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Events Archive
2009-10
September 1– December 5, 2009, noon- 6 p.m., Tuesday – Sunday,
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
THE LANGUAGE OF THE NUDE:
FOUR CENTURIES OF DRAWING THE HUMAN BODY
Old Master Drawings from the Crocker
Art Museum
http://www.reed.edu/gallery/
September 6, 6:30 p.m., Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
BRODY CONDON: WITHOUT SUN MODIFICATION
Condon stages three successive performances beginning at 6:30 pm. Condon explores the human body’s
gestures in extremis, creating visionary explorations of the body in the throes of psychoactive
and transformative events.
Brody Condon
http://www.reed.edu/gallery/
September 6, 6:30 p.m., Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery anteroom
ANTOINE CATALA: VIDEO PORTRAITS FOR VERTICAL TELEVISIONS
Catala uses digital and analog technology to explore the human body as an ecstatic, revelatory
organism, synthesizing the corporeal and the technological.
Antoine Catala
http://www.reed.edu/gallery/
Tuesday, September 15, 6:30 p.m., Psychology 105 lecture hall
Curator's Talk
Crocker Art Museum Curator William Braezeale lectures on the exhibition, refreshments served, followed by late viewing hours at the Cooley Gallery.
Tuesday, September 29, 7 p.m., Art Building gallery
Kaspar Locher Summer Creative Scholarship presentations
Thursday, October 8, 7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Monday, October 26, 7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Renowned Renaissance Art Historian David Rosand, Meyer
Shapiro Professor of Art History, Columbia University, presents "Things Never Seen: Graphic
Fantasy and the Dreaming Draftsman."
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website
Wednesday, October 28, Kaul Auditorium
Lunch with art majors.
Monday, November 2, 6:30 p.m. , Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery
Calling All Souls
Join Cooley Gallery curator Stephanie Snyder and PICA Visual Art Program Director Kristan Kennedy for a conversation about the contemporary projects by Brody Condon and Antoine Catala.
Wednesday, November 4, 7 p.m., Psychology 105 lecture hall
Thursday, November 12, 5:30 p.m., Psychology 105 lecture hall
Kenneth Haltman
Wednesday, February 24, 7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Terry Winters public lecture (Ostrow Distinguished Visitor)
2007-08
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 7 p.m., Vollum lecture hall
Lucy Orta
Listen to the lecture
Download poster
Saturday, March 8, 2008, 4 p.m., Psychology 105 Auditorium
Professor Martin Powers, the Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Art
and Visual Cultures, The University of Michigan
"China, Roger Fry, and the Cultural Politics of the Brushstroke"
The term "modernism" in art is often conflated with "Western": modernism IS "Western" modernism. Either term calls to mind the 19 th century rejection of European Classicism. No longer hindered by Classical rules of illusionism and finish (as the story goes), modern artists were free to pursue personal expression by manipulating the formal and material properties of paint, especially color and expressive line. The chief architect of modernist theory in the 20 th century was Roger Fry, but Fry, a socialist, designed his theory to be global. His goal was to replace parochial European theories of ideal beauty with an aesthetic system at once modern and universal. Since Fry's modernism advocated the rejection of post-Renaissance artistic values, he didn't conceive modernism as especially "Western." Indeed, he advocated the abandonment of all "that cumbrous machinery of merely curious representation" which modernist critics associated with the western tradition at that time As an alternative Fry promoted a variety of Asian theories and practices, such as the calligraphic line and the gestural brush stroke. Yet today, formalism and its artistic values are universally accepted as an embodiment of modern, "Western" values. How did Euramerican historians manage to cleanse Fry's hybrid theories of all ethnic impurities? This paper will survey the cultural politics of modernism to better understand how self-referential artistic practices developed across Eurasia came to be configured as emblematic of "the West.
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 1-4 p.m., Art Building 201
Mary Weatherford,
Painter
Seminar
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 5:30 p.m., Bio 19
Professor Bryan J. Wolf, Jeanette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American
Art and Culture at Stanford University
"Teapots and Air Pumps: Science, Sentiment and Painting in the 18th Century."
