The RISD Photography Department is pleased to announce the following lectures this spring:
(All lectures begin at 7:00pm in the Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street. Free and open to the public)
Spring 2018 RISD Photo Gary Metz Lectures
Photo: A Country Built On Free Labor (Pose One ), 2018, Color Photograph, 50 by 60, Courtesy the Artist and David Castillo Gallery
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Xaviera Simmons
Xaviera Simmons' sweeping body of work spans photography, performance, choreography video, sound, sculpture, and installation. Working across these multiple media, Simmons’ interdisciplinary practice often repositions our understanding of memory, time, politics, character based narratives and the landscape. She defines her studio practice as rooted in an ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories- specifically revolving around shifting definitions of landscape, character development and the interconnectedness of formal processes.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Daniel Shea
Daniel Shea (b. 1985) lives and works in New York, New York. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a resident artist at Light Work (Syracuse) and Columbia College Chicago’s Digital Artist-In-Residence program, where he published his first book. He has published two photo books about a fictional coal town, Blisner, Ill. and Blisner, IL, in 2012 and 2014 respectively. 43-35 10th Street, a new artist book about contemporary architecture, is being published in 2018 by Kodoji Press, Switzerland.
Recent solo exhibitions include Blisner, at Gallery Space, London and 43-35 10th Street at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, where he is represented. He has recently been included in group exhibitions at Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL and Vava Gallery in Milan. He has exhibited at The DePaul Art Museum, The Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela, Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Asia Society in Beijing, among others. His work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Fantastic Man, M Le Monde, Sculpture Magazine, and The Fader. He is included in the recent Photography is Magic, published by Aperture (2015).
This Morning (2008), Kelli Connell
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Kelli Connell
Kelli Connell’s work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Australia, China, Denmark and Spain. Her work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Microsoft, The Haggerty Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Dallas Museum of Art. Publications of her work include MP3: Midwest Photographers’ Publication Project published by Aperture and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography published by Phaidon, Photo Art: The New World of Photography published by Aperture and Kelli Connell: Double Life, a monograph published by DECODE Books.