Photo Fridays: Edward Weston's Leaves of Grass
February 3, 2012
11:30am - 3:30pm
CCP Print Viewing Room, Free Admission In 1941 Edward Weston traveled across the United States making photographs to accompany Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. Covering 20,000 miles and twenty four states, Weston’s photographs offer a diverse view of the American landscape. Visitors will have the opportunity to see a selection of works included in the publication, in addition to lesser-known images from Weston's road trip that were unpublished. -----------
Photo Friday is an exclusive look at the Center’s world renowned fine art photograph collection. The first Friday of every month from 11:30am to 3:30pm, the public will be able to view original works of photographic art in our Print Viewing Room on the second floor. The works selected for Photo Friday will change every month, so we hope visitors will want to come back for Photo Fridays throughout the year.
Photo Friday will present unframed photographs for close inspection. Without frame or glass, visitors can examine each photograph’s surface, see detail otherwise obscured by protective glass, and connect with the works on an intimate level. This is an extraordinary opportunity typically enjoyed by specialists. Expect to see collection highlights as well as surprising, lesser-known treasures that will help inform your knowledge of the history of photography, its techniques, and its practitioners.
Matthew Coolidge:
Anthropogeomorphological Extrapolations - The Center for Land Use Interpretation on the Ground
February 20, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Presented by University of Arizona School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series
http://cfa.arizona.edu/vase/index.html
In this lecture Coolidge will take the audience on a virtual tour through a range of built landscapes, in an attempt to extract meaning from the pits and piles that surround us.
Matthew Coolidge is the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), which has been constructing stories out of the intentional and incidental architectures of America since 1994. CLUI, a research organization exploring landscape issues, engages in projects such as Event Marker, a series of signs similar to roadside historical markers that are erected to commemorate significant but obscure land-use phenomena like bomb test sites and film locations. CLUI also executes exhibitions such as The Best Dead Mall in America and A View into the Pipe (an excavation exposing Los Angeles' main sewer pipe, offering a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the metropolis). Other activities include guided bus tours and interpretive programs as well as initiatives like the Land Use Database, an online resource of unusual and exemplary sites throughout the United States designed to educate and inform the public about our landscape as it is altered to accommodate the complex demands of society.
Mary Virginia Swanson:
Ansel Adams: Advocate for American Photography
March 1, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Mary Virginia Swanson worked closely with Ansel Adams during her tenure as director of education at The Friends of Photography (1980-1984), an organization that Adams co-founded and served as Chair of the Board of Directors until his death in 1984. She will discuss Adams's life-long contributions to the broad acceptance of photography as an art form and will chart his passion for sharing his love of the medium throughout his career. Highlights will include Adams’s early days leading photography "outings" in Yosemite for the Sierra Club, his role in establishing a permanent Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, and his involvement as teacher and mentor to many of today's most respected photographers. Swanson went on to Special Projects at Magnum Photos, relocating to Tucson in 1991 to found Swanstock, an innovative agency managing licensing rights for fine art photographers. Today, Swanson is widely respected as an educator, creative consultant and author; her most recent title co-authored with Darius Himes is Publish Your Photography Book (Princeton Architectural Press, 2010).
Artist’s Talk and Book Signing: José Galvez
March 19, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Prize-winning photojournalist José Galvez will discuss his career documenting the everyday lives of Latinos in the United States, with special focus on his new work from the South. Born into the Mexican barrios of Tucson, Galvez entered the building of the Arizona Daily Star carrying his shoeshine box when he was 10 years old. He became a permanent fixture in the newsroom and bought a camera at a pawn shop in high school. Galvez majored in journalism at the University of Arizona and became a staff photographer at the Star where he focused his lens on his home, the barrios of Tucson, and the Mexican-American people who lived, worked, and loved there. Galvez became the first Mexican-American photographer on the staff of the Los Angeles Times, and in 1984, he and his Chicano colleagues there won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on Latino life in southern California. Galvez served as senior photo editor and contributor to Americanos, a multi-media exhibition documenting Latino life in the United States led by Edward James Olmos. In 2000, he published his first solo book, Vatos, collaboration with esteemed poet Luis Alberto Urrea. In Beloved Land, he and famed oral historian Patricia Martin explored the lives of Mexican pioneer ranchers in the American Southwest. In 2004 Galvez and his family moved to North Carolina to photograph Hispanic immigration in the South. His photographs have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including the Smithsonian Institution.
Artist’s Talk: Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison:
The Force Majeure - The Peninsula of Europe, The Tibetan Plateau and Sierra Nevada
March 27, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Presented by University of Arizona School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series
http://cfa.arizona.edu/vase/index.html
Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison has worked for almost forty years with interdisciplinary teams to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. Acting as historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists, their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context. The Harrisons, faculty of UC Santa Cruz, have recently founded the Center for Force Majeure Studies, to generate long-term research projects that address the emerging stresses of the Earth’s largest ecosystems by co-joining the processes of art-making and the Sciences within the uniquely and specifically-framed perspective of their past projects.
Artist’s Talk: Carter Mull
March 29, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Carter Mull is an American artist working in Los Angeles who creates pictures through a process of rephotographing and altering existing images to recompose an understanding of our shared social imagination. His practice has been discussed in publications and periodicals, including Artforum, Art In America, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker. Mull’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Presentation House, Vancouver, and Domaine Departement de Chamarande, Paris, and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, the UCLA Hammer Museum, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Lucy R. Lippard: Weather Report
April 9, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Presented by University of Arizona School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series
http://cfa.arizona.edu/vase/index.html
Lucy R. Lippard is a writer, curator, editor, lecturer, activist, and author of 21 books on contemporary art and cultural criticism, most recently Down Country: The Tano of the Galisteo Basin, 1250-1782 (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2010), The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, and On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place (The New Press, 1997, 1999). She is a recipient of eight honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation grant, and the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, among other awards. Her most recent curatorial venture was Weather Report: Art and Climate Change (Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007). She lives in rural Galisteo, New Mexico where she is on the County Traditional Community Planning Committee and for 15 years has edited the monthly community newsletter, El Puente de Galisteo.
Kenneth D. Allan: Radio-Mastery of the Ether - Wallace Berman and Materiality in 1960s Los Angeles
April 12, 2012
5:30 pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Kenneth D. Allan’s research focuses on the rise of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and has included the work and influence of Wallace Berman. A central figure in development of the postwar Los Angeles art world as the editor of the journal Semina, Berman’s work spanned the media of photography, collage, assemblage sculpture, and film. This talk will consider how his interest in the history of radio technology, Jewish mysticism and ideas of transmission and reception come together in his later work with stones and Hebrew lettering inspired by a prized 1923 book in his library, The Story of Modern Science Vol. IX: Radio-Mastery of the Ether. Kenneth Allan is Assistant Professor of Art History at Seattle University and received his MA and PhD from University of Chicago. His recent publications include essays for the Getty Museum catalog, Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980.
Curators’ Talk: Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon
April 19, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon will discuss their current CCP exhibition, Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976. Claudia Bohn-Spector is an independent scholar and curator in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Munich, Germany. A specialist in American art and culture, she has curated numerous fine art exhibitions, including a critically acclaimed survey of Los Angeles photography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, entitled This Side of Paradise: Body and Landscape in L.A. Photographs. With Sam Mellon, she is currently working on a book-length study entitled WRONG: Rules and Irreverence in American Art, 1945 to 1975, for publication in 2013.
Sam Mellon is a musician and curator based in Los Angeles. In 2008 he founded Open Gallery (with Kamil Beski), an exhibition space in Los Angeles devoted to showing emerging conceptual artists and photographers. There, he organized numerous contemporary exhibitions, including works by Veaceslav Druta, Louisa Van Leer, Jed Lind, Jill Newman, Kris Cunz, and Lindsay Foster. He currently serves as the Director of Exhibition Services at Curatorial Assistance, an international traveling exhibition service in Pasadena, after nearly a decade of preparing and installing exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Luke Batten: Robert Heinecken, Object Matter
April 24, 2012
5:30pm
CCP Auditorium, Free Admission
Luke Batten, Director of the Robert Heinecken Trust, will discuss the editing of a new monograph published by Riding House detailing Heinecken's artistic output from 1957-1997. The monograph, Robert Heinecken, expands our knowledge of his artistic practice by including several unpublished works from the 1950's and reassembled magazines created in the 1990's. The focus of the discussion will concentrate on Heinecken's penchant for experimenting with photographic processes and materials. Batten is Associate Professor of Photography at the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois. He received his MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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