LOGAN LECTURE SPRING
SERIES 2009:
Artists on Art—
FOCUS: THE FIGURE

With an eye towards the human form Focus: The Figure, the current major reinstallation of the Modern and Contemporary Art galleries, includes works from the DAM’s collection. Christoph Heinrich, the Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, has invited several artists featured in this exhibition to participate in the Spring series of the Logan lectures. The installation presents a dialogue between art and politics with many works commenting on issues of identity, gender and race. This Series is Presented by DAM Contemporaries and Generously supported by Vicki and Kent Logan.

Artists

Rachel Lachowicz | Wednesday,
February 18
In One Month Late and Untitled (Lipstick Urinals), Rachel Lachowicz explores the accepted gendered associations of materials and objects such as lipstick and neckties. Lachowicz appropriates Marcel Duchamp’s unquestionably masculine readymade, Fountain, 1917, by casting three miniature urinals in bright red lipstick. The result is a complex riddle of femininity vs. masculinity mixed with a satirical yet reverential salute to the history of art.

Fred Wilson | Wednesday, March 18
Fred Wilson investigates the marginalization of African-American artists in museums by addressing their historically selective presentation of Eurocentric art. Wilson rummages through museum collections and archives to excavate meaning. He repositions objects, artifacts and books from African cultures alongside those based on the classical tomes of antiquity. What emerges is a new dialogue offering a revised, recontextualized approach. Wilson represented the United States in the 2003 Venice Biennale.

Wes Hempel | Wednesday, April 15
A master of narrative and technique, Wes Hempel offers an academic approach to painting with a contemporary twist. Present-day characters exist within classical pastoral settings that are both surreal and familiar. Art-historically informed, Hempel challenges the tradition of the white heterosexual dominated world of painting that offers a limited view of the world in which we live.

Sandy Skoglund | Wednesday, May 20
With a combination of sculpture and dramatic use of color, Sandy Skoglund’s installation, Fox Games, evokes satirical entertainment. Appearing as random gestures, her invented realities are far from improvisations. As director, Skoglund casts characters in an egalitarian play where inanimate and animate objects are assigned leading roles within this all-encompassing theatrical environment.

Beverly Semmes | Wednesday, June 17
Architectural, corporeal and feminine, Beverly Semmes’ Four Purple Velvet Bathrobes sets off the dramatic architecture of the Daniel Libeskind-designed Hamilton Building. Her elongated forms emerge like ghosts from the angled walls in a sculpted landscape of fabric. The subtle movement of these immense rich velvet silhouettes is temptingly tactile, yet somberly static. Semmes’ work is a fusion of fabric, art and architecture.

Individual lectures:
$8 Students with ID
$12 DAMC members & artists
$15 DAM members
$18 Non-members

TIME & LOCATION:
Doors open at 6:00 pm
Lectures begin at 7:00 pm
Sharp Auditorium
Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building

MEET THE ARTIST!
Après lecture conversations with the artist at Mad Wine Bar. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres with some of the hottest artists working today! Cash bar.

Mad Wine Bar is located in Martin Plaza (across from the Hamilton Building) 1200 Acoma Street, Suite B

For further information and reservations,
call 720-913-0150