Visual artist Buckingham in residence this spring
The UW–Madison Arts Institute welcomes New York-based visual artist Matthew Buckingham as its Spring 2006 Artist in Residence.
Buckingham will teach “Representing the Past in Media and Art” and will present a public lecture on his work for an upcoming major exhibit of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art called “Between the Lakes: Artists Respond to Madison.” The public lecture, “Behind the Terminal Moraine,” will be held Tuesday, April 25, at 7 p.m. at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 227 State Street.
Buckingham’s residency is sponsored by the department of communication arts and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and co-sponsored by the art history department, the art department, and the Visual Culture Cluster.
While in residence, Buckingham will teach “Representing the Past in Media and Art.” Offered in two sections, this theory seminar and studio workshop will investigate the capacity of art and moving images to express historical memory. In the studio workshop section, students will use writing, drawing, photography, film, video, television, Web design, installation, performance, slides, audio, sculpture, architecture and other media to develop and realize individual creative projects that address issues of memory, place, narration, and representation.
Students enrolled in the theory seminar will focus on recent debates in the discipline of history, utilizing close textual readings to analyze the current role of historiography and historicism within visual culture.
Buckingham is one of seven artists participating in the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Between the Lakes” exhibit. Created for the opening of the museum’s new facility in the Overture Center for the Arts and coinciding with the Madison sesquicentennial, the exhibit asks participating artists to explore the city’s past and examine the present.
Buckingham received his B.A. in film production and film studies from the University of Iowa in 1988, and in 1996 he completed an M.F.A. at Bard College. In 1997, he participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program, a division of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
His work, including films, drawings, and photographs, has been shown at numerous museums and galleries around the world. In 2003, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service Artist Residency Grant that enabled him to live and work in Berlin during that year. His work has been supported by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Danish Film Institute. In 2004, he was awarded a Henry and Natalie Freund Teaching Fellowship at the Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, Missouri.
Buckingham will be in residence at the UW–Madison under the auspices of the Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Arts Residency Program, which brings world-class artists to campus to teach interdepartmental, for-credit courses, and to perform or exhibit work for campus and community audiences. Governed by arts faculty and staff, the Arts Institute represents all the arts on campus and works to make the arts more visible and effective at UW–Madison. The Arts Institute funds and supports projects with university- and community-wide impact, including artists residencies, awards and fellowships, public programs, and arts marketing and outreach.
For more information, visit the Buckingham residency Web site.
