Vera Lutter on Gerhard Richter: May 7

Vera Lutter on Gerhard Richter
May 7, 2007 6:30pm
Dia Art Foundation, 548 West 22nd Street

Vera Lutter lives in New York and was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1960. Her photographs have been exhibited at Dia:Beacon (2005); the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2005); Kunsthaus Graz (2004); Kunsthalle Basel (2001); and Dia Art Foundation, New York (1999).

Gerhard Richter's Six Gray Mirrors (2003) is on view at Dia:Beacon.

Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors.
Tickets are available at the lecture only.


Artists on Artists.
Made possible by a grant from Art for Art’s Sake, New York, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, this series, established in 2001, highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia’s collection and exhibition programs.

www.diacenter.org

Adrian Piper: Everything will be taken away: May 1 & 2

Everything will be taken away: Adrian Piper
Cooper Union (May 1) and NYU (May 2)

Don't just passively look at art - LOOK AT YOURSELF and BE ART.

TUESDAY, MAY 1 AND WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 are the only 2 days to get artist Adrian Piper’s henna text, Everything Will Be Taken Away. Applied directly on the forehead, in reverse, the temporary tattoo lasts about 10 days. Both a promise and a threat, it encourages reflection on memory and what we consider to be "everything."

BE PART of this seminal philosophical art performance, see yourself and the world differently, and meet new people - nothing strikes up a conversation more than wearing art on your head!

Tuesday, May 1, 11am – 7pm, Cooper Union
51 Astor Place (btw 3rd and 4th Ave). On the porch, moved indoors if bad weather.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 11am- 7pm, NYU
Steinhardt Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant Street (9th St. betw 3rd and 2nd Aves), Room 101 (Near the Astor stop on the 6 Train)

You can just show up at the sites, but first preference will be given to those that register at events@creativetive.org. Please send your name, email, date, and how you heard about the project.
Looking forward to reading you soon!


Things You Should Know:
* the henna should last about 10 days
* the text is written in reverse so it can be read in the reflection of a mirror
* participants may contribute to a daily blog and are required to keep a journal to record their thoughts during the project.
At the end of 1 year, performers will be asked to look at their journals and share with the artist their fresh reflections on the experience.

The Artist
Everything #10 is the tenth rendition of the ongoing series the Piper began in 2003, but the first on the body. The simple prose has been displayed in a variety of media including sandwich boards and on personal photographs that have been photocopied, printed and erased. Contingent upon the context and relationship to the audience, the sentence reveals new aspects of its potential meanings with each adaptation. The endurance and repetition of the phrase is crucial to the series and the relationship to Piper’s writings and philosophical work. A student and teacher of philosophy and meta-ethics, Piper often employs Hindu imagery and concepts.

Berlin-based Adrian Piper (born 1948, NY) is a first-generation conceptual artist whose work has consistently utilized representation, political dissonances, and discourses relating to ethnicity and gender.

Read More
Check out the article in Time Out and more about this project and the other 5 performances on our website.

http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/performance/piper.html

Lisa Yuskavage: May 3

Lisa Yuskavage
May 3, 2007
6:30pm at The New School
John Tishman Auditorium / 66 West 12th Street

Brash, sensual, monstrous and lovely—sometimes all at once—Lisa Yuskavage's paintings and drawings have enchanted and startled viewers since her first New York solo show in 1993. Known for her extreme and provocative depictions of women, Yuskavage creates virtuoso, jewel-tone paintings that blend high and low aesthetic influences. She has recently turned in a more complex psychological direction with a series of investigations of symbiotic relationships, which strike a delicate balance between tenderness and violence, and between the sacred and the profane. Her exaggerated figures of the 1990s have evolved into the contemplative protagonist of the painting Persimmons, lost in thought amidst a sunny still life of flowers and ripe fruit, or the two figures in Imprint (2006), who seem to meld into one another. Acknowledging the influence of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne and other classical works depicting passionate struggles between two people, Yuskavage's quiet power plays take place against dreamy sfumato backdrops or within cozy, close-color interiors.

http://www.publicartfund.org/pafweb/talks/talks-s07.htm

Patty Chang on Louise Bourgeois at Dia: April 16

Patty Chang on Louise Bourgeois
April 16, 6:30pm
Dia Art Foundation, 548 West 22nd Street

Born in 1972 in San Francisco, New York-based artist Patty Chang has had solo exhibitions at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2005); the Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden (2001); and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2000).

Admission is $6; $3 for members, students, and seniors.
Tickets are available at the lecture only.

A range of works by Louise Bourgeois are on view at Dia:Beacon.

Artists on Artists.
Made possible by a grant from Art for Art’s Sake, New York, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, this series, established in 2001, highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia’s collection and exhibition programs.

www.diacenter.org

Alex Katz: April 4

View Webcast of Talk: http://www.newschool.edu/majorevents/webcasts.aspx?s=1#katz


6:30pm at The New School
John Tishman Auditorium / 66 West 12th Street

In 1977, Alex Katz created a monumental frieze featuring multistory headshots of glamorous women on the wraparound advertising space of a building at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue in Times Square. It happened to be one of the very first projects of the Public Art Fund, which was founded that same year, and was also the first time that Katz had created a work on such a heroic scale; he later described it as "one of the big kicks" of his life. One of the most influential painters of our time, Katz came onto the New York art scene in the late 1950s, at the height of Abstract Expressionism, and his iconic style of painting took that movement's monumental proportions and flat surfaces into uncharted, representational territory. Characterized by reductive imagery and rich hues, Katz's vibrant canvases employ the most economic means to lovingly portray the people and places in his life, from Maine seascapes to New York cocktail parties, from portraits of poets and artists to his most famous subject, his wife, Ada. Interested in the gestures and colors that characterize a fleeting moment, Katz has said, "I'm just trying to see the world I live in, not the world that someone else lived in, to get into the present tense and see where I am."