Falk Visiting Artists
Every year the Department of Art and the Weatherspoon Museum collaborate to bring guest artists to the UNCG campus through the Falk Visiting Artist program. Of three Falk artists every year, two visits are accompanied by an exhibition in the Weatherspoon.
Catherine Murphy, Falk Visiting Artist
September 15, 2012 - December 9, 2012 - WAM
Artist's Gallery Talk: Wednesday, November 7th -- 4pm - 5pm
Artist's Lecture: Thursday, November 8th- 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Catherine Murphy's work requires close looking and contemplation. Painting from life, Murphy uses color, form and light to create paintings that challenge our skills of perception at the same time that they suggest intriguing narratives. With simple and everyday subjects, the artist generates unexpected journeys of discovery.
Catherine Murphy received her BFA from Pratt Institute (1967), and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1966). Her work is represented in many private and public collections, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC. She was awarded National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1979 and 1989, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982, and, in 2002, was inducted a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
As the Fall 2012 Falk Visiting Artist at the Weatherspoon and the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Murphy will present a lecture and gallery talk on her work and participate in MFA graduate student critiques.
Yoshua Okon Falk Visiting Artist
January 18, 2013 - April 14, 2013
- WAM
Artist's Gallery Talk: TBA
Artist's Lecture: TBA
Yoshua Okón creates staged and improvised situations that challenge notions of reality and truth. The artist has become well known internationally for his practice of placing individuals engaged with real-life social and political issues into fabricated narratives. Okón's recent work, Canned Laughter is a multimedia project that circulates around the idea of a maquiladora, a term used to describe factories in Mexico. Many of these factories underpay workers and are run by multinational companies. As the title suggests, the one imagined by Okón produces a product used by the television industry.
As the Spring 2013 Falk Visiting Artist at the Weatherspoon and the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Okón will present a lecture and gallery talk on his work and participate in MFA graduate student critiques.
The exhibition is organized by Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions. Special thanks to Assistant Professor of Art, Sarah Martin, and the 2012/13 Falk Visiting Artist Committee.
Yoshua Okón (b. Mexico City, 1970; lives and works in Mexico DF and Los Angeles, CA) studied at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and earned his MFA from UCLA in 2002. A founder of La Panadería (an artist-run space active in Mexico City from 1994-2002) and SOMA (a new artist-run contemporary art school and residency program) the artist has been included in exhibitions worldwide, including at the CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco; New Museum, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; PS1 MOMA, New York; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Okón's works are included in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; CIFO, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami; Jumex Collection, Mexico City; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; and Tate Modern, London.
Liz Miller Falk Visiting Artist
TBA
Artist's Gallery Talk: TBA
Artist's Lecture: TBA
Liz Miller's mixed media installations and drawings recontextualize simplified shapes, signs and symbols from disparate historical and contemporary imagery to create abstract fictions. Existing forms from a multitude of sources are co-opted, altered, and spliced to adopt hybrid identities. Through the process of appropriation and subsequent recombination, shapes lose their real-world connotations and take on fictitious roles. Forged relationships between benign and malignant forms confuse the original implications of each while revealing the precariousness of perception and how easily it can be tampered with. Recent projects pit Baroque and Gothic pattern and ornament against forms derived from armor and weaponry. Seemingly oppositional pairings create duplicitous environments where conflicting messages are conveyed. The use of felt, foam, and other tactile materials further complicates questions of source, masking the identity of forms while allowing them to inhabit both sculptural and two-dimensional space.
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