Visiting Artist: Wangechi Mutu October 28, 2009

Wangechi Mutu (Painting): October 27-29, 2009

Lecture: Wednesday, October 28, 5 – 7 pm, ART 1.102
(Note: This lecture has been rescheduled from Tuesday to Wednesday)

Seminar: Wednesday, October 28, 3 – 4 pm, Location TBA

Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born artist based in New York, makes luscious yet unsettling pictures of female figures. Her painted and collaged works on Mylar function as potent social critique while simultaneously exploring more poetic strains of mythology and allegory as well as the sensuousness of form, color, and pattern. Particularly interested in myths about gender and ethnicity that have long circulated in Africa and the West, Mutu has adopted the medium of collage - which by its nature evokes rupture and collision - to depict the monstrous, the exotic, and the feminine.

Mutu's work has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Miami Art Museum, Tate Modern in London, the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions including Greater New York at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Black President at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Barbican in London, and USA Today at The Royal Academy in London.

Official Website: http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/studio_art/special_programs/visiting_artists_series/index.cfm