 Lectures,
designed for an adult audience, complement the Lowe’s temporary
exhibitions and permanent collections of Greco-Roman Antiquities,
Renaissance and Baroque, Asian, African, Ancient and Native American
and Contemporary art. In addition, the Lowe specifically targets
college and university students in the Miami area with the goal
of making leaders in the field accessible to students. Lectures
have been presented by guest curators, scholars and artists from
the local, state, national and international community.
Occasionally the Lowe presents Symposia, which feature several
guests over one or more days for an in-depth look at a topic from
various points of view. By bringing world-class artists and
researchers to Miami, the Lowe impacts the cultural arts in our
community by providing a forum for dialogue, which addresses current
research and issues in the field of art, art history and cultural
studies.
For a complete listing, visit the Calendar
of Events.
For more information call the Lowe at: 305-284-3535
Gregory Heisler on Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman: Photographic Legacy
Introduction by David Newman
Opening lecture
June 26, 2009 7pm
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Gregory Heisler, who onced served as Arnold Newman’s assistant, is a New York-based photographer who is renowned for his technical mastery and thoughtful responsiveness. His enthusiasm, curiosity, and drive are manifested in his hands-on approach of the image making process. His iconic portraits and innovative essays have often graced the covers and pages of many magazines, including Life, Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, GEO, Sports Ilustrated, ESPN, and The New York Times Magazine, yet he is perhaps best known for his more than seventy TIME cover portraits. He has also photographed advertising Campaigns for such clients as American Express, Benson & Hedges, Dewar’s, Merril Lynch, Nike and Zocor. Private portrait commissions are another important focus of Gregory’s work. The first photographic portrait for New York’s City hall was his lithographic proitn of Mayor Edward I. Koch. The New York Public Library Followed suit, commissioning a portrait of Marshall Rose which is presently exhibited in the library’s main branch at forty- second street and fifth ave. Most recently, New York mayor Michael R. Bloomberg commissioned a portrait by Gregory which now hangs in the atrium of the johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health in Baltimore, Maryland. As a sought-after speaker and educator, Gregory has taught at the International Center of Photography, the New School for Social Research, The School of Visual Arts (Master of Fine Arts Program), Parsons School of Design, The Smithsonian Institution (Masters of Still Photography Series), and the National Geographic Society, as well as scores of workshops and seminars throughout the country and overseas. Among the kudos he has received are the Alfred Eisenstadt award, and The Leica Medal of Excellence. Gregory has been profiled in American Photo, Communication Arts, Esquire, Life and numerous industry periodicals.
UM Faculty Exhibition- Carsten Meier: Naturell
April 17, 2009
Meier’s work focuses on our perception of Nature and How the act of seeing a photograph establishes a transitory thread between the viewer and the environment depicted.
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Carsten Meier is originally from Germany. He joined the UM faculty of the Department of Art and Art History In August 2008 where he teaches Digital, Color, Advanced and intermediate Photography Classes. Before joining UM, Meier received his MFA in Photography from Ohio University, Athens Ohio where he was also an instructor for three years. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund, Germany where he also received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Carsten has also worked as a staff photographer and multimedia developer for the College of Osteopathic Medicine, as a freelance photographer for Audi, a gallery assistant for Trisolini and Siegfred Galleries and as a freelance window designer. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2001-2002 and has published a book called Public Parking of his series of photographs of the empty parking lots of recently closed or just-built shopping centers showing ordinary beautiful spaces that we usually ignore and our extraordinary mobility.
Carsten Meier
Habitat No. 1
2008
40”x87”
Therman Statom
United States, B. 1953
Seattle Ladder #2, 1992
Constructed glass, paint and applied fragments, 84 x 19 ½ x 5”
Promised gift of Myrna and Sheldon Palley, IL2008.13.39
Therman Statom
April 7, 2009
Lecture by glass artist Therman Statom; featured in the Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts.
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Therman Statom was Born 1953 Winter Park, Florida. Therman Statom's primary medium is sheet glass. He cuts, paints and assembles the glass, adding found objects along the way, to create compelling sculptures. His artistic vocabulary includes simple but powerfully charged forms: houses, ladders, chairs.
Statom began his study of glass as an art medium at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, California in 1971. He was awarded the BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in 1974 and the MFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in 1978. His twenty-five year professional career includes exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Cleveland Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Oakland Museum. He has exhibited internationally at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Sweden; Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, France, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art in Japan and Centro Cultural de la Raza in Ensenada, Mexico.
Statom's public commissions can be seen in California at Los Angeles Central Public Library and the Los Angeles International Airport and at the Ice Center in San Jose, California. His work is included in numerous collections, among them the Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Toledo Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, California; High Museum of Art, Atlanta and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
March 27, 2009
Las Artes de Mexico From the Collection of the Gilcrease Museum
Children of the Plumed Serpent: A Thousand Years of Art and Ritual in Southern Mexico
Dr. John Pohl
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The Aztec Sun Stone
41 ½ diameter x ¾”
The image of a Plumed Serpent is pervasive throughout the ancient arts of North and Central America. This New World dragon is the rain-bringer that rises from its watery home in lakes and rivers to traverse the skies through thunderstorms and inspire awe among the indigenous people petition it. In Mesoamerica, no legend has surpassed that of the human incarnation of the Plumed Serpent, or Quetzalcoatl as the culture hero was known in southern Mexico. Dr. Pohl will address the nature of myth versus history framed by legends of the Plumed Serpent together the heroic saga of Quetzalcoatl, whose legendary genius, artistic skill, and essentially humane character served as the basis for countless foundation epics throughout Mesoamerica. The legacy of the man-god endures as a source of controversy, from his enigmatic role in a fifteenth century Aztec cult to a post-colonial skepticism of his very existence, yet the Plumed Serpent continues to inspire artists, writers, scholars, political activists, and indigenous peoples of Mexico today.
About the Lecturer:
Dr. Pohl at UM School of Business Storer Auditorium
Dr. John Pohl is Curator of the Arts of the Americas at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. He is an authority on American Indian civilizations and has directed numerous archaeological excavations and surveys in Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Central America. His area of specialization is the ancient art and writing of the Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec civilizations of highland Mexico. Dr. Pohl is noted for bringing the ancient past to life using a wide variety of innovative skills and techniques. His unusual background in archaeology, art history, and media production have taken him from museum exhibition development with the Walt Disney Company’s Department of Cultural Affairs to the Princeton University Art Museum where he served as the first Peter Jay Sharp Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas. He has conceived several major exhibitions on North and Central American Indian peoples including the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina, the new museum for the Moundville Archaeological Park, Moundville, Alabama. Most recently he curated and designed the acclaimed Sorcerers of the Fifth Heaven: Art and Ritual in Ancient Southern Mexico at Princeton University and La Tinta Grita; the Art of Social resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico at UCLA. Dr. Pohl is the author of numerous books and articles including Exploring Mesoamerica and The Legend of Lord Eight Deer both with Oxford University Press.
Thursday October 2, 2008
7:00 pm
Dr. Catharine H. Roehrig, Curator, Department of Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Hatshepsut’s temple in western Thebes. Photo by Isabel Stuenkel, 2004.
“Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh”
Hatshepsut was not the only woman to rule Egypt in ancient times, but her twenty year reign was by far the longest and most significant. Hatshepsut was the daughter of a king (Thutmose I) and became the principal Queen of her half-brother (Thutmose II). On the death of her husband, she became Queen regent for her step-son/nephew, Thutmose III. Not long after this, she adopted the titles of a king and reigned jointly with Thutmose as principal ruler of Egypt, the most powerful nation state of the time. Hatshepsut’s reign was a prosperous and creative period, producing some of the most innovative architecture and art from Egypt’s long history.
About The Lecturer:
Catharine H. Roehrig is a curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley where she received her PhD in Egyptian Archaeology. Dr. Roehrig specializes in the art and history of the New Kingdom and has a particular interest in the monuments of the Theban necropolis (opposite modern Luxor), where she has conducted most of her fieldwork.
Friday Nov. 21, 2008
7:00 pm
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Charles Biederman: From Cezanne to Cigars
Lyndel King, Director and Chief Curator, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, will talk about Charles Biederman as an artist, his background and training, as well as his artistic muses and his theories of art. In addition, Ms. King will talk about Charles as a person consumed by art and by paranoia, based on her personal experiences of having known him for more than 20 years and many conversations with him in his yellow, red, and white constructivist painted farmhouse, in the woods, at the end of a dead-end dirt road, near Red Wing, Minnesota.
About the Lecturer:
Lyndel King has a Ph.D. in art history and more than 25 years of museum experience. She has been director and chief curator at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota since 1981. King was instrumental in securing funding to build a new art museum building and was involved in selecting Frank O. Gehry as architect and working with him on design development and construction of the facility which opened in 1993. Prior to her work at the University, she worked as director of exhibitions and museum programs for Control Data Corporation and as an exhibition coordinator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C. King is a graduate of the Museum Management Institute. She has received several awards from the American Association of Architects Minnesota chapter for her contribution to design through her work at the Weisman. In her next life she will devote herself to raising Beagles, cooking, traveling, and studying Byzantine art.
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