{"id":91297,"date":"2022-08-17T12:41:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/?page_id=91297"},"modified":"2023-05-09T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T14:19:44","slug":"cpls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/id-andrea.cms-devl.bu.edu\/cfa\/visual-arts\/lectures\/cpls\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the School of Visual Arts\u2019 Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series (CPLS) invites renowned professional artists, designers, and critics to engage with the SVA community. Undergraduate and graduate students benefit from exposure to the lecturers\u2019 work, entering into dialogues about the art-making process, as well as benefiting from individual studio visits and critiques. Visiting artist lectures are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><em>Future lectures to be announced.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Past Lectures<\/h2>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2022 - 2023<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h5>Hank Willis Thomas<\/h5>\n<p><strong>November 3, 2022 \u2022 6:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\nAlfred L. Morse Auditorium \u2022 602 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/plRMBoSkgKo\">Recording<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BU School of Visual Arts\u2019 ongoing Contemporary Perspective Lecture Series returned in fall 2022, featuring well-known American artist <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hankwillisthomas.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hank Willis Thomas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in conversation with Hank Willis Thomas Studio collaborator Helen Banach.\u00a0 The pair spoke about Hank Willis Thomas\u2019 work across media and his major new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kingboston.org\/the-embrace\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Boston memorial <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that honors the social justice work and legacy of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Embrace<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, designed with MASS Design Group, was unveiled on the Boston Common on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January 2023, and is intended to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cspark a new public conversation about how to advance racial and economic justice in Boston today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hank Willis Thomas was the featured artist for Fall 2022\u2019s Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture. This important public lecture series launched in 2004 is named in honor of BU School of Visual Arts alumnus Tim Hamill. Hamill Lectures present to the SVA community leading artists who are known for working across artistic disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2019 - 2020<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<h5>Spring 2020 Contemporary Perspectives Artist<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2022\/08\/SVA_cpls_wilson-550x235-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91298\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martha Wilson<br \/>\nIn conversation with Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin<br \/>\n<\/strong>Monday, April 6, 2020 \u2022 <em>cancelled due to pandemic closures<br \/>\n<\/em>Hosted in Partnership with Boston University Kilachand Honors College<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Martha Wilson<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director. For decades, her innovative conceptual practice has utilized photography and video to explore female subjectivity through performative self-portraiture. Transforming her appearance through costumes, make-up, and role-play, Wilson uses her own image as a stand-in for myriad conceptions of femininity, simultaneously embodying and challenging social projections onto women.<\/p>\n<p>Her recent work has been semi-autobiographical in nature, exploring the social effects of aging on women. Combining tongue in cheek humor and rigorous conceptual language, Wilson looks at the all too often overlooked intersection of sexism and ageism in contemporary image culture.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson is the founder of Franklin Furnace Archive art organization, a non-profit dedicated to preserving the legacy of experimental and ephemeral artworks, including artist books, installation art, video, and performance art. She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, and an Obie Award and a Bessie Award for commitment to artists\u2019 freedom of expression. She is represented by PPOW gallery in New York City.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judith K. Brodsky<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>is an artist and curator. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers University. Her artwork is in the collections of the Harvard University Museums, the Library of Congress, the Victoria &amp; Albert Museum, and the Stadtsmuseum, Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ferris Olin<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>is a feminist scholar, curator, educator, and librarian, and a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University. Dr. Olin founded the Margery Somers Foster Center: A Resource Center and Digital Archive on Women, Scholarship and Leadership at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library. In 2012, the Women\u2019s Caucus for Art awarded Dr. Olin the Art Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>Brodsky and Olin co-founded and co-directed several initiatives and institutions, including the Institute for Women and Art, the Women Artists Archive National Directory, the Miriam Schapiro Archives on Women Artists, and the Feminist Art Project. They have co-authored two books,<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art, and Society<\/em><span>\u00a0<\/span>(2012) and<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Junctures in Women\u2019s Leadership: The Arts<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(2018).<\/p>\n<h5>Fall 2019 Contemporary Perspectives Artist<\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cfa\/files\/2018\/08\/SVA_Pendleton-sm-banner2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-62442 size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Pendleton<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Wednesday, October 16, 6:30 pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Jacob Sleeper Auditorium, 871 Commonwealth Ave.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adam Pendleton is an interdisciplinary artist whose work mines the histories of art and of social movements to create densely layered, conceptual works. Combining painting, silkscreen, collage, video, installation and performance, his broad output is united by a monochrome aesthetic and an engagement with the limits of meaning in both language and images. In his work, historical avant-garde strategies are recontextualized to address the black experience in America. Pendleton\u2019s <em>Black Dada<\/em>, an ongoing interdisciplinary project in publishing, painting, installation and more, addresses the possibility of a new avant-garde language for African American experience. Pendleton poses urgent yet open-ended questions about the ownership of cultural history and the legacy of Modernism in the present.<\/p>\n<p>Pendleton has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Art Center in Cambridge; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; among many others. He studied at the Artspace Independent Study Program in Peitrasanta, Italy. He is represented by Pace Gallery.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2018 - 2019<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Sedrick Huckaby (CFA&#8217;97)<br \/>\nMernet Larsen<br \/>\nJudith Barry<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2017 - 2018<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Martha Rosler<br \/>\nTom Sachs<br \/>\nLaurie Anderson<br \/>\nMiwa Matreyek<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2016 - 2017<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Jack Whitten<br \/>\nJeffrey Gibson<br \/>\nSheila Pepe<br \/>\nMary Reid Kelley &amp; Patrick Kelley<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2015 - 2016<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Maya Lin<br \/>\nMichael Berryhill<br \/>\nHuma Bhabha<br \/>\nWalton Ford<br \/>\nAaron James Draplin<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2014 - 2015<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Josephine Halvorson<br \/>\nStefan Sagmeister<br \/>\nMickalene Thomas\u00a0&amp; Anna Stothart\u00a0in conversation<br \/>\nJanet Echelman<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2013 - 2014<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Richard Aldrich<br \/>\nJanine Antoni<br \/>\nCarrie Moyer<br \/>\nJerry Saltz &amp; Roberta Smith in conversation<br \/>\nMiranda July<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2012 - 2013<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Vik Muniz<br \/>\nDona Nelson<br \/>\nAmy Franceschini<br \/>\nAndrea Zittel<br \/>\nChris Jordan<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2011 - 2012<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Phoebe Washburn<br \/>\nEnrique Chagoya<br \/>\nNicole Eisenman<br \/>\nLaurie Anderson<br \/>\nApril Greiman<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2010 - 2011<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Alison Saar<br \/>\nAnna Sculeit<br \/>\nAlyson Shotz<br \/>\nLaylah Ali<br \/>\nKyle Cooper<br \/>\nWilliam Kentridge<br \/>\nJudy Pfaff<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2009 - 2010<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Struth<br \/>\nFred Wilson<br \/>\nAlyson Shotz<br \/>\nBeverley Semmes<br \/>\nKerry James Marshall<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2008 -2009<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Jenny Saville<br \/>\nDana Schutz<br \/>\nCarol Becker<br \/>\nUsula von Rydingsvard in conversation with Debra Bricker Balken<br \/>\nYvonne Rainer in conversation with Robert Storr<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2007 - 2008<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Peter Scheljdahl<br \/>\nChuck Close<br \/>\nMagdalena Campos Pons<br \/>\nLedelle Moe<br \/>\nAnna Conway<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2006 - 2007<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Ritchie in conversation with Jerry Saltz<br \/>\nTrenton Doyle Hancock<br \/>\nHanneline Rogeberg<br \/>\nWillie Cole<br \/>\nSandy Skoglund<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2005 - 2006<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Donald Kuspit<br \/>\nKiki Smith<br \/>\nDana Clancy<br \/>\nChris Chou<br \/>\nLynne Allen<br \/>\nRichard Yarde<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2004 - 2005<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Mark Strand<br \/>\nHaley Hasler<br \/>\nHilary Harkness<br \/>\nHilton Kramer<br \/>\nKen Tyler<br \/>\nKaren Wilkin<br \/>\nLise Lemeland<br \/>\nRobert Gamblin<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" id=\"blue\" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h5 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">2003 - 2004<\/h5><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Anne Harris<br \/>\nSusanna Coffey<br \/>\nVincent Desiderio<br \/>\nRobert Taplin<br \/>\nJohn Moore<br \/>\nMark Gottsegen<br \/>\nCatherine Murphy<br \/>\nSedrick Huckaby<br \/>\nJoe Ablow<br \/>\nNicole D\u2019Agata<br \/>\nAl Held<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><em>Artist lectures from 2006 and onward are available on the Boston University <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/search\/?tag=contemporary+perspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BUniverse archive<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- BEGIN: Constant Contact Text Link Email List Button --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END: SafeSubscribe --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the School of Visual Arts\u2019 Contemporary Perspectives Lecture Series (CPLS) invites renowned professional artists, designers, and critics to engage with the SVA community. 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