Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Fall 2025
Visiting Artist Lecture Series for Fall 2025
Mina Elison
Monday, September 15th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Mina Elison is a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi curator who was born and raised in Kailua on the island of O‘ahu. With generational ties to South Kona on Hawai‘i, Mina currently serves as Curator at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Kona, Hawai‘i, where she curates exhibitions and programming featuring local and international artists working in diverse media from kapa to film. She sees the gallery as a classroom, laboratory, and gathering space which inspires exploration, reflection, and healing; art can be a catalyst for meaningful and challenging dialogue. Mina aims to develop exhibitions which amplify stories and perspectives of those whose voices have been marginalized, suppressed and misrepresented.
Image Credit: Ian Kualiʻi. ‘A‘ole Ke Ki‘i Holo‘oko‘a / Not the Whole Picture (1-3) (detail), 2023. Hand-cut fermented and watermarked kapa with pia verso
Jules Allen
Monday, September 29th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Jules Allen’s photographs, over four decades, express the essential truth that a culture’s power is clearest when presented on its own terms and thus, evocative of the contemporary American experience. His images place subjects, drawn from the richness of an urban black life, within universal paradigms.
Photographer Jules Allen was born in 1947 in San Francisco, CA. He received his BFA and Masters from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA and his MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY. Allen has been the subject of various solo exhibitions, including A Little More Towards the Light, Shadow Image Gallery, New York, NY (1989); In the Ring, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY (1993); and Double Up, Leica Gallery, New York, NY (2012-13). He has also participated in many group exhibitions, including Mean Streets, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (1991); Songs of My People, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1992); Propositions on the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY (2009); and Marching Bands Lecture and Exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2017). Allen currently lives and works in New York, NY.
Jackie Gendel
Monday, October 6th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Much of Jackie Gendel’s recent work makes contradictory use of two of modernity’s most common conventions of image production: serial repetition of form and the sequential image of narrative. She employs both, using them simultaneously to unfold the implied relationship between narrative time and painterly process. Gendel’s early work derived from her background in underground comics, a medium of “sequential image” storytelling, which she drew in the late ’90s for an upstart feminist webzine for teenage girls.
Gendel received her BFA in 1996 from Washington University, St. Louis, MO and her MFA in 1998 from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, Loyal Gallery in Malmö, Sweden and Bryan Miller Gallery in Houston, TX. Her work is included in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT and the Progressive Collection and has been written about in Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times and The New Yorker. The American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded Gendel an Academy Award in Art in 2007. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
David Horvitz
Monday, October 13th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Witty and poetic, the work of David Horvitz meddles with systems of language, time and networks. Eschewing categorization, his expansive, nomadic body of work traverses the forms of photographs, artist books, performances, the Internet, mail art, sound, rubber stamps, gastronomy, and natural environments. His work examines questions of distance between places, people and time in order to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing these distances. Using image, text and objects, his works circulate and operate independently of himself, penetrating ever more effectively the intimate sphere. When encountering his works– in the postal system, libraries, or the airport lost-and-found services– our attention to the infinitesimal, inherent loopholes and alternative logics, and the imaginary comes to the fore. Like lullabies impressed upon our minds, Horvitz deploys art as both objects of contemplation and as viral or systemic tools to affect change on a personal scale. Horvitz makes fictions that insert themselves surreptitiously into the real.
His work was exhibited in venues such as: SITE Santa Fe; High Line Art, New York; MoMA, New York; New Museum, New York; SF MOMA, San Francisco; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; HangarBicocca, Milan; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary; Brooklyn Museum, among others.
Ebitenyefa Baralaye
Monday, October 27th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
Ebitenyefa Baralaye is a ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and educator. His work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. He received a BFA in ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in ceramics from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Baralaye’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Los Angeles), the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco), and the Korea Ceramic Foundation (Icheon). Baralaye has participated in residencies at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, the Hambidge Center, and the Elizabeth Foundation Studio Program. Baralaye’s work was featured in the "Objects: USA 2020" exhibition and catalog. He is currently an assistant professor in the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. Baralaye resides and works in Detroit, MI.
David Velasco
Monday, November 10th at 4:00 PM
Visual Arts Complex auditorium, 1B20
David Velasco is an American editor. He was the editor-in-chief of the art magazine Artforum from 2017 to 2023. He is the editor of Modern Dance, a 2017 series of books on contemporary choreographers published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. He has written texts on a number of artists, including Sarah Michelson, Adrian Piper, and David Wojnarowicz. In 2017, he assisted photographer and activist Nan Goldin establish the activist group P.A.I.N., chronicled in Laura Poitras's Academy Award–nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022).