Jun 4th 2016

Lake Cream Artist Talks

@ Block Museum

40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, Illinois 60208

Opening Saturday, June 4th, from 1PM - 4PM

ARTIST TALKS:
Saturday June 4, 1:00PM – 4:00 PM

Max Guy Artist Talk 1:00pm
Max Guy will discuss time, entropy and the aesthetic interests that informed his pieces. He has worked in collage, print, photography and installation to contemplate existence within a society of mass mediation and technology. Max will also address the art work of Ellsworth Kelly, Rammellzee, Henri Matisse and Japan’s Edo period in the context of his own work and day to day experiences.

Erin Hayden in Conversation with Danny Snelson 2:00pm
Erin Hayden will discuss her work with Danny Snelson, Mellon postdoc in the Digital Humanities, jointly appointed in the Kaplan Humanities Institute and the English Department. They will discuss the intersections of their artistic research and complexities of the digital mediums as tools for source material as well as being spaces for art and poetry to exist.

David Sprecher Reading 3:00pm
David Sprecher will read selections from his virtual exhibition ‘Plumb’

May 5–June 19, 2016 Block Museum’s Alsdorf Gallery

This exhibition presents work by:

Lilli Carré,
Max Guy,
Erin Hayden,
Dan Miller, and
David Sprecher

Culminating their Master of Fine Arts (MFA) studies in the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University.

Co-organized by the Department of Art Theory & Practice and the Block Museum, Northwestern University. Support provided by the Norton S. Walbridge Fund; The Cary Lane Art Supply Fund Cary courtesy of Dr. Madeleine Wing Adler; Myers Foundations; the Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund; and the Alsdorf Endowment.

This exhibition will be closed to the public for an Art Theory and Practice departmental program on Friday, May 6 from 10AM-3PM.

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