Monochrome Multitudes Artist Lecture: Dan Peterman

Monochrome Multitudes Artist Lecture: Dan Peterman

Lecture
CWAC 157
Add to Calendar 2022-10-13 18:00:00 2022-10-13 18:00:00 Monochrome Multitudes Artist Lecture: Dan Peterman In conjunction with the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series. ABOUT THE ARTIST Dan Peterman is Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a local leader with a long relationship to the University of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Department of Visual Art (MFA ’86) and has been an active lecturer in the department’s Open Practice Committee and other University units. He co-founded “The Experimental Station,” which has been an engine for revitalization and resource reuse ever since its founding in 2002 and built on over a decade of related prior work. As part of the Smart Museum’s 2000 exhibition Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman, Peterman produced the installation Excerpts from Universal Lab (Plan B), now in the permanent collection; it incorporated discarded objects from University laboratories and set up a new independent lab for idiosyncratic research. He revisited this work in the Smart Museum’s 2004 exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art. Recently, Peterman worked with University leadership to receive the construction model of the Rubenstein Forum for future use in his artistic practice. Beyond the University, Peterman is an internationally renowned artist. In addition to his recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, his work has been exhibited at Documenta 14, the Venice Biennial, the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, and the Kunsthalle Basel, among many others.   SCHEDULE September 29: Irena Haiduk October 6: Arturo Herrera October 13: Dan Peterman October 20: Sheila Hicks October 27: Amanda Williams November 3: Byron Kim November 17: Haegue Yang December 1: Tobias Rehberger SUPPORT Support for the Monochrome Multitudes artist lecture series has been provided by the Goethe-Institut and the following University of Chicago partners: Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Art of East Asia, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Art History, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts, and Wigeland Fund in the Division of the Humanities. CWAC 157 Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public
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In conjunction with the exhibition Monochrome Multitudes, the Smart Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, and University of Chicago partners present a quarter-long artist talk series.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Dan Peterman is Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a local leader with a long relationship to the University of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Department of Visual Art (MFA ’86) and has been an active lecturer in the department’s Open Practice Committee and other University units. He co-founded “The Experimental Station,” which has been an engine for revitalization and resource reuse ever since its founding in 2002 and built on over a decade of related prior work. As part of the Smart Museum’s 2000 exhibition Ecologies: Mark Dion, Peter Fend, Dan Peterman, Peterman produced the installation Excerpts from Universal Lab (Plan B), now in the permanent collection; it incorporated discarded objects from University laboratories and set up a new independent lab for idiosyncratic research. He revisited this work in the Smart Museum’s 2004 exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art. Recently, Peterman worked with University leadership to receive the construction model of the Rubenstein Forum for future use in his artistic practice. Beyond the University, Peterman is an internationally renowned artist. In addition to his recent exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, his work has been exhibited at Documenta 14, the Venice Biennial, the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, and the Kunsthalle Basel, among many others.  

SCHEDULE

SUPPORT

Support for the Monochrome Multitudes artist lecture series has been provided by the Goethe-Institut and the following University of Chicago partners: Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for the Art of East Asia, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Department of Art History, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, Open Practice Committee in the Department of Visual Arts, and Wigeland Fund in the Division of the Humanities.