Tuesday, March 6th, 1 p.m.
5410 Boylan Hall; free
Artist Lecture Series; Ridley Howard
Ridley Howard will join the MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Ridley Howard born in Atlanta, Georgia, is a Contemporary artist based in Brooklyn, known for his large, intimate portraits of anonymous subjects in private settings. Howard is a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He is represented by Leo Koenig, Inc., New York City.
Monday, March 26th, 1 p.m.
5410 Boylan Hall; free
Artist Lecture Series: Caroline Wells Chandler
Caroline Wells Chandler will join the MFA Visiting Artist Lectures Series. Caroline Wells Chandler lives and works in New York. Chandler is a 2011 MFA recipient in painting at the Yale School of Art where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. Caroline Wells Chandler’s practice represent the spectrum of gender non-conforming bodies, creating a new language of figuration that challenges traditional portrayals of the body. Open to the public.
Tuesday, April 10th, 1 p.m.
5410 Boylan Hall; free
Artist Lecture Series: David Altmejd
David Altmejd will join the MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series. David Altmejd is a New York–based artist recognized for his sculptures and installations depicting mythic, anthropomorphic beings and uncanny moments of metamorphosis. Altmejd rose to prominence through inclusion in the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Open to the public.
Tuesday, April 24th, 1 p.m.
5410 Boylan Hall; free
Artist Lecture Series: Betty Tompkins
Betty Tompkins will join the MFA Visiting Artists Lecture Series. Betty Tompkins (born 1945) is an American artist. Tompkins has been noted as a pioneer of feminist art. Tompkins is a painter whose works revolve, almost exclusively, around photorealistic, close-up imagery of both heterosexual and homosexual intimate acts. P.P.O.W Gallery in New York, Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels, and Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles and Palm Beach, Florida currently represent her. Open to the public.
