Cyríaco Lopes November 9th, 2009
Criminals (Rio de Janeiro), 2008-present Cyríaco Lopes
Lecture and Reception:
Oakland University Art Gallery, Monday November 09, 2009 at 5:30 pm. All are welcome to attend.
The artworks of Cyríaco Lopes deal with language, sexual identity, and cultural translation. They encompass video, installation, and photography – all approached with an experimental sensibility. Conceptually, his work investigates the fissure between abstract/absolute concepts, and their unstable incarnation as signifiers. Lopes explores the politics of cultural exchanges and national identity through his own experience as an expatriate from Brazil in the U.S.. Being a gay man, his interests also lie in his ambiguous and partially visible place in society (participating in all civic duties, but having only limited civic rights), language being his preferred site to explore the interstitial spaces in the fabric of meaning.
Lopes has exhibited his works in Brazil (Centro Cultural São Paulo, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio, Museu de Arte Moderna de Salvador, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio), France (Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in Paris, Centre D’Art Contemporain Faux Mouvement in Metz), Germany (Artforum 3 in Freiburg), Portugal (Universidade de Coimbra), Italy (La Casa Degli Artisti Milano), and throughout the U.S. (El Museo del Barrio in New York City, The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, The Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis). He is also the recipient of many prestigious awards (Prêmio Phillips, World Studio Foundation) and residencies (Skowhegan, the London Project). Currently, Lopes is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Art and Music at John Jay College/CUNY.
T. Kim-Trang Tran October 19th, 2009
Blindness Series © 1992-2006 T. Kim-Trang Tran
Lecture and Reception:
Oakland Center Gold Room B&C, Monday, October 19, 2009 5:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
This event is being funded by a Judd Family Endowed Humanities Award Grant and sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History.
T. Kim-Trang Tran was born in Viet Nam and emigrated to the U.S. in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has been producing experimental videos since the early 1990's. Her work has been exhibited internationally. In 1999 Tran presented her Blindness Series in a solo screening at the Museum of Modern Art. Two of her videos were included in the Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Blindness Series was featured at the 46th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, both in 2000. This video project, an eight-tape series investigating blindness and its racial/socio-political metaphors, was completed in 2006.
T. Kim-Trang Tran has been nominated for a CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts and was named a 2001 Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellow. The fellowship enabled her to develop an experimental narrative feature screenplay titled Call Me Sugar, based on the life of her mother, which is in the final round for the 2009 Sundance Screenwriter's Lab.
She also collaborated with Karl Mihail on a project known as Gene Genies Worldwide©™ (http://www.genegenies.com). Their conceptual and public artworks on genetic engineering have exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, Exit Art, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College and elsewhere in the U.S. T. Kim-Trang Tran is currently an Associate Professor of Art and the Director of the Humanities Institute at Scripps College.
Sandy Skoglund October 9th, 2008
Fresh Hybrid © 2008 Sandy Skoglund
Alison Norlen November 5th, 2008
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