Denise Markonish: A Spaceship, Wonder and Lots of Canadians: Curating at MASS MoCA
@ The Mary and Leigh Block Museum
40 Arts Cir Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Wednesday, April 9th, at 6PM
Denise Markonish (BA, Brandeis University; MA, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College) is the curator at MASS MoCA, where exhibitions have included Life’s Work: Tom Philips and Johnny Carrera); Oh, Canada (catalogue: MIT Press) Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum, Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge (catalogue: Yale University Press); Inigo Manglano-Ovalle: Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With (Catalogue: DAP); These Days: Elegies for Modern Times and Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape (catalogue: MIT Press). Markonish also co-edited with Susan Cross the publication Sol LeWitt: 100 Views (Yale University Press). Upcoming projects include: Teresita Fernandez: As Above So Below; Explode Everyday: An Inquiry into the Phenomena of Wonder co-curated with artist Sean Foley and a new commission with Nick Cave. Markonish recently taught at the Rhode Island School of Design; curated a project for the 2012 Luminato Festival in Toronto and will participate in 2014’s Nuit Blanche, Toronto. This lecture is part of the Art Theory and Practice Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and is made possible with generous support from The Myers Foundations. It is free and open to the public.
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