Art & Art History News - October 22, 2024

Upcoming Events

Zun Lee: Visiting Artist Lecture

Monday, November 4th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Zun Lee examines the complex role of digital technologies and virtual/social media as tools that mitigate (but also perpetuate) power imbalances in the representation of marginalized communities. Through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens, Lee foregrounds issues of visual literacy and structural competency, as well as ethics and consent in an increasingly crowdsourced, virtualized and surveilled content environment.

Lee has exhibited, spoken and taught at numerous institutions in North America and Europe. His works are widely published and represented in public and private collections around the world. Selected honors and awards include: Guggenheim Fellow (2020), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Practitioner in Residence (2019), Knight Foundation Grantee (2018), Magnum Foundation Fellow (2015), Photo District News Photo Annual Winner (2015), Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook Awards Shortlist (2014), Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch (2014).

Sarah McKenzie: Visiting Artist Lecture

Monday, November 11th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20

Sarah McKenzie holds a BA in film studies from Yale University and an MFA in painting from the University of Michigan. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally, including at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Yale School of Architecture, the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, the Aspen Art Museum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. McKenzie was awarded a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2012 and the 10th Alexander Rutsch Award for Painting in 2019. In Spring 2021, she received the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts to support her prison architecture series.

Beyond her studio practice, McKenzie co-directs Tilt West, a Denver-based arts and culture nonprofit. She also teaches visual art through the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (DU PAI).

William Wallace: Visiting Art History Scholar

Michelangelo & Titian: A Tale of Titans
Friday, November 15, 2024 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Norlin Library, Center for British & Irish Studies (room M549)

Professor Wallace will introduce his new book which relates the compelling story of a forty-year rivalry between the two most celebrated artists of their time: Michelangelo and Titian. This is the story about the entwined lives of two artists who were more attentive and admiring of one another than either would ever admit. While Michelangelo served popes in Rome, from Venice, Titian immortalized the rulers of their time. The two met twice, shared more than a dozen of the same patrons, and lived in a small world of overlapping colleagues, friends, and acquaintances. They grew up, grew famous, and grew old, learning about and from one another, challenging and inspiring one another. Friendly but not friends, Titian and Michelangelo constantly regarded the other and engaged in a longtime competition of one-upmanship. They are the Picasso/Matisse rivalry of their time.

William E. Wallace is the Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Wallace has published more than one hundred articles and essays, and is the author or editor of eight different books on Michelangelo, including the award winning, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting and Architecture (Rizzoli 1998); Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur (Cambridge, 1994); and a biography of the artist, Michelangelo: The Artist, the Man and his Times (Cambridge, 2010), issued in paperback (2011). His most recent book, Michelangelo, God’s Architect (Princeton 2019, paperback 2021) focuses on Michelangelo from age 70 to 89, when the still busy artist realized his greatest masterpiece, the basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome.

Department News & Announcements

Molly Valentine Dierks, Assistant Teaching Professor, Foundations

Recent public installation work (2023-2024) by artist-designer Molly Valentine Dierks is featured in Divide Magazine (Issue 11). Her futuristic tree series & an interview on her hybrid practice with curator Anna Gvozdeva is also currently published in Visual Art Journal, Issue 9 (with accompanying web link).

Link to read the article

Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Fall 2024

Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, November 8 from 4-6PM
CU Art Museum

On view through November 21, 2024

Anna Graef
Ryze Xu
Owen Moon

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