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Art & Art History News - News, March 7, 2023

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Pamela Beverly-Quigley

TONIGHT! Pamela Beverly-Quigley: Practicum Speakers Series

Tuesday, March 7 at 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Beverly-Quigley has a background in printmaking, painting, encaustic painting, and photography Her works range from small intimate pieces to large-scale installations.  Layers are intentionally revealed or obscured to convey the feeling of the abstract quality of memory and time.  In her latest project, revolving around the once-expansive Great Salt Lake, she directs her focus outwards, likening the landmark’s quiet decay to forgotten valleys of the human experience. 

Beverly-Quigley exhibits her work both nationally and internationally. Since graduating from The University of Colorado Boulder, she has taught art and/or design at Weber State University, Utah and has been a guest lecturer at numerous institutions including The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and The University of Hawaii-Monoa.

This series explores strategies to forge a sustainable, productive, fulfilling career in the arts. Speakers will discuss the trajectory and evolution of their art practices. Talks are free and open to the public. STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS FROM ALL MAJORS AND FIELDS ARE WELCOME. For more information, contact the series coordinator Martha Russo, mrusso@colorado.edu

Lenka Clayton

Lenka Clayton: Visiting Artist Lecture

Tuesday, March 14 at 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Complex, Auditorium - 1B20
1085 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Lenka Clayton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work considers, exaggerates, and alters the accepted rules of everyday life, extending the familiar into the realms of the poetic and absurd. In previous works, she has searched for and photographed every person mentioned by name in a German newspaper; worked with artists who identify as blind to recreate Brancusi’s Sculpture for the Blind from a spoken description, and reconstituted a lost museum from a sketch found in an archive. Clayton is the founder of An Artist Residency in Motherhood, a self-directed, open-source artist residency program that takes place inside the homes and lives of artists who are also parents. There are currently over 1,000 artists in residence in 62 countries. Recent exhibitions include Fruit and Other Things (2019) at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Object Temporarily Removed (2017) at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Apollo’s Muse (2019) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art NY and The Grand Illusion, at the Lyon Biennial, France (2020). In 2017 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum commissioned a major new work by Clayton and collaborator Jon Rubin, entitled A talking parrot, a high school drama class, a Punjabi TV show, the oldest song in the world, a museum artwork, and a congregation’s call to action circle through New York. 

Link to more information about the Spring 2023 lecture series

Mark your calendar for our next lecture:
Keliy Anderson-Staley —  March 21

Faculty News

Anna Tsouhlarakis

Anna Tsouhlarakis, Assistant Professor, Foundations

“Language in Times of Miscommunication,” a new exhibition that presents works by 18 American artists, opened March 4, 2023, at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA).

The exhibition presents artworks that incorporate various forms of language (poetry, speculative fiction and slang), modes of communication (propaganda, protest, social media and advertising) and research (archives, political documents and the news). “Language in Times of Miscommunication” forms a timely exchange about our nation’s divided reality, encouraged by the rise of divisive language and alternative narratives since 2016 — a year that marked a shift in recognizing the fallibility of communication in the United States.

Artists from a range of backgrounds and generations include Kristin Bauer, April Bey, Andrea Bowers, York Chang, Jeremy Dean, Jeffrey Gibson, Jenny Holzer, Christopher Jagmin, Glenn Ligon, Patrick Martinez, Elizabeth Moran, Ann Morton, Polymode, William Powhida, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Horacio Rodriguez, Safwat Saleem and Anna Tsouhlarakis.

Read more about the exhibit in E-Flux

Department Announcements

Xiao Xiao Strong installing BFA exhibit

Bachelor of Fine Arts

The BFA degree in Art Practices is a more specialized degree in studio art. It allows you to take a higher number of courses through the Art & Art History Department. Choose this degree if you want to create a personal portfolio, attend graduate school, want a career directly related to the arts, or are interested in pursuing a teaching career at the college level. 

Application deadline: March 15, 2023

Link to more information & BFA application

J. Benjamin Burney, "Poems Can Fly"

J. Benjamin Burney, MFA / MBA candidate

J. Benjamin Burney has just published his first collection or poems, short stories and art titled Poems Can Fly. You can purchase the limited “Kinfolk Edition” on his website: www.zoid.life 

He is having a book signing event Sunday, March 12th, 3-6 pm at Lawrence & Larimer Boutique (3225 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80206) where he will sign, sell, and perform excerpts from his book. There will be more Boulder-based readings to come, but till then support this artist’s first publication!

Campus News

Madeline's Madeline

Brakhage Center for Media Arts

New Metaphors on Vision
Artist Presentation with Cinematographer Ashley Connor

Fri., March 10, 2023
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Atlas 102

The Brakhage Center for Media Arts is hosting a special visit with Cinematographer Ashley Connor. Ashley Connor is one of New York's most innovative directors of photography who has come to be known for her dynamic imagery. Her experimental vision and breadth of style is manifested in films from Madeline's Madeline to the Miseducation of Cameron Post and music video work for Jenny Lewis, Angel Olson, and Beach House.

Presented in collaboration with Give Us the Camera, (GUT-C), a new collective that exists for filmmakers who are underrepresented and are seeking an inclusive community, networking, skill-sharing, critiques, and screenings.


DISPLACEMENTS (Social Justice in Film)
Curator Series with Jesse Lerner

Mon., March 13, 2023
5:00 PM
Atlas 311

This series of short films, curated by Jesse Lerner, addresses and is framed by varieties of transnational displacements, travels, forced or self-imposed migrations, the experiences of exile, and the global circulations of images, cultures, and commodities. This is a modified version of a longer program that was to have been presented at the Sixteenth Annual Brakhage Symposium, which was – unfortunately- canceled due to Covid-19. Jesse Lerner is a documentary filmmaker and video maker based in Los Angeles. His short films and documentaries have won prizes at film festivals in the United States, Latin America and Japan, and have been shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Sydney Biennale and the Sundance Film Festival.

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