Category Archives: Lectures

 Matthew Hansel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He earned a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA from the Yale University school of Art. He has been featured extensively in solo exhibitions, including at The Hole, NY, USA (2021), Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy (2018) and PM/AM, London, UK (2017). Hansel has also featured in… Read More

Carrie Ann Baade’s oil paintings dialog with the past through complex iconography and imagery that quote from Renaissance and Baroque canvases. She constructs layered narratives that resemble fantastical parables as her compositions interlace the strange beauty in the unexpected, the uncanny, the disregarded, and the unconventional. Her work rejects a rational vision of life in favor of one that asserts… Read More

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of How to Be an Artist, now, in Art Is Life: Icons & Iconoclasts, Visionaries & Vigilantes, & Flashes of Hope in the Night, Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times. Chronicling a period punctuated by dramatic… Read More

I’ve always been interested in portraying some kind of fantasy, then showing that it’s completely constructed. There are always dark messages hidden behind beauty, and the act of sculpting is about listening to that inner voice that warns you about something lurking beneath the surface. —Rachel Feinstein In richly detailed sculptures and multipart installations, Rachel Feinstein investigates and challenges the… Read More

Canadian artist Zachari Logan works mainly with large-scale drawing, ceramics and installation practices. Exploring the intersections between identity, memory and place,Logan re-wilds his body as an expression of queerness. Logan has exhibited widely throughout North America, Europe and Asia and is found in private and public collections worldwide, including; National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Remai Modern, McMichael… Read More

Kyle Staver earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976 and her MFA from Yale University in 1987. In 2015, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize. She is a member of the National Academy ofDesign. She has had 2 solo exhibitions at… Read More

Matt Bollinger received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York, Los Angeles,Paris, and London. Recent museum exhibitions have been at the AkronArt Museum (2022),Westmoreland Museum of American Art (2022), South Bend Museum of Art (2020), theSchneider Museum (2018)… Read More

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE) Chris Cook, Executive Director In 2015, Chris Cook moved to Omaha, Nebraska from Miami, Florida to join the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts as the Executive Director. In this role he drives Bemis’s long-range strategies, provides creative direction, and oversees the financial advancement and operations of the 41-year old artist-founded nonprofit. In 2019… Read More

 This year the Academy’s Take Home a N*de returns honoring the inimitable Tracey Emin. In addition to being one of the most noted artists of our times, her recent shows have celebrated the figure on a large scale. Having recently recovered from cancer, her return to New York will make this Take Home a N*de an event not to… Read More

Christa Clarke is an Independent Curator and Senior Advisor at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Previously, she was curator of the arts of global Africa at The Newark Museum of Art, where her work was supported with major grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment of Humanities. During her sixteen-year tenure at Newark, she organized exhibitions on topics… Read More