Visiting Artists Winter 2009
All lectures are in held in 5401 Aronoff Center. 5401 Aronoff is located at the University of Cincinnati in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Building on Clifton Court.
Richard Roth
Wednesday, January 14
5:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
Richard Roth is an artist and designer whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 1991 he was the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts. He received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from The Cooper Union. He is the co-editor of the book, Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design and co-author of Color Basics. He is currently a faculty member in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University and Director of Solvent Space, Richmond, Virginia.
Jamie Shovlin
Tuesday, January 20
5:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
Jamie Shovlin is interested in the tension between truth and fiction, reality and invention, history and memory. He was born in England and studied at the Royal College of Art. He is an artist whose work combines extraordinary facility as a draughtsman, printmaker, painter and writer with conceptual complexity and playfulness. Through his projects Shovlin questions how information becomes authoritative and explores the way that we map and classify the world in order to understand it.
Ken Gonzales-Day
Thursday, February 5
5:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
Ken Gonzales-Day lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UC Irvine, and his MA in Art History from Hunter College (C.U.N.Y). Fellowships include: Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP; Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center in Bellagio (Italy); (Latino Studies) American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2008). His book, Lynching in the West: 1850-1935 was published by Duke University Press in 2006. Gonzales-Day is a Professor at Scripps College.
Eric Avery
Wednesday, March 4
3:00 PM
5401 Aronoff
For thirty years Eric Avery has made prints, paper and worked as a physician and psychiatrist. He explores issues such as human rights abuses, social responses to disease (HIV and emerging infectious diseases), death, sexuality and the body. His art-medicine actions have given structural form to the liminal space between art and medicine. Currently, Avery is a consulting psychiatrist at The University of Texas Medical Branch where he works in the HIV and Hepatitis C Clinics.