Each year, the art department invites a nationally recognized artist to
spend a semester at UNC to exhibit and instruct as a member of the
faculty. Examples of past participants include:
Bill Fick
The artist in residence for the fall semester of 2005
is Bill Fick, a Master Relief Printing Artist who combines humor and
queasiness in his extraordinary linoleum cut works. Hoodlums and
pock-marked characters, both animal and human populate his satirical
critique of contemporary American culture. Get a taste of his
work at his website:
cockeyedpress.com.
Endi Poskovic
The artist in residence for the spring semester
of 2004 is Endi Poskovic, a Bosnian born artist who is currently an
Associate Professor of Art at Whittier College in Los Angeles,
California. Poskovic has directed the Printmedia Program at Whittier
since 1997. His prints have been showcased extensively in over 200
individual and group exhibitions in worldwide venues. Poskovic has
described his powerful, large-size, multi-block woodcut prints as
‘enigmatically political,’ referencing themes that are ‘both
magnificent and apocalyptic.’ He also works with drawings and digital
photography in the process of producing his prints. For more extensive
exploration of Poskovic’s work, see his web site at
http://web.whittier.edu/art/poskovic.html
Vito Acconci
Born in 1940. He received a B.A. from Holy Cross College and an M.F.A.
from the University of Iowa. In 1987, a major retrospective of his
work, entitled Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings, originated at La Jolla
Museum of Contemporary Art in California and travelled to sites
throughout the United States. Acconci has been a vital presence in
contemporary art since the late 1960s; his confrontational and
ultimately political works have evolved from writing through conceptual
art, bodyworks, performance, film, video, multimedia installation and
architectural sculpture.
Website:
www.eai.org
Judy Chicago
An artist, author, feminist, educator and intellectual whose work and
philosophy have had a worldwide impact on both the art community and
the larger culture. Since the early 1980's, in response to an absence
of traditional support, her art-making and vision have been supported
by Through the Flower, a non-profit organization dedicated to the
exhibition and preservation of her participatory projects
For over three decades Ms. Chicago has remained steadfast in her
commitment to the power of art as a vehicle for intellectual
transformation and social change. She is known and respected as an
artist and humanist whose work and life are a model for an enlarged
definition of art and an expanded role for the artist.
Website:
www.chelseaforum.com
Artists and critics who have spent a semester at UNC include:
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