Four artists will present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures in October in the School of Art, Art History & Design.
The 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 free and open to the public and will take place in Richards Hall Rm. 15.
This month's artists include:
• Photographer Dorinth Doherty. Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 5:30 p.m.
A 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Doherty was born in Houston, Texas, and received a B.A. cum laude from Rice University and a MFA in Photography from Yale University. In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship, she has also received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the United States Department of the Interior.
Doherty’s work has been featured in exhibitions widely in the U.S. and abroad at institutions including the Amon Carter Museum of American Art; the Bluecoat in Liverpool, England; the Centro de Fotografía in Tenerife, Spain; and the Encuentros Abiertos Photography Biennial in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been invited to present scholarly papers and artist talks at more than 80 institutions and conferences worldwide.
Doherty’s work has been featured by American Way magazine, BBC’s Focus magazine, Dallas Morning News, Du magazine, Hyperallergic, National Geographic, New Yorker: Photo Booth, Oxford American Journal, Harper’s, Smith Journal Australia, Texas Monthly, Tomboy Tarts, Wall Street Journal, and Wired magazine, among others.
• Art historian and critic Suzanne Hudson. Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 5:30 p.m.
Hudson is associate professor of art history and fine arts at the University of Southern California. She writes on modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on abstraction, painting, art pedagogy and American philosophy.
A longtime contributor to “Artforum,” she is the author of “Robert Ryman: Used Paint” (MIT Press, 2009; 2011), “Painting Now” (Thames & Hudson, 2015), “Agnes Martin: Night Sea” (Afterall/MIT Press, 2017), and the co-editor of “Contemporary Art: 1989–Present” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Her forthcoming books include “Mary Weatherford” in 2019 from Lund Humphries and “Contemporary Painting” in 2020 by Thames & Hudson.
Supported by a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, she is pursuing research into the practical applications of art making for her book, “Better for the Making: Art, Therapy, Process,” a study of the therapeutic origins of process within American modernism.
• Ceramic artists Sunkoo Yuh and Lauren Gallaspy. Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 5:30 p.m. Their visit is co-sponsored by the UNL Clay Club.
Gallaspy currently resides in Los Angeles, where she is a studio artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics at the University of Georgia in 2005 and her Master of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2007.
From 2009 to 2012, Gallaspy served as co-director and owner of Trace Gallery in Athens, Georgia. In 2013, she was recognized by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts as an Emerging Artist in the field. Additionally, she was one of 25 artists awarded the prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant for 2012.
Gallaspy has exhibited nationally and internationally in more than 80 group and solo exhibitions since 2007, including in the highly publicized “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now” at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas and the “Beyond the Objects: The 72nd Scripps Ceramics Annual” in Claremont California.
Gallaspy was an assistant professor of fine arts from 2012 to 2015 at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and a long-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana.
The ceramic sculpture of Yuh, who was born in South Korea in 1960 and immigrated to the United States in 1988, is composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art and Buddhist, Christian and Confucian beliefs inform some aspects of his imagery, his work is largely driven by implied narratives that often suggest socio-political critiques. His current focus on type of architectural-scale sculpture and on pushing his medium to its limits of size.
He has exhibited widely and has received many awards and honors. He was the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant; the Grand Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale International Competition, Icheon, Korea; The Elizabeth R. Raphael Founder’s Prize; and the Virginia A. Groot Foundation.
His work is in the collections of The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; Icheon World Ceramic Center, Icheon, Korea; the International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Oakland Museum of Art, and more.
Yuh is currently professor at the Lamar Dodd School at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he continues to learn and experiment.