Julia Bryan-Wilson lecture & round-table discussion

November 3, 2015 - November 4, 2015
Mānoa Campus, Art Auditorium, UHM; Burns Hall, East-West Center Add to Calendar

Lecture:

Louise Nevelson’s “Darkness”
Tuesday, November 3, 6:00-7:30 p.m.,
ART Auditorium, ART Building.

Round Table Discussion:

Wednesday, November 4, 12:00-1:15 p.m.,
BURNS HALL, East-West Center (room TBA).

Julia Bryan-Wilson’s research interests include questions of artistic labor, feminism, queer theory, fabrication/production, performance, visual culture of the nuclear age, photography, and textile handicraft. She is the author of "Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era," UC Press, 2009, which was named a “best book of the year” by "Artforum" magazine, and the editor of OCTOBER Files: Robert Morris, which was published in 2013 by the MIT Press.

A scholar and critic, Bryan-Wilson has written about artists such Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Sadie Benning, the Cockettes, Simone Forti, Cristóbal Lehyt, Ana Mendieta, Yvonne Rainer, Yoko Ono, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, and Anne Wilson, in publications that include Art Bulletin, "Artforum," "The Craft Reader," "The Textiles Reader, October," "The Journal of Modern Craft," and many exhibition catalogs. Her article “Invisible Products” received the 2013 Art Journal award. She has held grants from the Getty, the Clark Art Institute, the Henry Moore Institute, and the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design. In 2014 she was the Terra Foundation Visiting Scholar in American Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is an associate professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Co-sponsored with the UHM International Cultural Studies Program.


Ticket Information
Admission is free. Parking fees may apply.

Event Sponsor
Art + Art History, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Sharon Tasaka, 956-8364, gallery@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/art/exhibitions+events/exhibitions/?p=773

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