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Lecture Series in the Visual Arts
The USM Art Galleries and USM Art Department are hosting 3 speakers for the fall Lecture Series in the Visual Arts.
The lectures are free and open to the public.
School and community groups are welcome to attend. For more
information or access inquiries, please call 780-5008.
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Aaron Stephan, Lift, charcoal on paper, 2004, drawing for sculpture in the new Abromson Community Center, Portland Campus.
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Art Gallery -
Gorham campus
Aaron Stephan
October 20, 4:15 p.m.
Bailey Hall, Rm 10
Portland
artist Aaron Stephan, will give a talk Thursday, October 20, 4:15 p.m.
in Room 10 of Bailey Hall on the Gorham campus. Stephan has exhibited
his works in the Portland area as well as in Boston, Brooklyn, and
Connecticut. Influenced by philosophy, Stephan explores unusual
ways of seeing everyday objects: the way we relate to them, their
location, meaning and culture. Commissioned as part of Maine’s Percent
for Art program, Stephan’s sculpture "LIFT" located in the atrium of
the University of Southern Maine’s new Joel and Linda Abromson
Community Education Center is wooden table with six chairs that stands
roughly 20 feet tall. Stephan received an M.F.A. from the Maine College
of Art and was the 2005 Louise Bourgeois fellow at the Yaddo artists
community in Saratoga Springs, NY. His work has been featured in many
of Maine’s leading exhibition spaces including the ICON Gallery, SPACE,
the ICA at MECA, The Hay Gallery, The Filament Gallery, and The Center
for Maine Contemporary Art.
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Ted Wolff
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Art Gallery -
Gorham Campus
Tedd Wolff
October 27
Brown bag lecture 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Opening reception gallery talk 6 p.m.
Ted
Wolff, accomplished author and art critic, will discuss the work of
Joyce Treiman from 11 a.m. -1 p.m., Thursday, October 27, at the USM
Art Gallery on the Gorham Campus. People are invited to bring a bag
lunch. A professional artist, art appraiser, and former art critic for
the Christian Science Monitor, Ted Wolff has written two books on
Morris Graves and a biography on Joyce Treiman. He previously lectured
at the Maine Coast Artists in Rockport and Portland Museum of Art. Wolf
will also hold a Gallery talk October 27 at 6 p.m., during the 4-7 p.m.
opening reception for Joyce Trieman: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints at
the USM Art Gallery , Gorham campus.
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Lissa Hunter
Loss
Mixed media, 2004
12" x 34" x 4"
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Art Gallery -
Gorham Campus
Lissa Hunter
Nov 17, 11am-12pm
Bailey Hall, Rm 10
Nationally known artist Lissa Hunter will give a talk Thursday,
November 17, from 11 a.m.-noon in Room 10 of Bailey Hall, Gorham
campus. Hunter explores the coiled basket form for sculptural
possibilities far beyond its traditional beginnings. Hunter's the use
of varied materials and other structural techniques expands the
possibilities of expression of ideas, ranging from world politics to
family histories and loss. She is represented by the Nancy Margolis
Gallery, N.Y.. Her work is widely exhibited in the United States and is
in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery,
Washington DC , the Museum of Art and Design, New York N.Y., and Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston MA. Hunter received her MFA, Textile Design,
Indiana University, Bloomington IN and a BA in Painting, from Indiana
University, Bloomington IN. This talk is rescheduled due to snow
cancellation in Spring 2005.
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