Dorothy Cross
dal 21/1/2003 al 22/1/2003
Segnalato da
21/1/2003
Dorothy Cross
SFAI Lecture Hall, San Francisco
A lecture by Dorothy Cross. Installation Artist. One of the most prominent artists at work in Ireland today, Dorothy Cross investigates the mythic concerns with life and death that unite us all. Cross also explores uncanny and spectral modes of experience by presenting objects and states that are on the cusp between the natural and the unnatural, the monstrous and the beautiful.
A LECTURE BY DOROTHY CROSS
Installation Artist
January 22, 2003
7:30 pm
One of the most prominent artists at work in Ireland today, Dorothy Cross investigates the mythic concerns with life and death that unite us all.
Cross also explores uncanny and spectral modes of experience by presenting objects and states that are on the cusp between the natural and the unnatural, the monstrous and the beautiful.
She was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1956, and lives in Dublin.
She studied at the Crawford Municipal School of Art in Cork and Leicester Polytechnic in England and received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1982. Cross' solo exhibitions include Come into the Garden Maud, Fourth Wall, commissioned by the Public Art Trust, London, IN 2001; Even, Frith Street Gallery, London; and Cry, Artpace, San Antonio. In 1996 she was included in the two-person show, The Addition and Subtraction of Skin, at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Admission: $6 general; $4 members, alumni, seniors, students, and disabled; SFAI students free. No advance tickets are available for SFAI lecture hall events.
Image:
Dorothy Cross, 'Jellyfish Lake' 2002, mini dv transferred to dvd, 6 mins, looped, edition of 4
Event Contact:
Greg Sandoval
(415)749-4563
gsandoval@sfai.edu
SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA