Visiting Artist Schedule 2008

Spring 2008

Richard Notkin: Ceramics – RESCHEDULED - new date:February 6
Christoph Heinrich: Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, DAM - February 12
Lita Albuquerque: Installation, sculptor, environmental artist – March 4
Andrea Polli: Digital – March 18
Karen Kunc: Printmaker – April 1
Carlos Runcie Tanaka: Ceramics/Multimedia – April 15
Beth Lipman: Artistic Director at JMKAC (Kohler) - April 22

NOTE NEW LOCATION in Fleming Law Rm. 155
All lectures begin at 7:00pm

Richard Notkin – new date: February 6
Notkin is deeply influenced by the centuries-old tradition of Yixing pottery from which he has adopted the precise working methods and a penchant for trompe l'oeil; but uses his artwork as an extension of his conscience. For nearly twenty years he has used the teapot format to focus on military misadventures and questionable foreign policy around the world with particular focus on nuclear weaponry and energy. He has won several awards, including National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and a Jerry Metcalf Foundation Artist Fellowship.

Christoph Heinrich – February 12
Christoph Heinrich becomes the DAM's second-ever Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.  Prior to relocating to Denver, Heinrich was the chief curator of the Modern and Contemporary Wing at the Hamburg Kunsthalle. Heinrich has an impressive resumé of exhibitions he's curated, notably Andy Warhol - Photography, which traveled from Hamburg to the United States in 1999. A German scholar and art historian with serious academic credentials, Christoph is a refreshing addition to the Denver art scene.

Lita Albuquerque - March 4
Ms. Albuquerque is one of the rare artists and humanists who are responsible for thoughtfully and imaginatively placing the elemental concepts for a living, functional cosmology of 21st century culture within public consciousness. Her newest ephemeral Earth Art work THE POLE PROJECT, a star map of blue diameters on ice is planned for installation at both the North and South Poles later this year. Ms. Albuquerque received her B.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Her work is included in the archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and is collected by prominent museums and Foundations, such as: the Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Getty Trust.

Andrea Polli – March 18
Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New York City her work addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society. She is interested in global systems, the real time interconnectivity of these systems, and their effects on individuals. Most recently she is working in Antarctica through the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Ms. Polli is the recipient of The Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) Cox Family Visiting Aritst Fellowship and will be working (Spring '08) at the Boulder campus.

Polli is Director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program at Hunter College.  She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Karen Kunc – April 1
Ms. Kunc’s prints addresses issues of the landscape and natural surroundings as direct influences of her home in Nebraska, daily experiences and viewpoints of the plains landscape. For 20 years Karen has remained dedicated to her process, through scores of editions, the circumspect evolution of imagery and capricious print world. She has cleverly avoided inertia and repetition, and has developed a technical fluency to match her imagination. Karen is a Professor of Art at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work has been exhibited extensively including; the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Nebraska, the Salo Art Museum, Finland and the Woman’s Studio Workshop in New York.

Carlos Runcie Tanaka – April 15
Peruvian-Japanese installation artist, Runcie-Tanaka traces his artistic roots to the ceramic traditions of Hamada and Bernard Leach and has blossomed in such diverse media as stone, paper, video, photography, and glass. Crabs are the artist’s trademark and as one critic notes his alter ego “moving so quickly, digging holes in the sand searching for water and shelter, leaving tiny balls or spheres on the shore, resting in a hole to generate new energy”. It is not surprising that in his hands the symbolic creature of the crab emerges from a flat piece of paper. Tanaka's work is in public and private collections in the Americas and Italy, and in the Museum of Modern Art in Milan.

The Visiting Artist Program has been a vital component of the Department of Art & Art History since 1972. Each year, 8–10 nationally recognized artists present diverse ideas and their body of work during their visit to the Boulder campus. During their stay, artists give a public lecture, teach a seminar class, participate in a recorded interview and provide individual critiques with graduate students. All lectures in this series are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Valerie Albicker at (303) 492-2539.

We would like to thank our students for making this programming possible with funding from Art and Art History Student Activities Fees. In addition, we thank The Boulder Outlook Hotel for their continued support and donations to the program.