Pier 24 Photography is pleased to announce the Spring 2012 Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program in collaboration with California College of the Arts and SFMOMA.
Past Lectures
Lecture by LaToya Ruby Frazier
April 10, 2012 / 7pm
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, SF Campus
Free and open to the public
LaToya Ruby Frazier's photography and video work employs such themes as the body and landscape, familial and communal history, private and public space, and human complexity. Frazier's nine-year artistic collaboration with her family has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and The Village Voice.
Her work was included in the exhibition Greater New York at P.S.1 MoMA and Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and has been exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Higher Pictures Gallery. Frazier's work was featured in the 2011 International Incheon Women Artists' Biennial in Korea, and is included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
Frazier was recently awarded a 2012 Creative Capital Grant for Visual Arts. She is a featured artist on the new Art21 online documentary series New York Close Up. Frazier received her BFA in Applied Media Arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Photography from Syracuse University. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Art Omi, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
LaToya Ruby Frazier: www.latoyarubyfrazier.com
Lecture by Jason Fulford
March 2, 2012 / 7pm
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, SF Campus
Free and open to the public
"Sometimes if you see something so completely unremarkable, it’s heartbreaking. I don’t know why. Sometimes if you see something so totally ridiculous and straightforward, it’s also heartbreaking. It gives you this weird feeling where your eyes swell up and you can’t decide whether to laugh
or cry." - Jason Fulford, 2005
Jason Fulford has been depicting "the simultaneous feeling of sad and funny" throughout his career. Born in Atlanta, GA, and now living in San Francisco, CA, Fulford has a BA from Pratt Institute in New York. His work has been exhibited in New York, Seattle, Copenhagen, Budapest, Atlanta and Kansas City, and has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Life, Newsweek, Suddeutche Zeitung, among many more.
His photographs have also graced the covers of books published by virtually every major publishing house - which is entirely fitting, as Fulford is co-founder of a book imprint himself (J&L Books, Inc., established 2001). A graphic designer and freelance commercial photographer as well as an artist, Fulford is the author of four books: The Mushroom Collector (2010), Raising Frogs for $ $ $ (2006), Crushed (2003), and Sunbird (2000). His project, The Mushroom Collection, is on view until April 2012 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Jason Fulford: http://jasonfulford.com
Lecture by Stephen Shore
February 23, 2012 / Lecture from 7-9pm
Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA
151 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
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In 1972, self-taught photographer Stephen Shore set out from his native New York City to Amarillo, Texas, on the first of what would become a decade's worth of road trips across America. Shore's trademark photographs of middle-American landscapes, interiors, and figures helped establish color photography as an accepted medium in the world of art. At age twenty-three, he was the second living photographer to have a one-man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Shore has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and Art Institute of Chicago. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts and, most recently, received a commission from the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art to document the United States in its current state of economic downturn. Since 1982, he has been the Director of the Photography Program at Bard College in New York State, where he serves as the Susan Weber Professor in the Arts.
Free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Tickets will be available for pick up on the day of the event at the Phyllis Wattis Theater entrance beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Alec Soth
November 29, 2011 / Doors Open at 6:30pm / Lecture from 7-9pm
Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA
Alec Soth's work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of 'on-the-road photography' developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Stephen Shore. He has received fellowships from the McKnight, Bush, and Jerome Foundations and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walker Art Center. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial and a career survey at the Jeu de Paume in 2008.
His first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then Soth has published NIAGARA (Steidl, 2006), Fashion Magazine (Magnum, 2007), and Dog Days, Bogotá (Steidl, 2007). He is represented by the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York and the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis.
Alec Soth: www.alecsoth.com/photography
Lecture by Cuny Janssen
November 16, 2011 / 7pm
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, SF campus
Free and open to the public
Cuny Janssen is an artist based in Amsterdam who works with photography and the photography book as art object. Alluding to a rich history of portraiture, her color images actively engage the portrait as psychological space and philosophical construct. In addition, Janssen often includes landscapes and environmental images that emphasize her attraction to the "resourcefulness of life" in both humans and nature.
Janssen's works have been shown at FOAM, (Amsterdam, Netherlands) The Photographer's Gallery, (London, UK) Paris Photo, (Paris, France) as well as many other international galleries and institutions.
Cuny Janseen: www.cunyjanssen.nl
Lecture by Walid Raad
October 28, 2011 / 7pm
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, SF campus
Free and open to the public
Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union in New York City. Raad's works to date include photography, installation, performance, video, and literary essays.
Raad's recent works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, with particular emphasis on the Lebanese wars of 1975-1991.
Walid Raad: www.theatlasgroup.org