Spring 2010 Visiting Artist Lecture
Series
Napa River Inn
500 Main St.
Napa, CA 94559
707-251-8500
www.napariverinn.com
Tuesdays 7 – 8:30 PM
Lectures are presented in partnership with the Napa River Inn
Free Admission
For information call 707-255-6000
In tandem with a talented and experienced faculty, visiting artists comprise
and create one of the most compelling facets of the Oxbow program. Each
semester, Oxbow hosts two artists who join the faculty for ten-day residencies,
working with students to bring their own perspective, experiences and
approaches to thinking about and making art. In addition, artists visit
to give lectures and Oxbow students travel to significant collections
and arts institutions and meet informally with artists in their studios.
Oxbow is proud to present many of these artists in its Fall and Spring
Lecture Series, free to the public, as part of its commitment to building
a stronger Napa community.
David Hillard, Tuesday,
March 2
www.davidhillard.com.
David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. His panoramas direct the viewer’s gaze across the image surface allowing narrative, time and space to unfold.
David received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1992 and MFA from Yale University in 1994. He worked for many years as an assistant professor at Yale University where he also directed the undergraduate photo department. He has also taught at Harvard and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is currently an assistant professor in Boston at the Massachusetts College of Art was the director of the photography department at Cranbrook Art Academy in Michigan during the 2007/2008 academic year.
David Hilliard exhibits his photographs both nationally and internationally and has won numerous awards such as the Fulbright and Guggenheim. His photographs can be found in many important collections including the Whitney Museum of American art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. His work is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta and the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica. In 2005 a collection of his photographs was published in a monograph by Aperture Press.
Brad Brown- Tuesday,
March 16
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Brad Brown is an artist working primarily on drawings and works on paper. His drawing projects tend to be large, open-ended series that can remain unfinished for years. His largest project to date, The Look Stains, began in 1987 and consists of tens of thousands of works on paper that are continually worked on, torn up, re-drawn, and re-contextualized.
Brown has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Larissa Goldston Gallery, NY (2007), Lemberg Gallery, Detroit (2007), The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver (2006), and the Jundt Museum of Art in Washington (2006). His work is in the permanent collection of MoMA (NY), SFMoMA (SF, CA), Palace of Legion of Honor,(SF, CA), the National Gallery (Washington, DC, Arkansas Museum of Art (Littlerock, AK), Boise Art Museum (Boise, ID), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), among others.
Brad Brown currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Susan Martin - Tuesday,
March 23
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Susan Martin has shown her work extensively throughout the Bay Area and across the country since receiving her MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1981. She has also been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including two Pollock Krasner Foundation grants and artist residencies such as the Artist Residency Programs at Giverny and Yaddo.
Robilee Frederick
- Tuesday, March 30
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Robilee Frederick first trained to be a classical pianist. She later became a printmaker and after attending CCAC became what she calls a “process artist.” Because her work has an involvement with the mysteries of existence, memory and loss, there has always been a prevailing presence of light. Oil paint, torches, flames, gunpowder, incense burns, electric sanders are a few of the tools she uses. Her work explores a variety of textures and materials such as gut, drafting tissue over neon light boxes, seeds, and ash. She draws freely from her life experiences and travels in distant countries. Frederick states, “The presence of light running through my work creates a luminosity that resonates with the ephemeral quality of our fugitive memories.”
Frederick’s paintings and light pieces are included in many collections in the U.S. and abroad including; the di Rosa Preserve, the Hess Collection, as well as the Auchenbach Foundation. Robilee Frederick lives and works in Napa, California.
Amanda Hughen
& Jennifer Starkweather - Tuesday, April 13
www.amandahughen.com
www.jenniferstarkweather.com
Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen create collaborative artworks that explore the layers, complexities, and patterns that comprise a specific place. They use both current and historic information – photographs, maps, and data – to research a location. The resulting artworks map unique forms and patterns derived from built systems and natural movements of a place.
Their projects have included San Francisco's Market Street, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and seven US airports.
Jennifer Starkweather’s work has varied from documenting wind currents that occur in specific and cherished locations to mapping the landscapes that she has walked through daily. Presently she is interested in the idea of a “home” that transcends just a place where she has resided. It can embody a space that has been occupied for any length of time, a memorable moment or several years etched with the rituals of the same location.
Amanda Hughen’s drawings start with architectural templates and repeat the geometric shapes until ambiguous forms emerge -- biological, botanical, astronomical, or microscopic. Through layers of drawing and painting, an organic, chaotic event emerges. Both artists have shown nationally and
internationally, and have received numerous residencies and awards.
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