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of Events Visual Arts Events Monday, February 4-Friday, February 15 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, February 7, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Wednesday, February 13, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Kalup Lintzy Kalup Linzy is among a new generation of artists working in narrative video and performance. His soap-operatic shorts, with recurring characters (many of whom are played by Linzy in drag), twisted plotlines, and a dose of subversive humor touch on family and black stereotypes. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, February 20, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Beverly Semmes Beverly Semmes’s is concerned with the politics and psychology of identity. Her sculptures of large-scale dresses exaggerate and explore the power of clothing and its ability to influence. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Monday, February 25-Friday, March 7 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, February 28, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Wednesday, February 27, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Janine Antoni Operating in the space between performance art and sculpture, Janine Antoni’s work refers to the body and transforms everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art. She has famously chiseled cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth and washed away the faces of soap busts made in her own likeness. By participating in compulsive practices associated with femininity, she engages and criticizes in a “bulimic” and obsessive society. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, March 5, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Chuck Webster Craig Olsen writes on his work.. "Chuck Webster’s most recent thicket of images triggers a response from somewhere between the senses, a place where the eye’s ear is activated through optically tympanic vibrations. It’s a visual sound that can be likened to prisms of light blown into clay resonators or sung through spider’s-egg membranes, cultivating two kinds of acuity— one deep and raspy, the other high, round and liquid. They are two different harmonic bearings traveling in tandem yet integrally connected and so remaining in organic unit. -Brooklyn Rail, October 2007 Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, March 12, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Miguel Calderon Miguel Calderon is a Mexican artist working in video, still photography, installation, and painting. Typically provocative in his work, he employs stereotypes and clichés to absurd measures. His painting “Bad Route” was bought by Wes Anderson and shown in the film The Royal Tenenbaums. In keeping with his “low-brow”, subversive style, Calderon dressed and positioned the masked gang on motorcycles in the painting, photographed them, and then employed a portrait painter to copy the photo. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Tuesday, March 25-Friday, April 4 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, March 27, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Wednesday, March 26, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Molly Nesbitt Molly Nesbit is an historian, curator, and contributing editor of art forum. She teaches and writes on twentieth century art, film and photography and is noted for her books, Atget's Seven Albums and Their Common Sense. Working within the realm of relational aesthetics, she curated Utopia Station for the 50th Venice Biennial with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Wednesday, April 2, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Dana Hoey Dana Hoey makes photographs, digital inkjet works and digital videos dealing with notions of femininity and corrupted idealism. She presents windows into the troubled and invisible dynamics of female relationships and recently published “Profane Waste”, a book of her works in 2006. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Saturday, April 5, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. M.F.A. Open Studios Civic Square Building FREE Wednesday, April 9, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Tom Nozkowski Described as a “post-minimal formalist,” Tom Nozkowski’s abstract paintings involve the interplay of biomorphic and geometric forms. He makes small and medium sized paintings on panel or paper that are based on forms found in nature or the urban environment and characterized by color and composition. Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 10-Friday, April 18 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, April 10, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Janet Bergstrom This lecture/reception will celebrate the Libraries acquisition from New Yorker Films of a newly struck 16mm motion picture print of Chantal Akerman's landmark film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Belgium, 1976), which came to epitomize the practice of feminist filmmaking. The film has never been commercially available but is extensively written about and shown (mostly in poorly dubbed versions) in film classrooms all over the world, and Rutgers is one of only a few institutions to own a print of this landmark film. The lecture and films will be shown at Rutgers throughout the month of April and will celebrate the film’s maker, Chantal Akerman, an artist who continues to make important films and museum installations. The speaker for this event is Janet Bergstrom, a Professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television who specializes in cross-cultural studies of European film directors. SCC Teleconference/Lecture Hall, Archibald S. Alexander Library FREE Wednesday, April 23, 6:30 p.m. Visiting Artist Series Peter McGough and Jeffrey Uslip, a conversation Peter McGough and David McDermott were both part of the famous East Village New York art scene of the 1980s, and are renowned for their practice of appropriating imagery and objects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and reconstructing their lives as Victorian gentlemen. Their photographs, paintings and installations refer to a culture of suppressed or subverted homoeroticism and explore culture, both high and low, from moral hypocrisies and sex to the new industrial age. Jeffrey Uslip is an independent curator and Curator At Large of LAXART, Los Angles. He has recently curated Nina In Position currently on view at Artist Space, New York. His other projects include Log Cabin, 2005, Artist Space, New York, November, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York Civil Restitutions, 2006, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 2004 The Project, New York.Civic Square Building Room 117 FREE Thursday, April 24-Friday, May 9 Monday-Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Reception: Thursday, April 24, 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mason Gross Galleries at Civic Square FREE Wednesday, April 30, 4:30 p.m. Mason Gross Presents Walid Raad Walid Raad grew up in Lebanon and his work concentrates on the Lebanese civil wars, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and documentary, theory and practice. Walid Raad established the Atlas Group in 1999 and is a member of the Arab Image Foundation, started in 1996 to promote historical research of the visual culture of the Arab world, and to promote experimental video production in the region. The Atlas Group Archive’s public forms include mixed media installations, single channel video screenings, visual and literary essays, and lecture/performances. Crossroads Theatre FREE
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