Art & Art History News - September 4, 2024

Monday, September 9th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
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Anne Wu makes sculptures and installations that draw from the material culture and architectural vernacular of Chinese immigrant neighborhoods. Referencing familiar structures, such as doors, windows, stairs, and railings, her work riffs on existing built environments through fragmentation, abstraction, and rearticulation. 

Solo exhibitions include There Is No Far and No Near at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY) and A Dream Walking at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT). Wu's work has been shown in group exhibitions at the Asia Art Archive in America (Brooklyn, NY), M23 (New York, NY), The Shed (New York, NY), and Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon (New Lebanon, NY), among others. She was an artist-in-residence at the Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program from 2021 to 2022 and the NARS Satellite Residency on Governors Island in 2020. Her work has been published in Sculpture, BOMB, The New York Times, Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Curbed. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2020 and a BFA from Cornell University in 2013. 

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Monday, September 16th at 4 PM
Visual Arts Complex Auditorium, 1B20
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Catherine Prose is a mixed-media artist working in printmaking, painting, drawing, and photography. Interested in the interplay of landscape, environment, and religion, she explores how these elements shape human values towards nature. Her artworks often feature backdrops of both familiar and unfamiliar landscapes, both vast and microscopic. Within these settings, she examines figure-ground relationships influenced by culture and nature.

Prose grew up between the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma and the White Mountains of Arizona. Holding a Master of Fine Arts from Texas Tech University, she joined the faculty of Midwestern State University (MSU) in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 2005. As director of MSU’s Juanita Harvey Art Gallery for over nine years and administrator of the O’Donnell Visiting Artist Program for eight, Prose brings a wealth of experience to her role. Her seventeen-year career in art administration also includes five years at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas.