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31/1/2005

Barbara Kruger

San Francisco Art Institute - SFAI, San Francisco

Lecture

Since 1980, Barbara Kruger's powerful juxtapositions of images and words have profoundly influenced how we see power, identity, and sexuality.

The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is pleased to name Barbara Kruger as the 2005 McBean Distinguished Lecturer. Kruger will present her lecture on Tuesday, February 1, 7:30 pm in the Art Institute's Lecture Hall.

"We are pleased to present Barbara Kruger with this award, designed to acknowledge the contributions of an important contemporary artist," says critic, poet, and SFAI faculty Bill Berkson. "Kruger has been identified as an epochal image-and-text artist in the forefront of late-20th-century 'postmodern' criticality, and she distinguished herself early on as one of the most brilliant, exacting, and inventive cultural realists of our time. Her work has proven less exhaustible, more compelling and mysterious over the years„the energy, both aesthetic and contextual, seems boundless."

Past recipients of the McBean Distinguished Lectureship and Residency include Robert Rauschenberg, Adrian Piper, John Baldessari, and Rachel Whiteread.

Kruger is best known for her provocative black and white photographic images, which are banded with red stripes of text bearing bold messages. These signature images, produced in the 1980s, consistently raise questions about values, taste, and the material world. A graphic designer at Mademoiselle and House and Garden in her early days, Kruger has been commissioned to design covers for numerous other magazines, from Esquire and Newsweek to The New York Times Book Review. She has also created posters on subjects ranging from reproductive rights to a short film by Jonathan Demme and the backdrop for the Rage Against the Machine 1997 tour. Recently she has made life-size, white, fiberglass statues.

Major museum retrospectives of her work have been held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work is represented in many museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; St. Louis Art Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945, Kruger studied at Syracuse University and Parsons School of Design. She has worked in a number of fields, including photography, teaching, critical writing, curating, public art projects, and book publishing. Her work has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan in galleries, newspapers, magazines, and museums, as well as on billboards, matchbooks, TV programs, t-shirts, postcards, and shopping bags. Her major commissions include the park and outdoor amphitheater at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC; a train station in Strasbourg, France; and floor mosaics for the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University in Columbus. She has written about television, film, and culture for Artforum, Esquire, The New York Times, and The Village Voice.

The San Francisco Art Institute and the McBean Family Fund launched the McBean Distinguished Lectureship and Residency in 2000.

Image: Barbara Kruger, Twelve, 2004, installation. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York.

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