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NEW ADDITIONAL SPECIAL PROGRAM
SITE SANTA FE PRESENTS A LECTURE BY LIBBY LUMPKIN FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION
WITH
DAVE HICKEY AND JOSIAH MCELHENY
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2001, 5 PM
Santa Fe, NM - SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce a new expanded program
for its upcoming Art & Culture series. In conjunction with its Fourth International
Biennial, SITE Santa Fe is pleased to present a lecture by art historian and
author Libby Lumpkin on Saturday, December 15, at 5 pm. In addition,
following Lumpkin's lecture, there will be a discussion between Dave Hickey,
curator of Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, and
participating artist Josiah McElheny. The event is part of the Art & Culture
series.
TICKET INFORMATION: SEATING IS LIMITED TO 150. Tickets must be purchased
in advance at SITE Santa Fe, or by phone at 505-989-1199. General Admission,
$5; students, seniors, and SITE Santa Fe Members at Friend and Family levels,
$2.50; SITE Santa Fe Members at Supporter level and above, Free, but advance
reservations are required.
Libby Lumpkin is Assistant Professor of Modern Art at the University of Nevada--Las
Vegas (UNLV), and Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art for the Donna Beam
Fine Art Gallery at UNLV. She was the founding curator of the Bellagio Gallery
of Fine Art in Las Vegas, and has served as a visiting professor at Harvard
University, University of California--Santa Barbara, and Umea University in
Sweden. Lumpkin received her MA from the University of Texas--Austin, and
her Ph.D from the University of New Mexico, and has written on design in New
Mexico. Lumpkin publishes widely on art and design, and a number of her essays
have been collected in Deep Design: Nine Little Art Histories (Art
Issues Press, 1999), in which she examines "how" objects make meaning rather
than "why" they exist: " 'How,' " she writes, "is a question of design," which,
in turn, can be interpreted as "the artificial configuration...of visible
materials in the presence of a beholder at particular points in time and space..."
Dave Hickey, recently named a 2001 MacArthur Fellow (commonly referred
to as the Genius Award), is the curator for SITE Santa Fe's Fourth International
Biennial, Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism. Hickey
received a B.A. (1961) from Texas Christian University and an M.A. (1963)
from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a freelance writer, curator,
and lecturer who has been affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
since 1992. His critical essays on art have been collected in two volumes:
The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993) and Air Guitar:
Essays in Art and Democracy (1997). He is the author of many museum exhibition
catalog essays on a variety of artists' work such as that of Josiah McElheny
for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, John Baldessari for the San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, and Vija Celmins for the Philadelphia Institute
of Contemporary Art. Hickey is the recipient of a National Endowment for the
Arts grant (1969) and the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award
for Distinction in Art or Architectural Criticism (1993).
Josiah McElheny's work combines old world craftsmanship--specifically
traditional glassblowing--with provocative conceptual frameworks that reference
historical models and the works of individuals such as Joseph Albers and Frank
Lloyd Wright, and the architects/designers Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffman. His
installation in the Biennial is entitled KŠrtner Bar, Vienna, 1908, Adolf
Loos (White), 2001, is an homage to the Viennese architect/designer, and
was commissioned by SITE Santa Fe. McElheny has taught at the Pilchuk Glass
School and the Rhode Island School of Design, and has been a visiting artist
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
in Boston presented a survey of his work in 1999.
SITE Santa Fe's Fourth International Biennial, Beau Monde: Toward a
Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, curated by Dave Hickey, is on exhibit through
January 6, 2002. SITE Santa Fe's Art & Culture series is partially
supported by The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston, Lannan Foundation, Madelin
Coit and Alan Levin, Bobbie Foshay-Miller and Chuck Miller, and Marlene Nathan
Meyerson.
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