Fall 2019 RISD Photo Lecture Series
Fall 2019 RISD Photo Gary Metz Lectures
Photo: Blood on the Road, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Em Rooney
Metcalf Auditorium
Em Rooney lives and works in Massachusetts. Recent exhibitions include Peel, François Ghebaly, Les Soirées de Paris, Gallery Crèvecoeur, Figure in a Landscape, Foxy Production, New York, NY; Ordinary Time, Bodega, New York, NY (solo); Being: New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; How Well Do You Behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD., curated by Jo-ey Tang, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio (with Chris Domenick); redirecting, Simone Subal, New York, NY; Rubbings, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, CA; The Word for Forest, Bodega, New York, NY (solo); After the Sun, The Vanity Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two-person with Chris Domenick); Infinite Iotic, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (solo); and Em Rooney and Dana Hoey, Raising Cattle, Montreal, Canada (two-person). Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, Art in America, Aperture Magazine, i-D, and Artnews. She has written for Art Papers and Performa Magazine. Her current project approaches the idea of gift giving in editions of two. Her recent sculptural objects hold a copy of a gift made twice, once for a loved one, and another time, cast from the same mold, for the viewer.
Photo: The House Guest. Courtesy of the artist.
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Lucas Blalock
RISD Auditorium
Lucas Blalock’s work explores falseness and evident mechanics in photography. In doing so, he employs a variety of overlapping strategies often involving Photoshop.
Over the last few years Blalock has held solo shows at Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zurich), Ramiken Crucible (New York), and Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels), and this past February curator Jamillah James organized Blalock’s first solo museum presentation at the ICA/LA in Los Angeles. Blalock has also had work featured in many group exhibitions at venues including the Museum of Modern Art (New York) the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). Currently, a group of his pictures are on view as part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial.
Blalock has also made a number of artist books with titles including Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011), Windows Mirrors Tabletops (Morel, 2013), Inside the White Cub (Peradam, 2014), Making Memeries (SPBH, 2016), and A Grocer’s Orgy (Primary Information, 2018). He is also active as a writer and has published interviews and essays in catalogues and periodicals including IMA, Aperture, Foam, Mousse, and Objectiv. Blalock, originally from Asheville, North Carolina, holds a BA from Bard College, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received his MFA from UCLA.
The Fall 2019 RISD Photo TC Colley Lecture
Photo: Fragments (Part Two), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Aïda Muluneh
Metcalf Auditorium
Born in Addis Ababa in 1974, Aïda graduated with a degree from the Communication Department with a major in Film from Howard University in Washington D.C. Her photography can be found in several publications and also in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, Hood Museum and the Museum of Biblical Art in the USA. She is the 2007 recipient of the EU Prize in the Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie, in Bamako. As well as the 2010 winner of the CRAF International Award of Photography in Spilimbergo, Italy. She has been a jury member on several photography competitions including the Sony World Photography Awards 2017 and the World Press Photo Contest 2017. Aida is the founder of the Addis Foto Fest (AFF), the first international photography festival in East Africa held since 2010.She continues develop cultural projects with local and international institutions through her company DFA PLC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.