Artist Lecture and Reception
Date(s): April 19, 2010
Time(s): 5:30 PM
Martha Rosler, whose work is included in Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists, will speak. For more information on the exhibition, please click Shrew'd: The Smart & Sassy Survey of American Women Artists
To view a selection of artworks in the exhibition, please click: Shrew'd Slideshow
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York. She took her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1965 and her M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego in 1974.
Rosler works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, and writes criticism. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally. Her work in the public sphere ranges from everyday life — often with an eye to women's experience — and the media to architecture and the built environment.
She has published several books of photographs, texts, and commentary on public space, ranging from airports and roads to housing and homelessness. Her work has been seen in the "Documenta" exhibition in Kassel, Germany; several Whitney biennials; the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Dia Center for the Arts in New York; and many other international venues.
A retrospective of her work has been shown in five European cities and in New York at the New Museum and the International Center of Photography (2000). An accompanying book has been published by MIT Press. Her writing has been published widely in catalogs and magazines, such as Artforum, Afterimage, and NU Magazine.
Rosler has ten published books. She has produced numerous other "Word Works" and photo/text publications — now exploring cookery in a mock dialogue between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne, now analyzing imagery of women in Russia or exploring responses to repression, crisis, and war.
Two other artists with works in the exhibition will give lectures in Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The dates and times of these visits are:
The exhibition and talks are free. The public is invited.
Location: Sheldon
