SFUAD Art Department Presents Artist Speaker Series
Nic Nicosia, Jeremy Thomas, and Harmony Hammond talk about their work in an open forum for students and the community
10.08.2012
Media Contact:
Lauren Eichmann
1-505-473-6440
lauren.eichmann@santafeuniversity.edu
Santa Fe, N.M.—Oct. 8, 2012—The Art Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design (SFUAD) is presenting an artist speaker series this fall, featuring Nic Nicosia (whose Sept. 27 lecture launched this year’s series), alumnus Jeremy Thomas (’00), and Harmony Hammond.
“One of the real nourishments of our Santa Fe community is the access to and support of important artists who live in New Mexico,” said Linda Swanson, chair of the SFUAD Art Department. “Through our lecture series and critiques, these accomplished artists share their inspiring work, their career wisdom and their personal insight, often with significant impact on a young artist. The three artists in this series are highly recognized nationally and even internationally, and they express a generous and curious spirit toward our students.”
All lectures, open to students and the public, will be followed by a Q&A with the artist.
Nic Nicosia
“Making Pictures”
Lecture and Q&A with the artist
Thursday, Sept. 27, 6 p.m.
Tipton Hall on the SFUAD campus
1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe, N.M.
"Concentration in Bits," courtesy of Nic Nicosia
Nic Nicosia is recognized as a pioneer of the staged photography movement that came into prominence in the early 1980s. Following a 1982 solo exhibition at Artists Space in New York, he was included in the 1983 Whitney Biennial and the Guggenheim’s 1983 Exxon National Exhibition. He has been included in several other biennials, including Documenta IX in 1992 and a second Whitney Biennial in 2000. In 1999 the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston launched a 20-year retrospective of Nicosia’s work, Nic Nicosia: Real Pictures 1979–1999. A second major survey of his work was mounted at CASA in Salamanca, Spain, in 2003.
Museums that have acquired Nicosia’s work include the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Dallas Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Nicosia received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant in 1984, an award from the Awards in the Visual Arts (AVA) 11 in 1991, and the Tesuque Foundation Artist Fellowship Grant in 1998. He has a degree from the University of North Texas in Radio-TV-Film with a concentration in Motion Pictures.
The University of Texas Press is producing a major career retrospective book, Nic Nicosia, to be released this month. The book includes more than 160 images and film stills from 1980 through 2011.
A Dallas native, Nicosia currently lives and works in Santa Fe.
Jeremy Thomas
Lecture and Q&A with the artist
Tuesday, Oct. 16, 11:30 a.m.
Tipton Hall on the SFUAD campus
1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe, N.M.
Courtesy of Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas is an artist/blacksmith who was introduced to the process of blacksmithing and forging steel during his time at the College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design), where he interned with blacksmith Tom Joyce. Thomas also studied with Robert R. Zakanitch and DeLoss McGraw at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute and under painter/printmaker Jean Richardson when he was in high school.
After graduating with a BFA in Studio Art in 2000, Thomas returned to Oklahoma to work as a master printmaker. In the late 1990s he returned to Santa Fe and began working as an artist/blacksmith.
Today, Thomas is represented by Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe; Bentley Gallery in Scottsdale, Ariz.; and Galerie Renate Bender in Munich, Germany. His sculptures are included in public collections such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y.; the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Ariz.; and in the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Los Angeles.
Harmony Hammond
“What’s a Nice Feminist Like You Doing in the Modernist Painting Field?”
Lecture and Q&A with the artist
Thursday, Nov. 1, 6 p.m.
Tipton Hall on the SFUAD campus
1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe, N.M.
“Red Bed,” courtesy of Harmony Hammond
A pioneer of the feminist art movement, Harmony Hammond is an internationally recognized artist, art writer and independent curator who lives and works in Galisteo, N.M. She lectures, writes and publishes extensively on painting, feminist art, lesbian art and the cultural representation of “difference.”
Hammond co-founded A.I.R. in Manhattan, the first women’s cooperative art gallery in New York (1972) and published Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (1976). For 17 years, she was an art professor who taught painting, combined media and interdisciplinary graduate critique seminars at the University of Arizona (Tuscon).
Hammond’s work has been shown in more than 40 solo exhibitions in New York venues such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the National Academy Museum & School, the Whitney Museum of American Art and White Columns, as well as a multitude of other national and international venues. Most recently, her work was exhibited at the New Mexico Museum of Art as part of its series of Alcove exhibitions. Her work has also been reproduced and discussed in a variety of respected newspapers and magazines, including Art in America, The Art Journal, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and New York Magazine.
She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Andrea Frank Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as Art Matters, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hammond earned a BA from the University of Minnesota in 1967. She currently mentors MFA students at Vermont College, and she has been a visiting artist in programs at the Skowhegan School of Art, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, California College of the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. She is curating Material Engagements, an exhibition for Denver’s RedLine art space, which will open Oct. 27, 2012.
More information:
For more information, contact Susan York at susan.york@santafeuniversity.edu or call 1-505-473-6500.
About SFUAD’s Art Department
The Art Department at Santa Fe University of Art and Design offers coursework in both materials-based studio art (painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics) and contemporary practice, such as installation, projected image, performance and video. Coursework in art history enriches and contextualizes this study. Faculty members are acclaimed artists with active careers, as well as mentors who support each student in finding his or her artistic voice. Students may earn a BA or BFA degree and can individualize and expand their program with electives from within the department or from other disciplines. They have the opportunity to exhibit in several campus galleries and to pursue internships within Santa Fe’s internationally renowned arts community as they prepare for successful careers as working artists and in arts-related fields. The Art Department is housed in the Visual Arts Center, a striking complex of buildings designed by award-winning architect Ricardo Legorreta.
About Santa Fe University of Art and Design
Santa Fe University of Art and Design is an accredited institution located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, one of the world’s leading centers for art and design. The university offers degrees in arts management, contemporary music, creative writing, digital arts, graphic design, moving image arts (filmmaking and video production), performing arts, photography and studio art. Faculty members are practicing artists who teach students in small groups, following a unique interdisciplinary curriculum that combines hands-on experience with core theory and prepares graduates to become well-rounded, creative, problem-solving professionals. As a Laureate International Universities Center of Excellence in Art, Architecture and Design, the university boasts an international student body and opportunities to study abroad, encouraging students to develop a global perspective on the arts. Santa Fe University of Art and Design (formerly the College of Santa Fe) is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association, www.ncahlc.org.