Thursday, July 13, 2006

Jack Risley (and a slew of others)


Jack Risley visited the MFA program in Ceramics, Painting & Sculpture on Wednesday, July 12, discussing his work and performing exclamatory titles. The talented Mr. Risley played his cards close to his vest throughout the talk, often eschewing interpretation for deadpan description, only occasionally dropping tidbits of information that were not illustrated on the screen before us. Others must talk, and for their thoughts about Risley's forms (coincidently framed in a discourse of hybridity), you can look at this piece Nancy Princenthal banged out for Art in America

With some many artists' lectures in two days (Robert Goodman and Gerry Nichols spoke to painters, Dick Torchia to seminar students, Matt Courtney talked to Ceramic Sculptors...I figure that's about five hours of lectures between 9am Tuesday and 11am Thursday) there's a lot to chew on. Who will comment first?

1 comment:

Cecilia said...

This is awesome!