Guest Lecture Series
Gage Academy, 1501 10th Ave. E, Seattle
Geo Studio, Room 304, Third Floor
Each quarter, to enrich Seattle's arts discourse, Gage hosts lively lectures with working professional artists and art historians. The public is invited to attend these FREE events.
Past guests have included Mary Iverson, John Sisko, Victoria Adams, Kimberly Trowbridge, Marita Dingus and Scott Fife among many others.
(pictured at right: Jumbo by Mary Iverson, 2009 guest lecturer)
The Role of Representation
in Contemporary Art:
There Is a There There
with Richard V. West
Friday, February 5, 7:00pm
What happened to serious representational art in the twentieth century? During the past 50 years, avant-garde culture and practice seemingly appropriated many of the traditional roles of representation, from the monumental to personal expression. Even kitsch has been absorbed and celebrated. Is post-modern irony the answer to everything? West’s talk proposes that representation is alive, well and flourishing even though many art critics haven’t noticed. But not necessarily in the expected places. The notion of representation is being reshaped in a number of ways and animated by new sources of energy and subject matter ranging from cinema to hot rod painting to underground comics. How will this new surge of energy shape future developments and enhance the traditional subject matter of representation?
Richard V. West is Director Emeritus of the Frye Art Museum. He has also been director of several other museums during his 44- year career, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine. A two-time Ford Fellow, West completed his graduate work in art history at the University of California, Berkeley and the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste in Vienna.
Art by Norman Lundin
Observing Our Seeing;
Seeing Our Sight
with Carol Mallett Adelman
Friday, February 26, 7:00pm
In this engaging guest lecture, Adelman addresses conventions of female representation and identity in relation to her practice of self portraiture. Adelman also discusses how her fluid treatment of the paint itself reinforces her focus on fluctuating between concrete representation and illusion.
In addition to her work as a painter, Adelman has assumed multiple roles in the visual arts while working as an educator, writer and curator. She has taught at educational institutions across the United States, including Dickinson College, Louisiana State University and the University of Washington. Adelman curated and managed the Kittredge Gallery at University of Puget Sound in Tacoma from 2007 to 2009.
Art detail by Carol Mallett Adelman
Artist and Author:
Portrait Painting Atelier
with Suzanne Brooker
Friday, March 26, 7:00pm
Join teaching artist Suzanne Brooker March as she describes the painting process of achieving luminous color through toned grounds and indirect painting methods. An instructor at the Gage for the last 10 years, Brooker shares her technical approach as well as her insights in how to think as a painter. Her book, Portrait Painting Atelier: Old Master Techniques and Contemporary Applications, provides an intensive course of study for the intermediate artist from basic studio practices to observational studies. As a “how-to” book, Portrait Painting clearly explains how and why each step is taken, augmented by illustrations that demonstrate specific techniques.
Brooker received her BFA degree at the California Institute of the Arts, attended by invitation the Whitney Museum Independent Study program in New York City and pursued her drawing studies at the School of Visual Arts. She returned to the West Coast and studied life drawing with Gary Fagin at Gage and completed her MFA in figurative painting under Domenic Cretara at California State University, Long Beach.
