Eisenman’s exhibitions have taken the shape of installations of paintings, drawings, collages, assemblages, found objects and murals. These pieces are lampoons of autobiographical situations where real life mixes with pop culture, then turns to fantasy. She is represented by Leo Koenig Gallery in New York.

For more information go to http://www.leokoenig.com/artist/view/443

This lecture has been made possible through the generous support
of Martin and Laurie Cox

Breuer, a German born artist who now lives in Upstate New York is a recent Guggenheim fellowship recipient. He teaches at Bard College and makes “photographic” images without using a camera. Exhibiting widely throughout the United States and Europe
, Breuer is represented by Von Lintel Gallery in New York.

for more information go to http://www.vonlintel.com/links/Breuer-index.html

This lecture is in conjunction with Marco Breuer: Principles of Extraction, an exhibition at the Pollock Gallery October 27 through December 6, 2008.

Hope Ginsburg received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art (1996) and a Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007). She is currently an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has exhibited her work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Baltimore Museum of Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, SculptureCenter, Socrates Sculpture Park, and at Kunst-Werke in Berlin.

Lyle Ashton Harris, often the subject of his own Polaroid photographs, explores aspects of his own life through the characters that he portrays. His work blurs the line between masculinity and femininity and questions social stereotypes of race and sexuality. Exhibiting widely throughout the United States and Europe
, he is represented by CRG Gallery in New York.

For more information go to http://www.crggallery.com/artists/lyle-ashton-harris/

Julie Ault (In conjunction with Collecting and Collectivity Exhibition)
February 14, Meadows Museum, 6:30
Julie Ault is an artist who frequently assumes a curatorial role as a form of practice, individually and collaboratively organizing exhibitions, multiform projects and publications. Her work emphasizes interrelationships between cultural production and politics. She is the co-author of Critical Condition: Selected Texts in Dialogue, (2003) with Martin Beck and the editor of Alternative Art New York 1965–1985 (University of Minnesota Press and The Drawing Center, New York, 2002), an in-depth history of New York’s alternative art scene. Ault co-founded Group Material, a New York-based artists collaborative that produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics between 1979 and 1996. She has collaborated with Martin Beck to create projects including Social Landscape at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, 2004, and the exhibition Outdoor Systems, Indoor Distribution at the NGBK, Berlin, 2000. She has taught at Ecole Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva, UCLA, the Rhode Island School of Design, CalArts, and the Cooper Union. Ault’s visit is co-sponsored by a Meadows Foundation grant for her participation in the Collecting and Collectivity Symposium being held in conjunction with the College Art Association national conference in Dallas.

Roger Tibbetts, CSII Symmetry, etching and aquatint printed in white ink on black Hanji chine collé, 2006

Roger Tibbetts, Thursday, March 6, Meadows Museum, 6:30 PM

Roger Tibbetts is an artist working In sculpture and painting to explore patterns of shape. He is a professor of Fine Arts at Massachusetts College of Art and has exhibited at the Bernard Toale Gallery In Boston, the Ruggiero Gallery in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Rose Museum at Brandeis University. He has received two NEA Individual Artist Grants, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant. He received his Diploma in Art from Wolverhampton College of Art and his Higher Diploma in Art from the Chelsea School of Art, both in England before relocating to the U.S., where he earned his MFA at the Yale University School of Art.