Artist Lecture with Marc Trujillo and Quattlebaum Artist-In-Residence Robert Storr

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Artist Lecture with Marc Trujillo and Quattlebaum Artist-In-Residence Robert Storr

September 16, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+0

FREE

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This talk is in correlation to the “Marc Trujillo:

American Purgatory” exhibition on view from August 26 – October 7 at the Halsey Institute. Trujillo and Quattlebaum Artist-In-Residence Robert Storr will discuss themes in the exhibition.

The paintings of Marc Trujillo portray quotidian scenes: fast-food restaurants, big-box store aisles, long terminal corridors of airports, and so on. The scenes are remarkably unremarkable. In their ubiquitous nature, the paintings present an anti-place: scenes that refer not to a specific place, but to uncannily similar tableaus that unfold every day in communities across America. While Trujillo models his paintings after specific locations, usually in the Los Angeles area, his scenes appear strikingly similar to viewers’ own relationships with local commerce. His paintings critique a hallmark of modern capitalism: one that aims to recreate identical commercial experiences across the country. With the title American Purgatory, Trujillo’s exhibition presents a body of work in which each painting locates a place that is not a place.

Robert Storr joins the Halsey Institute and the School of the Arts at the College of Charleston as the 2017 Quattlebaum Artist-in-Residence.

Robert Storr is an artist, critic, and curator based in New York City.

Storr was the curator, and then senior curator, of the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1990 to 2002. Following his tenure at MoMA, he became the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University until 2006. He then served as Dean of the Yale School of Art for the next ten years. From 2005 to 2007, he was visual arts director for the Venice Biennale, becoming the first American to assume this position. He has been a contributing editor at Art in America since 1981. Storr also writes for Artforum, Frieze, and Corriere della Sera and has authored catalogues on Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, and Philip Guston. He has received a Penny McCall Foundation Grant for painting, a Norton Family Foundation Curator Grant, and many more awards for his contributions to art criticism and scholarship.

Artist Lecture with Marc Trujillo and Quattlebaum Artist-In-Residence Robert Storr

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Date:
September 16, 2017
Time:
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm UTC+0
Cost:
FREE
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http://halsey.cofc.edu/events/

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