Art & Art History News - October 31, 2023

Monday, November 6, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM in the VAC Auditorium 1B20

Jason Stopa paints work that engages with the potential of gestural abstraction in the digital age. Although he attributes techniques and forms to the history of painting, Stopa’s paintings are situated in contemporary culture, where analog and digital are intertwined. Carrying the notion that painting is “about color as light and light as space.”

Jason Stopa (USA, b. 1983) is a painter and writer living in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from Indiana University Bloomington and his MFA from Pratt Institute in NYC. Recent solo exhibitions include Joy Labyrinth at Morgan Lehman, NYC (2021) and Hanging Gardens at Atelier W Pantin, France (2019). Group exhibitions include Beyond the Black Hole, The Pit, Palm Springs (2022), Shelter From the Storm, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2022), Wayne Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation, at Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, CA (2021), Light (curated by Rico Gatson) at Miles McEnery Gallery in NYC (2021), What's It All About at Jenkins Johnson Projects in Brooklyn (2021). Stopa teaches at Pratt Institute and works for an academic journal at Columbia University.  He is a contributing writer to Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Momus, and artcritical, among other art journals.

Monday, November 13, 2023
4:00-5:30 PM in the VAC Auditorium 1B20

Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Los Angeles. Her work deconstructs technology with material interventions, creating new narratives for hybrid objects that function between human/nonhuman, ancient/future, handmade/autonomous, and beyond power structures rooted in colonialism. They collapse binaries and borders, creating new epistemologies between Earth and Space.

She is an Assistant Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara in Computational Craft and Haptic Media. She was recently given the Creative Capital Award, the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant, the Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Award, the Steve Wilson Award from Leonardo, the International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology, the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Art Prize, and the Craft Futures Grant from Center for Craft. She has exhibited at LACMA, MCASB, Clockshop, Frieze LA, and Blum & Poe Gallery. She has an upcoming solo museum exhibition with the Columbus Museum of Art. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Image: For Submersion is a public artwork by Los Angeles artist Sarah Rosalena commissioned by Clockshop and submerged, in a year of landmark rainfall, at the Los Angeles State Historic Park watershed.

Tuesday, November 14, 4:30pm
Norlin Library, Center for British & Irish Studies (room M549)
1157 18th Street, Boulder, CO 80309

Artistry Reconceived (or, How to Do Art History with Your Hands)

Robert Bailey is an Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Visual Arts at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Art & Language International: Conceptual Art between Art Worlds (Duke, 2016), and he edited and introduced Terry Smith’s One and Five Ideas: On Conceptual Art and Conceptualism (Duke, 2017).