AMT Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Sam Durant
September 22, 6:15 pm
New School, Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work explores relationships between culture and politics and focuses on such subjects as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium; and the Govett-Brewster Art Galler, New Zealand. His work has been included in the Panamá, Sydney, Venice, and Whitney Biennales. Durant shows with Blum and Poe in Los Angeles, Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, Praz-Delavallade in Paris, and Sadie Coles Gallery in London. In 2006, he compiled and edited a comprehensive monograph of Black Panther artist Emory Douglas’ work. He has co-organized numerous group shows and artists benefits and is a co-founder of Transforma, a cultural rebuilding collective project in New Orleans. Durant teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
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