ATP welcomes visiting writer and critic Jesicca Lynne.
Lynne is a founding editor of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal of art criticism from Black perspectives. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The Believer, Frieze, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and Oxford American, where she is a contributing editor. She is the recipient of a 2020 Research and Development award from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, a 2020 Arts Writer Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation, and she is the inaugural recipient of the Beverley Art Writers Travel Grant awarded in 2022 by the American Australian Association. She holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
Jessica is currently an associate editor at Momus and host of the limited series podcast, Harlem is Everywhere.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, November 7, 3:15pmat KRESGE 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
VISITING CURATOR TALK: RACHEL ADAMS
ATP welcomes curator Rachel Adams for a public talk.
Adams has been the Chief Curator and Director of Programs at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art since 2018. Past curatorial appointments include Senior Curator at UB Art Galleries, Curator-in-Residence at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center (now Oregon Contemporary) and Associate Curator at Arthouse at the Jones Center (now The Contemporary Austin). Adams holds an MA in Exhibition and Museum Studies from SFAI and a BFA from SAIC. Her areas of interest are varied but focus on creating meaningful connections for artists. Projects tend to include the crossover between contemporary art and architecture, as well as sound, performance, video and new media practices. Select exhibitions include Jennifer Ling Datchuk: Eat Bitterness, Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers (co-curated, catalogue), Presence in the Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence, Maya Dunietz: Root of Two, All Together, Amongst Many: Reflections on Empathy, Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Drop Scene, Claudia Wieser: Generations (co-curated), Alison O’Daniel: Heavy Air, Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, The Language of Objects, Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 and Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective (co-curated). She is responsible for curating the Mellon Foundation supported sound venue LOW END at Bemis Center. Past performers include Fujita, Ana Paula Santana, Tarta Relena, Salami Rose Joe Louis, Maya Dunietz, Ya Tseen, Kiku Hibino, Eli Keszler, jaimie branch, Laura Ortman, Dereck Higgins, Matmos, ADULT., Xiu Xiu, Elisa Harkins, Elder Ones, Moor Mother, Lea Bertucci + Amirtha Kidambi, SCRAAATCH, and Pamela Z. Forthcoming projects include exhibitions with Carmen Winant, Miatta Kawinzi and the group exhibition From the Great Lakes to the Great Plains: The Visible Current of Climate Change.
She has worked with artists including Ekene Ijeoma, Amie Siegel, Maya Dunietz, Ragnar Kjartansson, Lydia Okumura, Stephanie Syjuco, Claudia Wieser Kambui Olujimi, Jordan Weber, Brendan Fernandes, Seher Shah, John Grade, Claire Ashley, Julia Rose Sutherland, Seitu Ken Jones, and Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz. Her writing has been included in exhibition catalogues Raven Halfmoon: Flags of Our Mothers; Maya Dunietz: Root of Two; Claudia Wieser: Generations; Jillian Mayer: TIMESHARE, Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, Out of Easy Reach, Prospect.3 New Orleans, and Texas Prize 2012 as well as Afterimage, artforum.com, Art Papers, Art Practical, Modern Painters, and Texas Architect. She is an alumna of the 2016 ICI Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans and the 2016 Artis Curatorial Research Trip to Israel. She has lectured at the University at Buffalo, MOCAD, The Rose Art Museum, Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art, PNCA, FIT, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the Stephens Institute, Texas State University, The University of Texas at Austin, the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Tuesday, October 15, 5:00pmat KRESGE HALL 2435
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Danielle Dean
ATP is pleased to welcome Danielle Dean as part of the 23-24 visiting artist series.
Danielle Dean is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the geopolitical and material processes that colonize the mind and body. Drawing from the aesthetics and history of advertising, and from her multinational background—born to a Nigerian father and an English mother in Alabama, and brought up in a suburb of London—her work explores the ideological function of technology, architecture, marketing, and media as tools of subjection, oppression, and resistance. Dean received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
She worked on a commission for a solo show at The Tate Britain, London (2022); Amazon and Performa 21, New York, (2021); Amazon Proxy and Other solo shows include Bazar, ICA San Diego (2023), Long Low Line, Midnight moment, Times Square Arts, New York, NY (2023), Trigger Torque at The Ludwig, Germany (2019), True Red Ruin at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2018), Bazar at 47 Canal in New York (2018), Landed at Cubitt gallery in London (2018) and Focus: Danielle Dean at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016).
She was included in The Whitney Biennale in New York (2022) Her work has also been included in group exhibitions This Land, The Contemporary Austin (2023), Milk, Welcome Collection, London, UK (2023), Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Anti, Athens Biennale in Athens Greece, The Centre Cannot Hold, Lafayette Anticipation, Paris, Artist’s film international, The Whitechapel Gallery, (London), From Concrete to liquid to spoken worlds to the word, Centre D’Art Contemporain Geneve (Geneva, Switzerland), In Practice: Material Deviance at Sculpture Center (New York), Experimental People at High Line Art (New York), Lagos Live at the Goethe Institut Nigeria (Lagos), and Made in L.A. 2014 at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) among many others.
Dean's work is in the permeant collections of The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, Arts Council collection, London, UK, Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco and Paris, US/FR, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA among others.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, April 17, 12:00pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
1880 CAMPUS DR
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Iman Raad
ATP is delighted to welcome Iman Raad as part of the 23-24 Visiting Artist Series. **Please note this talk begins at 5:00 PM.
Raad is a Brooklyn-based visual artist, designer, and educator. Across his diverse work, Raad brings together a sweeping reimagining of traditional Persian art amidst the interruption of images and narratives in the internet era. Oscillating between disparate areas of knowledge, Raad references a culture indexically rooted within his thoughts. Curiosity is given a place to breathe. Images are fractured or incomplete. Moments from different art histories are filtered into a language of comfort and contented longing; a repetition of imagery and color whose intention is to keep you in a disturbed reality.
Through this prism of layers and colors, Raad has found a necessary platform to touch on both the complexities and beauty of cross cultural expression today. Aside from visual art, Raad is also an internationally acknowledged graphic designer–representing the contemporary Persian design and typography movement.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Monday, April 1, 5:00pmat FORUM ROOM
KRESGE HALL 1515
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Steffani Jemison
ATP is pleased to warmly welcome Steffani Jemison as part of our Visiting Artist series. **Please note the artist talk begins at 4:30 PM.
Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. In dialogue with interlocutors (living and ancestral), her work connects mark-making, gesture, proposal, projection, movement, and document.
“How and when might weight be shared between one body and another? Can a body be a figure and a ground? An end and a means? Simultaneously agent and support?”
Jemison has presented solo exhibitions and commissioned performances at JOAN Los Angeles, Greene Naftali, Mass MoCA, Jeu de Paume, CAPC Bordeaux, the Museum of Modern Art, LAXART, and other venues. Her work has been included in significant generational exhibitions, including Greater New York (2021) and the Whitney Biennial (2019), and is part of many public collections, including the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her novella A Rock, A River, A Street was published by Primary Information in 2022; she has also written for Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail.
Jemison’s collaborative projects include at Louis Place (a writing community co-founded with Quincy Flowers and led with Naima Lowe), Mikrokosmos (a platform for listening and performance with Justin Hicks), Future Plan and Program (a publishing project), and Alpha’s Bet Is Not Over Yet (with Jamal Cyrus). She learns with and from her students at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she is an Associate Professor.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Thursday, February 15, 4:30pmat FORUM ROOM
KREGE 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
Visiting Artist Talk: Patricia Fernández
ATP is pleased to welcome Patricia Fernández as part of the visiting artist series. PLEASE NOTE: This talk begins at 4:30 PM*
Fernández (born in Burgos, Spain) lives and works between Joshua Tree and Los Angeles. She received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from University of California, Los Angeles.
Select solo exhibitions have been held at Commonwealth and Council, Mexico City and Los Angeles, Whistle, Seoul, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Museo de Arte Burgos, and LAXART. She is a recipient of Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists. Fernández has participated in residencies at Yucca Valley Material Lab, Forest Island, (Mammoth Lakes), Récollets, (Paris), Headlands Center for the Arts, (Marin), and Fondazione Antonio Ratti, (Como). Her work is in the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
DATES & LOCATIONS,
Wednesday, March 6, 4:30pmat KRESGE 1515
1880 CAMPUS DRIVE
EVANSTON, IL 60208
