulo (1987, 1989), Sydney (1990), Istanbul (1995), Kwangju (1995, 2000), Johannesburg (1997), and Seville (2006), as well as the Documenta exhibitions (1987, 2002) in Kassel, Germany.

Jaar has had individual exhibitions  in important venues internationally and has created more than fifty Public Interventions around the world.  More than thirty-six monographic publications have been published about his work.  Jaar became a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985 and a MacArthur Fellow in 2000.  In 2006 he received Span’s Premio Extremadura a la Creacion.

www.alfredojaar.net

Scheduled Events

November 17 – 6:30-8:30pm
Arist Lecture
Room 3527
Greer Garson
Owen Fine Arts Center

November 18 – 4:00-7:00pm
Seminar
Room 1720a
Owen Fine Arts Center

November 19 – 4:00-7:00pm
Seminar
Room 1720a
Owen Fine Arts Center

November 20 – 1:00 pm
360-Degree Lecture Series,
Nasher Sculpture Center

Dike Blair was born in Pennsylvania in 1952. Since 1980, his work has been shown in many exhibitions, including group exhibitions such as “Vanishing Point”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; “Let’s Entertain”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; “Elysian Fields”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the “2004 Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Currently a major exhibition of his work, “Now and Again”, is on view at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. Blair is a frequent contributor to publications such as Bomb, Parkett and Flash Art and in 2007 published Again: Selected Interviews and Essays, with Whitewall Press. Since 1997 he has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design.

for more information go to http://www.thing.net/~lilyvac/

R.H. Quaytman is a painter living in New York City. She was a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in 1992 and was a founding member and the Director of Orchard, a cooperative gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Her work is represented by Miguel Abreu Gallery in NYC and Vilma Gold Gallery in London. Her first museum exhibition is currently on view at the ICA in Boston and she will be included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. In addition she is preparing two exhibitions for the fall of 2010: a survey exhibition for the Neuberger Museum, at SUNY Purchase, New York and a project exhibition for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has also been included in group exhibitions at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, Richard Telles, Los Angeles, Queens Museum of Art, The Kitchen, New York as well as the Lódz Biennial, Poland. Her book Allegorical Decoys is published by MER Press and is available at Printed Matter book store. She is currently on the faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Quaytman will join the art historian and critic Rhea Anastas, who was also a member of Orchard to discuss the activities of their collective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on Tues March 23 at 7pm.

For more information about Orchard go to http://www.orchard47.org/

For more information about Quaytman’s work go to http://www.miguelabreugallery.com/R.H.Quaytman.htm

Kate Gilmore is a New York based sculptor best know for her humorous and physically demanding, masochistic performances. In her video work, Gilmore plays the role of the feminine hero, fashionably dressed but ready to knock down walls with high heels or push her neatly made-up face through small openings in plywood. Such strenuous physical feats are metaphorical acts created by the artist to address the challenges that contemporary artists face in today’s art world–specifically female artists. Her work depends on her own trial and error as she tirelessly makes valiant efforts towards success and in the process, in confronted with fear, failure and pain.

Gilmore received her MFA in 2002 from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has exhibited widely in the United States as well as international venues in Turin, Madrid, Liverpool and Berlin. Currently Gilmore is included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial in New York.

For more information go to http://www.kategilmore.com/index.html

Ute Meta Bauer is an Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Program in Art, Culture and Technology at MIT. From 1996 to 2006, she was a Professor of Theory and Practice of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Educated as an artist, Bauer has worked as a curator of exhibitions and presentations on contemporary art, film, video and sound, with a focus on transdisciplinary formats. She was a Co-curator of Documenta11 (2001-2002) in the team of Okwui Enwezor, has been the Artistic Director of the 3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art (2004) and in 2005 curated the Mobile_Transborder Archive for InSite05, Tijuana (MEX)/San Diego (USA). Furthermore Bauer has been the Founding Director of the Office For Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and was the editor of numerous publications in the field of contemporary art, including: “What’s left…What remains? SITAC VI” (Mexico City 2009), “Education, Information, Entertainment. New Approaches in Higher Artistic Education” (Vienna, 2001) META 1 – 4 (Stuttgart, 1992-94), case (Barcelona, 2001; Porto, 2002) and Verksted # 1- 6 (Oslo, 2003-2006).

For more information go to http://web.mit.edu/vap/people/faculty/faculty_bauer.html

A native of New York, Bill Arning, writer, critic, and curator brings more than twenty years experience in the arts to his newly appointed role as the director of the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. Mr. Arning served as director and chief curator at White Columns Alternative Arts Space in New York for over ten years and was a curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center for 9 years. Deemed the “Cowboy Curator of Contemporary Art”, Bill is known for his support of vibrant and progressive exhibitions such as, America Starts Here—Ericson and Ziegler—1985-1995 (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY), AA Bronson’s Mirror, Mirror, Son et lumière and Sensorium at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Mr. Arning received his Masters in Art History from Tufts University in Massachusetts and his Bachelors degree from New York University.

This lecture is organized by the Student Art Association