Art Events

Spring 08 Lecture Series
All lectures are held from 7:30–8:30 pm in the Danforth Lecture Hall and are free and open to the public.

Curator Marcia Tanner in conversation with Jean Shin and Claudia X. Valdes
January 23, 2008

Michael Rees*
February 13, 2008

Mills College Visiting Artist Samara Halperin in conversation with Anne Walsh and Gail Wight
February 20, 2008

Yu Hong
February 27, 2008

Marisa Olson
March 12, 2008

Dave Muller*
March 19, 2008

Charlotte Cotton**
April 3, 2008, 6:45pm

Hou Hanru
April 9, 2008

For more information: http://millslectureseries.blogspot.com/

*The Mills College MFA Lecture Series is made possible by the Herringer Family Foundation

**Supported by the Correnah W. Wright Endowed Fund and Herringer Family Foundation

Fall 07 Lecture Series

Kinke Kooi
September 19, 2007

Laleh Khorramian
September 23, 2007

Carrie Moyer
October 17, 2007

Hank Willis Thomas
October 24, 2007 

Through his B®anded series, Hank Willis Thomas explores the language and effects of advertising as applied to the black male body in relation to a historical context. He uses the ubiquitous language of advertising to spawn conversations about social and historical issues that have been too easily accepted. His photographs have been published in numerous books and publications, including 25 Under 25: American Photographers, Black: A Celebration of a Culture, and Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photographers. Thomas' work has been exhibited at galleries and museums nationally and internationally, most recently the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art. He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award and has been commissioned to collaborate on an installation for the Oakland International Airport.

Richard Shaw
November 7, 2007

In the world of contemporary ceramics, Richard Shaw is the master of trompe-l'oeil sculpture. He has developed an astonishing array of techniques, including perfectly cast porcelain objects and overglaze transfer decals. Emerging from the San Francisco Bay area in the late 1960s, he has long been affiliated with the Funk movement. His body of work involves appropriation from mass culture, developing a vocabulary of found objects that form intimate still life sculpture, complex figures, and personally referential assemblage.

Deborah Oropallo
November 14, 2007
Berkeley-based painter Deborah Oropallo uses digital photography as a basis for her paintings and prints that explore the polarity between the real and abstract, and the photograph and paint. In her recent work, Oropallo both deconstructs and enhances images to investigate the power and seduction that is evoked by gesture and pose. She layers images of contemporary women in provocative costumes, borrowed from the Internet, with images of men from 17th- and 18th-century portrait paintings. Through this re-employment of the vast symbolism of classic portraiture, Oropallo raises issues about gender, costume, fantasy, potency, power and hierarchy. Oropallo has shown at galleries and museums throughout the United States, including a recent solo exhibition at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. She is a recent recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award.