Painter Sarah McEneaney and sculptor Trevor Amery will present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist lectures in February in the School of Art, Art History & Design.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.
Each lecture is at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lectures are free and open to the public.
Born in Munich, Germany, McEneaney’s paintings, drawings and prints are in many public collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson and Johnson and Microsoft Corporation, among others.
Her awards include an Anonymous Was a Woman grant, a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and residencies at Ballinglen Arts Centre, the Joan Mitchell Center, Chinati Foundation and others.
She works as both an artist and community activist in Philadelphia and is represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York and the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. Working primarily in egg tempera, her paintings are characterized by their autobiographical content, detailed brushwork and brilliant color.
Amery represented the U.S. at the 2012 Kathmandu International Art Festival and has exhibited at such venues as Kiasma, the Skanzen Museum, MAMU Galerie, Moore College, and Gallery Protocol. He is currently exhibiting at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and is an artist in residence (A.I.R.) at Bemis in Omaha. His upcoming artist in residency will be at the YZ Creative Art Center in China. He will also be exhibiting at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
Amery received his B.F.A. from MICA and his M.F.A. from the University of California San Diego. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Hungary and a Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award.
The remaining lectures in the series are:
• Jan. 24: Doug Casebeer. He is the Associate Director and Artistic Director for Ceramics at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He is also Chair of the Artist in Residency Program. He is in his 32nd year of running workshops at the Ranch.
• Jan. 25: Kris Graves. He is a photographer and publisher based in New York and London. He creates artwork that deals with what he sees as wrong with American society and aims to use art as a means to inform people about social issues. He also works to elevate the representation of people of color in the fine art canon; and to create opportunities for conversation about race and representation.
• Jan. 31: Jenny Polak and Dread Scott. Polak makes site/community responsive art that reframes immigrant-citizen relations, amplifying demands for social justice. Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward.
• March 28: Patricia Johnston. Johnston studies how early American arts were influence by global trade, especially trade with Asia. She is the Rev. J. Gerard Mears, S.J., Chair in Fine Arts and Chair of the Visual Arts Department at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester MA, and a nationally recognized scholar of American art and its wider visual culture.
• April 5: Robert Storr. Storr is an artist, critic and curator. He was appointed professor of painting/printmaking and dean of the Yale University School of Art in 2006 and was named the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean in 2014.
• April 11: Raun Hoffman. Hoffmann is primarily known for his work in ceramics, but his practice is varied. He also produces art in other mediums including painting, printmaking, cartoons for tapestries and commercial product design.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.