Art & Art History News - December 5, 2023
Upcoming Events
Nan Goldin: Visiting Artist Lecture
Join us for an incredible evening with renowned photographer Nan Goldin at CU Boulder's Visual Arts Complex. This in-person event will take place at the Department of Art & Art History auditorium, 1B20. Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the most influential artists of our time!
This is a ticketed event and seating is limited.
Nan Goldin, the pioneering photographer and campaigner against the billionaires who fuelled the US opioid epidemic, has topped an annual ranking of the contemporary art world’s most influential people and organizations. Goldin took the number one spot on the 2023 ArtReview Power 100 list.
Goldin’s work has documented LGBTQ+ subcultures and the Aids crisis, and includes the seminal 80s photography collection The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, in which lovers and strangers meet, cavort, party and fight in the beaches, bars and cars of Provincetown, Boston, New York, Berlin and Mexico. Her photography has often drawn directly on her life and her circle of friends, which has included bohemians, addicts and other self-made artists.
In 2017 Goldin founded the advocacy group Pain (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) after her own addiction to OxyContin. The group puts pressure on museums and other arts institutions to end collaborations with the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma, which was central to the opioid epidemic.
Image: Norman Jean Roy
Department Announcements
Advanced Ceramics exhibition
The Advanced Ceramics class will have an exhibition, “Something for Somewhere,” in the VAC first-floor lobby from December 12-15. We will have an opening on Thursday, December 14th, 4-5 pm; everyone is welcome.
Artists include: Nytalya Berke, Emily Conklin, Jessica Crumpler, Annabelle Farris, Christopher Fleischmann, Raven Hopgood, Taylor Nguyen, Sissy Nunziata, Brooke Schuh, Jack Shubin, Katie Sieker, Madison Spence
Image credit: Katie Sieker
Birds of Prey. Artist-in-Residence talk with Cody Norton
Birds of Prey
December 7th at 4:00 PM
Brakhage Center for Media Arts, ATLAS 311
On December 7 at 4 PM for an artist talk and conversation about work made by Cody Norton, an MFA candidate in Sculpture & Post-studio Practice and the 2023 Brakhage Center artist-in-residence.The Brakhage Center for Media Arts’s AIR Program, established in 2021, is inspired by the exquisiteness of Stan Brakhage’s engagement with, and integration of, found footage, including scientific and other archival materials Brakhage Center residents receive a studio at the Brakhage Center, and a stipend, and with both the archival film collections, and the Stan Brakhage Papers, held in Rare and Distinctive Collections. Cody Norton’s presentation is titled “Birds of Prey: Acts of Reconstruction.”