Art historian Mary Pardo and painter Alexander Ross will present Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist and Scholar lectures this month in the School of Art, Art History & Design.
Pardo will present her lecture on Thursday, April 11; Ross will present his lecture on Thursday, April 25. Both lectures begin at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. The lectures are free and open to the public.
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.
Pardo is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She specializes in Italian Renaissance art and art criticism, and has published essays on Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian.
To complete her Old Master Hit Parade, her upcoming publication is on Michelangelo and Hieronymus Bosch. She is especially interested in the comic side of serious art.
Throughout her career, she has been continuously intrigued by word and image relationships, a theme that has influenced many of her academic projects, including her current study of relations between images of love, and art in religious worship during the Renaissance.
Ross is represented by David Nolan Gallery in New York. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, an Art Production Fund Fellowship, residency at the Musée Claude Monet in Giverny, France, and an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Tesuque Foundation.
His work has been included in major group exhibitions including “Remote Viewing” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and an exhibition titled “Our Grotesque,” which was curated by Robert Storr for the 2004 Santa Fe Biennial. Storr also wrote a feature article about Ross’s work that appeared in “ArtForum” magazine in 2003.
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.