Art department hosts visiting artists, critics

Artists famous for morphing boundaries between media and people will be special guests this fall at the Department of Art.

T.L. Solien, assistant professor of art and chair of the visiting artists/critics committee in the Department of Art, says the department issues invitations on the basis of the perspectives visiting artists and critics can offer art students and faculty, and members of the larger community.

David Dunlap will lecture Monday, Sept. 13, at 5:30 p.m.in L160 Elvehjem Museum of Art. All visiting artist lectures are free, and lectures by the other visitors will begin at 5:30 p.m. in L150 Elvehjem. Information: 262-1660.

Here are some of the major art exhibits planned on campus this fall. “Wildeworld: The Art of John Wilde,” Nov. 13 – Jan. 9 at the Elvehjem Museum of Art, features work from the nearly 60-year career of Wilde, a Wisconsin artist who revived the tradition of silverpoint drawing. This exhibition features about 75 paintings and drawings created between 1940 and the present. The show is timed to coincide with the artist’s 80th birthday. “Wood Engraving: The Fine Line,” Oct. 16 – Dec. 19 in the Mayer Gallery at the Elvehjem, is a selection of fine-line art of the 19th and 20th centuries from the permanent collection. Terry Rodgers, Sept. 11 – Oct. 10 at Porter Butts Gallery, Memorial Union, will exhibit paintings of interaction (and non-interaction) that remind us of how much of our mental life is disguised. “Passing By,” Richard Levine, Sept. 11 – Oct. 10 at the Class of 1925 Gallery, Memorial Union, synthesizes his sense of internal imagery with visual renderings of people that are singularly personal. “On Steve’s Walls,” Sept. 11 – Oct. 10 at Theater Gallery in Memorial Union, features the collection of Wisconsin Union employee Steve Engle.

“We look for a progressive and diverse group of artists and critics working nationally and internationally,” he says. “The department is eager to expose our students to art forms and opinions that enhance the information available in university classrooms.”

David Dunlap, on campus Sept. 13-17, will create a new installation in exhibit space on the seventh floor of the Humanities Building. Dunlap will conduct a seminar on artistic collaboration and a workshop on collaborative drawing. He plans to meet one-on-one with art students to talk about their work.

Dunlap has created performance works for Reed College in Portland, Ore.; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; and the Des Moines Art Center. He is currently a member of the Iowa University painting and drawing faculty.

Dunlap will discuss his work in a free public lecture Monday, Sept. 13, in L160 Elvehjem Museum of Art. All visiting artist lectures are free, and lectures by the other visitors will begin at 5:30 p.m. in L150 Elvehjem.

Critic David Pagel will be in residence at UW–Madison Oct. 5-7. Over the last decade, Pagel has written more than 1,000 reviews, features and essays appearing in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Art+Text, Artscribe, Artforum, Shift, Art and Auction and other international journals. In addition, Pagel has curated exhibitions of contemporary American abstract paintings seen in art museums and galleries across the country. Pagel will lecture Oct. 5.

Interdisciplinary artist/writer Coco Fusco, at UW–Madison Oct. 20-22, has lectured, performed, exhibited and presented cultural programs throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe and in South Africa. Fusco’s essays have appeared in The Village Voice, Washington Post, The Nation, Art in America and more. She will lecture Oct. 20.

Painter Phyllis Bramson, who will visit Nov. 2-4, describes her work as “fairytale-like.” An alumna of UW–Madison who received a MFA in 1964, Bramson’s work is part of permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the National Museum of American Art and the Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C. She will lecture Nov. 2.

Photographer Collier Schorr, who has exhibited in London, Glasgow, Tokyo, Brussels, Stockholm and more, uses her camera to examine how we construct multiple identities for ourselves and each other. On campus Nov. 16-18, she will lecture Nov. 16.

For more information on the series, contact Solien, (608) 262-1660.