Jens Hoffmann Rescheduled - Dec 7

About Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a writer and curator of exhibitions. He has worked as a curator since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He is currently a curator for the CIAC FOundation in Mexico City and Curatorial Director of the 101 Collection in San Francisco. He has curated over 30 exhibitions internationally since the late 1990s. Most recently he was co-curator of the 2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico, 2009 and is currently co-curating, with Harrell Fletcher, the People's Biennial, to be held in 2010 at five US museums, organized by Independent Curators International in New York. In 2009 Hoffmann founded The Exhibitionist: A Journal for Exhibition Making. He was nominated by the Menil Collection in Houston for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2008.

Hoffmann was trained as a theater director and studied Stage Directing, Dramaturgy and Cultural Sociology at the Ernst Busch School for Performing Arts in Berlin. He holds an MA in Theater from DasArts – School for Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies in Amsterdam.

Studio visit already posted

Lecture 7:30 pm

John Knight - Group Discussion, 7:00pm Monday Nov 16th @ Warner Studios








Since the late 1960s, the project of John Knight has managed to negate easy categorization, by assuming an immediate and critical distance from the overly generalized label of Conceptual Art. Instead, Knight assumed a more singular position, by not hesitating to re-employ object/subjects within the vernacular, beyond the simple reinterpretation of the ready made, or simulacrum, as in the case of so many other contemporary artists working at the same time. Recent projects include, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2008), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello / EAAC (2008), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008), Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009) and at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Macba (2009). He recently had an exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art and is lecturing at the Hammer museum Nov 12th at 7pm. He lives in Los Angeles and works in situ.


In liu of studio visits, John Knight will be leading a group discussion centered around his practices oscillation within and outside of art discourse and other social/economic structures. John has settled on the group discussion as his preferred format so feel free to bring any topics to the discussion. Here are some supplementary documents on his practice since most of it is difficult to present through visual documentation:

Who's Afraid of JK? interview with Benjamin Buchloh and Isabelle Graw:
http://www.textezurkunst.de/59/whos-afraid-of-jk-en/

Knights Moves, essay by Benjamin Buchloh:
www.computerwebsite.net/KnightsMoves_Buchloh.pdf


I would also highly recommend attending his hammer lecture tonight at 7pm:
http://hammer.ucla.edu/calendar/detail/type/program/id/319

Josephine Pryde Visits

Studio Visits for Josephine Pryde:

1:00-alexis
1:45-chadwick
2:30-kelly
3:15-nan
4:00-job
4:45-sanya

Josephine Pryde - Monday Nov 2

Josephine Pryde was born in 1967 in Alnwick, United Kingdom. Her most recent exhibition was in 2008 at Galerie

Bleich-Rossi and Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna with Sarah Staton:How They Met: Part 1 – Mother and Her House

and How They Met: Part 2 – Sex.

Josephine Pryde has exhibited in North America with Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York and in Europe with Galerie

Neu, Berlin and Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne. Since 2008, she has been Professor for Contemporary Photography

at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

Her first solo exhibition in LA opens saturday Oct 31st(tomorrow). Please attend if you can:

http://www.tellesfineart.com/exhibitions.html

Images/interview/reviews: http://www.reenaspaulings.com/JP.htm

Images/text: http://www.secession.at/art/2004_pryde_e.html

Images/Bio: http://www.galerieneu.net/artists/show/id/9

Visits will be at:

1:00
1:45
2:30
3:15
4:00
4:45

7pm: Lecture

Sign up will be posted at noon on Oct 31st(tomorrow)

Marilyn Minters Sign Ups Closed - Thurs Oct 22

Studio Visits will be Thursday Oct. 22 :

2-2:45 - Jane Parshall

2:45-3:30 - Jeff Hastings

3:30-4:15 - Ryan

4:15-5:00 - Alexis

Please sign up in the comments section.

Marilyn Minters - Thursday Oct 22

Marilyn Minter’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including a solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005 and the 2006 Whitney Biennial. In September, the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and La Conservera in Murcia, Spain will present installations of her work, including large scale projections of her video Green Pink Caviar. Green Pink Caviar was featured in Madonna’s recent European tour and will grace digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard as part of a public art project that coincides with her first exhibition at Regen Projects in October.

Click on the link below to watch Marilyn Minter's favorite YouTube videos of Green Pink Caviar on Madonna's Sticky and Sweet tour:

http://www.greenpinkcaviar.com/tour.php

Studio Visits will be Thursday Oct. 22 :

2-2:45

2:45-3:30

3:30-4:15

4:15-5:00

Sign ups will be post Wednesday Oct. 21 at 1:55 pm

Jens Hoffmann - Monday Oct 26 Sign Ups Closed

Sign-up in the comments section.

Monday Oct 26

3:30 - Kelly

3:50 - Tejpal

4:10 - david zuttermeister

4:30 - Alexis

4:50 - Meleko

5:10 - Max

5:30 - Jane Jin Kaisen

5:50 - Katrina

Warner Talk at 7:30

Jens Hoffmann - Monday Oct 26

About Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a writer and curator of exhibitions. He has worked as a curator since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He is currently a curator for the CIAC FOundation in Mexico City and Curatorial Director of the 101 Collection in San Francisco. He has curated over 30 exhibitions internationally since the late 1990s. Most recently he was co-curator of the 2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico, 2009 and is currently co-curating, with Harrell Fletcher, the People's Biennial, to be held in 2010 at five US museums, organized by Independent Curators International in New York. In 2009 Hoffmann founded The Exhibitionist: A Journal for Exhibition Making. He was nominated by the Menil Collection in Houston for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2008.

Hoffmann was trained as a theater director and studied Stage Directing, Dramaturgy and Cultural Sociology at the Ernst Busch School for Performing Arts in Berlin. He holds an MA in Theater from DasArts – School for Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies in Amsterdam.

Sign up will be posted 11AM Monday October 19
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Monday Oct 26

3:30

3:50

4:10

4:30

4:50

5:10

5:30

5:50

Talk at 7:30

Abraham Cruzvillegas - Monday Oct 5

Sign-up in the comments section.

3:00 - Chadwick

3:30 - Tejpal

4:00 - Abbey

4:30 - Katie

5:00 - Kelly

5:30 - Timo

Talk at 7:30

Larry Johnson: Thusday, October 8

Studio Visits (no talk)

Sign up will open Friday, October 2 at 10:00 am.
Please sign up for times in the comments section then.


Check out the following links:
UCLA Hammer Museum
Patrick Painter from a 2007 show
Frieze from 1994
and the article in the recent (May?) Artforum

sign up times:
1:00--Job
1:50--David Z
2:40--Ragen
3:30--Alexis
4:20--Peter
5:10--Catlin
6:00--Sanya

Nicholas Brown - Monday October 5th

Nicholas Brown is curator of Red Bull 381 Projects in Toronto. He is on the Board of C Magazine and is editor of Colour magazine. He completed his Master of Art - Art History - at York University (Toronto) having written on the re-enactment work, Battle of Orgreave (2001), of Jeremy Deller.

Here are links to his work:

Link 1
Redbull projects 381, link 1, link 2, and link3

Sign up will begin Friday, 10/2 at 10:15 am

45 minute meetings: on Monday October 5th
sign up for a time slot by posting a comment:

12:45- Dashiell
1:30- Ian
2:15- Katrina
3:00- Sara A.
3:45- Alexis
4:30- Abby
David Z.
and he is willing to hang around later if all these slots fill up

Abraham Cruzvillegas - Monday Oct 5

Studio Visits and Talk Monday Oct 5

The Mexican artist is best known for his sculptures that transform everyday objects, such as found scrap wood and weathered buoys, into elegant compositions. Updating Duchamp's readymade technique while reflecting the specific locale of where the materials were sourced, his work highlights specific socio-economic circumstances around production. The artist plays the role of a scavenger, finding value in the discarded. Abraham Cruzvillegas studied Philosophy and Fine Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he was a student of Gabriel Orozco.

See his work at:

http://www.kurimanzutto.com/english/artists/abraham-cruzvillegas.html

Abraham Curzvillegas's solo exhibition, Autoconstrucción: The Film, is currently on exhibition at RedCat Gallery in the Roy and Edna Disney Theater, Downtown Los Angeles.

Upcoming Events at RedCat include:

Sunday, October 4 | 7pm

Live Improvisational Score by David J & Marcelo Radulovich

with theatrical screening of Autoconstrucción: The Film

http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/abraham-cruzvillegas

Sign up will open Friday, October 2 at 11:00 am.
Please sign up for times in the comments section then.

3:00

3:30

4:00

4:30

5:00

5:30

talk at 7:30

Runa Islam's Meetings Change Slightly...

The following students' meetings moved to Friday at the request of the artist. Joli should have emailed you but in case you just check this...changes for:

3:15 pm Ryan
4:00 pm David (Dogger)

Thursday, May 14
10:00 am Jane P.
10:45 am Asha
11:30 am Chadwick

Please email Joli back about rescheduling. Sorry for the inconvenience...

Ricky Swallow talk

Ricky Swallow will be giving a talk at Warner on May 21st at 7 pm. More on him here.

Marie Thibeault talk at Warner

Marie Thibeault will be giving a talk at Warner on Thursday, May 7th at 7pm.
Her work can be viewed here.

Runa Islam sign-up sheet

Monday, May 11
10:00am Sarah
10:45am Erica
11:30am Max
12:15 Lunch break
1:15 pm Maegan
2:00 pm Meleko

Wednesday, May 13
10:00am Caitlin
10:45 am Katrina
11:30 am Job
12:15 pm Lunch Break
1:15 pm Jeff
2:00 pm Sanya
2:45 pm 30-minute break
3:15 pm Ryan
4:00 pm David (Dogger)

Thursday, May 14
10:00 am Jane P.
10:45 am Asha
11:30 am Chadwick

Runa Islam return visits

Runa Islam will be back for her spring visit as Art Council Chair (May 11-15). Sign-up sheets for the following times will go up this Thursday at 4 pm. If you have already met with her and feel another visit would be of benefit that's fine. Please sign up in the comments of that post, not this one.

Monday, May 11
10:00am 
10:45am 
11:30am 
12:15 Lunch break 
1:15 pm 
2:00 pm

Wednesday, May 13 
10:00am 
10:45 am 
11:30 am 
12:15 pm Lunch Break 
1:15 pm 
2:00 pm 
2:45 pm 30-minute break 
3:15 pm 
4:00 pm

Thursday, May 14 
10:00 am 
10:45 am 
12:15 pm

Jordan Kantor sign-up sheet

Studio Visits April 23rd

4-430

430-5

5-530

530-6 Sanya

Sign up in the comments.

Jordan Kantor talk and studio visits

Painter Jordan Kantor will be doing a talk and studio visits on Thursday April 23rd. The talk will be at 7 pm. More info here.

Visits will be 30 mins each, from about 4pm-6pm. Sign up sheet will go up Tuesday at 5pm. Since we have not had a lot of painters doing studio visits, the four visits should probably go to painters.

Judie Bamber talk at Warner

Judie Bamber will be giving a talk at Warner this Thursday, April 9th at 7pm.
Her work can be viewed here.
An article about her can be viewed here.

Runa Islam Screening

Runa Islam will be doing a talk and screening at Warner on Wednesday March 11th at 2:30 pm.

Maria Nordman sign ups-Closed

She will be doing visits from 8-10 or so, depending when her talk ends, so....

1-Caitlin
2-Chadwick
3-Katie
4-Ryan

Maria Nordman

Maria Nordman will be doing 4 studio visits after her talk, from about 8pm-10pm
Sign-up sheet will go up at 5 pm tuesday March 3rd.




http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D61531F933A05752C1A966958260
http://marianordman.net/
http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Maria-Nordman.68.html

Runa Islam Signup Sheet

Please specify which day you are interested in. We are also looking for volunteers to drive her back to Westwood at the end of each day.

Monday March 9th
10-1045 Matt M-H
1045-1130 Asha
1130-1215 Erica
1215-1 Chadwick
1-145 Sanya
145-230 Katie
Wednesday March 11th
10-1045 Katrina
1045-1130 Olga
1130-1215 Job
1215-1 Whitney
145-230 David
Thursday March 12th
10-1045 J.R.
1045-1130 Nan
1130-1215 Jane Parshall
1215-1 Anton
1-145 Max
145-230 Jane Jin Kaisen

Runa Islam

Runa Islam is coming to do studio visits for a number of days March 9th-13th.
More info on her here.
She will be doing up to 18 visits, depending how many people sign up.
Monday March 9th
10-2:30
Wednesday March 11th
10-2:30
Thursday March 12th
10-2:30

Sign-up sheet will go up Friday Feb 27th at 6 pm (today).

Alex Nagel Sign Up Sheet-Closed

Please sign up in the comments below.
Meetings will be available on February 27th at:

1:30- 2:15 Anne
2:15- 3:00 Sanya
3:00- 3:45 Chadwick
3:45- 4:30 Sarah
4:30-5:15 Jane Parshall
5:15- 6:00 Ryan

Alex Nagel Studio Visits and Talk

Art historian Alex Nagel will be doing studio visits and a talk at Warner this Friday, February 27th. His lecture, The Medieval and the Contemporary will be at 6:30pm in Center Bay.

Full Professor at NYU in Renaissance Art and Art Theory

Curator for exhibition at ApexArt in New York
Alex is here for the CAA Conference where he will be participating in the following session: Altars, Relics, and Ascetics: The Invention of Religion in Contemporary Art on Friday, February 27, 9:30am–12:00pm. Alex's talk is titled: Non-Site-Specificity: Robert Smithson and the Holy Land which he will also be discussing with us in the Center Bay.

Available visits:

1:30- 2:15

2:15- 3:00
3:00- 3:45
3:45- 4:30
4:30-5:15
5:15- 6:00

Sign up sheet will go up this Wednesday Feb 25th at 10 am.

Yto Barrada studio visits signup sheet

10:00-10:45 Katrina
10:45-11:30 Whitney
11:30-12:15 Jane jin kaisen
12:15-1:00 Maegan
1:00-1:45 J.R.
1:45-2:30 Alex

Via Lewandowsky Studio Visits

11-1145 Isaac

1145-1230 Max

1230-115 Peter

115-2 Erica

2-245 Maegan

245-330 Nan

Yto Barrada studio visits

Yto Barrada will be coming to Warner to do studio visits on Wed Feb 25. She will do six visits from 10:00 am-2:30pm.Sign-up Sheet will go up Monday Feb 23 at 4 pm. Please sign up in that post, not in the comments of this one.
Her website is here. She is also in a show at the Fowler museum on the UCLA campus.

Via Lewandowsky Studio Visits sign up sheet

11-1145

1145-1230

1230-115

115-2

2-245

245-330

Via Lewandowsky talk & Studio Visits

Berlin based artist Via Lewandowsky (Currently showing work at LACMA's Art of two Germanys) will be doing a talk and studio visits at Warner on  March 2nd. He will be talking at 4 pm in center bay.

His website is here.

Available visits:

11:00-11:45

11:45-12:30

12:30-1:15

1:15-2:00

2:00-2:45

2:45-3:30

Sign up sheet will go up Saturday Feb 21st at 11 am

Other Schools

Here are the Spring lecture schedules for some other schools...

Cal Arts
Art Center
USC

Catherine Sullivan Studio Visits-Closed

10-10:45: Alex
10:45-11:30: Chadwick
11:30-12:15: Jane
12:15-1: Asha
1-1:45: Olga
1:45-2:30: Erica

Catherine Sullivan Studio Visits

Catherine Sullivan will be doing studio visits Thursday Feb 19th. Sign-up sheet will be posted online Wednesday the 11th at 10am. The visits will be 45 mins, and go from 10-2:30.

Hans Haacke this Wednesday

Hans Haacke in conversation with Andrea Fraser this Wednesday, February 11th, at 11:30am in Center Bay. Please come ready to participate with your questions and concerns.

Upcoming Visitors

This is a sneak preview of what's to come. All of these events of course are tentative, and it is not totally determined yet who is doing visits, talks, or both.

Feb 19th: Catherine Sullivan Studio visits and talk at The Hammer
Feb 23rd: Via Lewandowsky at Warner
Feb 26th: Mary Kelly talk at The Hammer
Feb 27th: Art historian Alex Nagel
March 9th: Runa Islam
March 12th: Marie Thibeault talk at Warner
April 9th: Judie Bamber talk at Warner
April 15th: Ricky Swallow talk at Warner
April 23rd: Jordan Kantor

Arthur Russell Documentary Screening and Director talk at Warner

At 8 PM on Thursday Feb 5th Director Matt Wolf will present his Documentary "Wild Combination", a: "portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators—including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg—to tell this poignant and important story."

More info here:
http://www.arthurrussellmovie.com

Meetings with Ron Amstutz

Meetings on January 22nd:

2:00-2:45 Whitney
2:45-3:30 Katrina
3:30-4:15 Ryan
4:15-5:00 Eben
5:00-5:45 Maegan

Ron Amstutz Sign Up Sheet

Please sign up in the comments.
Meetings will be available on January 22nd at:

2:00-2:45
2:45-3:30
3:30-4:15
4:15-5:00
5:00-5:45

Ron Amstutz visits January 22

UCLA alumna and New York-based artist Ron Amstutz will be doing a talk and studio visits on January 22. His video and photo works can be viewed here:

Ron Amstutz's personal website
Most recent show in his New York gallery: Wallspace
Brooklyn Rail

Studio visits will be as follows:
2:00-2:45
2:45-3:30
3:30-4:15
4:15-5:00
5:00-5:45

A sign up sheet will automatically be posted on this blog on January 20 at 10am
The talk will be January 22 at 6:30pm