Koopman Distinguished Chair Ernesto Pujol gave a lecture on November 24th. The lecture took place in Wilde Auditorium and was sponsored by the Sculpture Department. Ernesto Pujol is a New York-based conceptual artist and educator with a multimedia and interdisciplinary art practice.
Daniel Bozhkov gave a presentation on November 5th as part of the Auerbach Visiting Artists Lecture Series. Daniel Bozhkov is a Bulgarian-born artist based in New York City. He employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields, using different strategies to activate the public space. Bozhkov enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor
who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.
The Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford recently opened Nancy Graves, Insipired Visions. The show includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures and will be on view until the 28th of June. Here is an excerpt about the show from the gallery.
Paralleling her development as a sculptor are paintings, watercolors, and drawings that possess their own unique language while reflecting her constantly evolving preoccupation with various forms and subjects that resurface in her sculpture.