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

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

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