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Campus Sculpture Walk with Charles Ray and Lauren Lessing, UI Stanley Museum of Art
Apr 16, 2019
03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
Visual Arts Building
107 River Street, Iowa City, IA 52246
Explore the UI campus's wealth of public sculpture with College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellow Charles Ray (BA '75, Art) and Lauren Lessing, Director of the UI Stanley Museum of Art. The walk will begin in front of the Visual Art Building and end at Gibson Square Park adjacent to the UI Main Library.
Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times wrote that Ray's "career as an artist…is easily among the most important of the last twenty years."
A 1975 graduate of the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, Charles Ray has had solo museum exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago (2015), Kunstmuseum Basel (2014), Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (2006), and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1998). His work has been included in Documenta IX (1992), three iterations of the Venice Biennial (1993, 2003, 2013), and five installments of the Whitney Biennial (1989, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2010).
Other events associated with Charles Ray's Alumni Fellow residency:
- Objects, Sculptures, Locations: Lunchtime Lecture Series
- Objects in Relation to the Arts: a Lunchtime Lecture by Graham Harman, Professor of Philosophy, Southern California Institute of Architecture
- Sculptures Made by Ghosts: a Lunchtime lecture by Charles Ray
- Sculpture and Space in Greece: Then and Now a Lunchtime Lecture by Richard Neer, Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
- My Soul is an Object: Artist Talk with Charles Ray
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