State of the Art: Contemporary Lecture Series featuring Andrea Zittel - April 16, 2009

State of the Art: Contemporary Lecture Series featuring Andrea Zittel
Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.
Frist Center
Auditorium, FREE

The State of the Art lecture series is designed to bring nationally and internationally renowned critics, curators, and artists to Nashville to share their perspectives on current issues and ideas in contemporary art.

Conceptual artist and designer Andrea Zittel conducts experiments that simplify the everyday tasks of our lives. Using her own life as inspiration, she constantly examines and improves her relationship to her domestic and social environment, and ultimately the environments of others as well. Part artist, architect, environmentalist, crafter, nutritionist, engineer, and designer, Zittel possesses an everlasting enthusiasm for her projects.

Zittel received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University and an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial and her 2005 comprehensive survey Andrea Zittel: Critical Space organized by the New Museum and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Zittel received the 2005 Smithsonian American Art Museum’s annual Lucelia Artist Award. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Joshua Tree, California, where her A–Z West enterprises is located.

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State of the Art: Contemporary Issues Lecture Series

State of the Art: Contemporary Issues Lecture Series
October 18 (7:00 p.m.)
November 16 (6:00 p.m.)
Frist Center for the Visual Arts - Nashville, TN Auditorium
FREE


This fall, the Frist Center presents State of the Art, a new lecture series designed to introduce the contemporary art world through presentations by nationally and internationally renowned experts in the field.

Peter Plagens—The Absolute Truth
Thursday, October 18, 7:00 p.m.
Peter Plagens, artist and contributing editor to Newsweek and Artforum, and former art critic and senior writer for Newsweek, will present an overview of the current moment in contemporary art, with a personal, philosophical, and probably quirky viewpoint.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery (New York), Jan Baum Gallery (Los Angeles), Galerie Grashey (Konstanz, Germany), as well as the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem,
N.C.) and Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D.C.). Plagens is a former recipient of National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in painting (1977, 1985) and art criticism (1973), and a senior fellow in the National Arts Journalism Program, Columbia University (1998). He has also held various teaching positions.


Katy Siegel—Contemporary Art in the Age of Extremes Friday, November 16, 6:00 p.m.
Katy Siegel is an associate professor of art history at Hunter College, CUNY, a senior critic at Yale University's School of Art, a contributing editor to Artforum, and a visiting professor at Princeton Univeristy. She is the co-author of Art Works: Money (Thames & Hudson, 2004), and more recently, the curator of the traveling exhibition "High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967-1975," which will go to Europe this fall. She is the author of a major essay on Jeff Koons for his new monograph (Taschen, 2007), and has written widely on contemporary art and artists, including Takashi Murakami, Lisa Yuskavage, David Reed, and Richard Tuttle.