Three lectures remain in the School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series.
The 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, with the exception of Dorland's lecture, which will be via Zoom. The lectures are free and open to the public.
• March 27: Isabella Barbuzza, professor in the sculpture and intermedia program in the University of Iowa’s School of Art and Art History.
Born in Mendoza, Argentina, Barbuzza received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art from the Universidad Naacional de Cuyo in Mendoza and a Master of Fine Arts in art studio from the University of California in Santa Barbara.
As a sculptor, Barbuzza works in installations, objects and site-specific; she is interested in the power of materiality and the narratives that accompany them. She uses old encyclopedias to create a tactile reading from manipulated paper. Discarded encyclopedias, for example, trace a history of Colonialism, and their information continues to perpetuate post-colonial legacies of Western superiority over the non-Western world. Barbuzza is very interested in the power and the possibilities of found materials. Other materials she has used are mussel shells, artificial flowers, honey wax combs, copper and many others.
Her work is in private and public collections in the U.S. and abroad. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including one- or two-person exhibitions at Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Art Gallery in Japan; the Dubuque Museum of Art in Dubuque, Iowa; and the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
• April 10: Kim Dorland, who lives and works in Toronto. He pushes the boundaries of painted representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity and place. He has exhibited globally. The lecture will be via Zoom at https://unl.zoom.us/j/98942017687.
Drawing heavily from the Canadian landscape and his huge appetite for the history and language of painting, the loose yet identifiable scenes are interjected with areas of heavy abstract impasto. His refusal to remain faithful to one medium or approach plays into the symbiotic nature of his work.
Dorland holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from York University in Toronto, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver.
He has exhibited globally, including shows in Milan, London, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. His work is featured in the Contemporary Art Foundation (Japan), The Sander Collection (Berlin), Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Art Gallery of Alberta, the Audain Art Museum and numerous private collections.
• April 24: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting, public art and multimedia installation. She is a Forbes Under 30 lister, a Mellon Foundation fellow, and in 2018, she became the inaugural Public Artist in Residence for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
She is from Oklahoma City and was born to a Black mother and Iranian Father. Fazlalizadeh, whose social practice is rooted in Black feminist praxis, considers image-making as a site of protest, contestation, affirmation and possibility. She makes site-specific work that considers how people, particularly women and Black golks, experience race and gender within their surrounding physical environments.
Fazlalizadeh is the creator of “Stop Telling Women to Smile,” an international series that tackles gender-based street harassment by centering intersectionality in public art and is the author of “Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power.”
In recent work, Fazlalizadeh finds interest in the interiority of the lives of racialized and sexualized people. Here, she sees her social practice as an opportunity to not only publicly reflect the experiences of others, but as a space for emotional connection through shared space, conversation and experience.
Fazlalizadeh has lectured about her work and methodology at institutions such as The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, as well as several schools, including Brown, Pratt, Stanford and The New School.
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.