CORE Connect Lectures are done through a remote conference
(Skype) platform, with the visiting artists streaming from their own
studio. CORE students have the opportunity to get a peek into the
artist's studio and ask questions about the artist's practice and
studio processes. Starting Fall 2014 lectures will be related to the semester's theme.
CORE CONNECT LECTURE FALL 2015
Crystal Wagner transforms paper into sculptural works that combine a radiant colour palette with textures and forms that evoke foliage, flowers and vines. Her practice incorporates site-specific installations that ambitiously dominate the space, almost architectural in scale, with the manipulated paper forms transformed into pieces which seem to overflow with life and energy. The artist also creates smaller framed works that are contained within bespoke frames which address ideas of man’s manipulation of nature and the endless regeneration of life. This multi-disciplinary artist creates sculptural forms using the by-product of trees themselves. This ubiquitous and familiar material mutates into a mythological, Triffid-like form that writhes and distorts within the frame, attempting to break free of its boundaries. Wagner’s work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S and abroad and has been placed in collections around the world. Her most recent commissions include a large-scale installation for the internationally recognized band The Flaming Lips. a large shadow box for GNU a snowboard company out of Portland, OR, a large-scale installation piece for NIKE, presented in the Shrine Auditorium for The KOBE X Blackout Experience, and most recently two installations for Viacom, one of which is a 117 ft piece at their headquarters in Times Square and a large piece for the National Museum of Singapore.
Crystal Wagner transforms paper into sculptural works that combine a radiant colour palette with textures and forms that evoke foliage, flowers and vines. Her practice incorporates site-specific installations that ambitiously dominate the space, almost architectural in scale, with the manipulated paper forms transformed into pieces which seem to overflow with life and energy. The artist also creates smaller framed works that are contained within bespoke frames which address ideas of man’s manipulation of nature and the endless regeneration of life. This multi-disciplinary artist creates sculptural forms using the by-product of trees themselves. This ubiquitous and familiar material mutates into a mythological, Triffid-like form that writhes and distorts within the frame, attempting to break free of its boundaries. Wagner’s work has been exhibited extensively in the U.S and abroad and has been placed in collections around the world. Her most recent commissions include a large-scale installation for the internationally recognized band The Flaming Lips. a large shadow box for GNU a snowboard company out of Portland, OR, a large-scale installation piece for NIKE, presented in the Shrine Auditorium for The KOBE X Blackout Experience, and most recently two installations for Viacom, one of which is a 117 ft piece at their headquarters in Times Square and a large piece for the National Museum of Singapore.
CORE CONNECT LECTURE FALL 2015
Isabelle Papaloïzos is an artist, curator, and educator living in Geneva, Switzerland. Her interest is in addressing the issues of organization of knowledge, rank and hierarchy. This leads us to rethink a series of relationships, including those between man and animals and other living entities commonly called "environment" or "resources". These reflections are combined with issues specific to art history, especially its relationship with the decorative arts - that presuppose a hierarchy of taste, value and use. So it concerns systems of representation and their political and imaginary power. After studying art history and American studies and English literature, Isabelle Papaloïzos worked as a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Images (Saint-Gervais, Geneva); she published critical texts and conducts cultural projects with Utopiana and CH9. She teaches visual arts at CFPAA (Centre for applied and visual arts).
Isabelle Papaloïzos is an artist, curator, and educator living in Geneva, Switzerland. Her interest is in addressing the issues of organization of knowledge, rank and hierarchy. This leads us to rethink a series of relationships, including those between man and animals and other living entities commonly called "environment" or "resources". These reflections are combined with issues specific to art history, especially its relationship with the decorative arts - that presuppose a hierarchy of taste, value and use. So it concerns systems of representation and their political and imaginary power. After studying art history and American studies and English literature, Isabelle Papaloïzos worked as a curator at the Centre for Contemporary Images (Saint-Gervais, Geneva); she published critical texts and conducts cultural projects with Utopiana and CH9. She teaches visual arts at CFPAA (Centre for applied and visual arts).
CORE CONNECT LECTURE SPRING 2015
Bradley Wester’s work has evolved into a hybrid-practice that combines painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and photographic digital imaging into larger works/installations with particular and unique reference to color, light and space. His current work, DISCOurse, examines a ‘Queer’ utopian impulse via the Disco Ball’s fracturing and reordering of the ‘Straight’ reflection. Solo & group shows in the U.S. & Europe: Solo’s most recently at Yellow Peril Gallery in Providence and Margalef & Gipponi in Antwerp. An upcoming solo at Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York is scheduled for 2015. Awards: Specialist Fulbright to Kyoto Japan, 2 MacDowell Fellowships, Pollock-Krasner Grant. . His Visiting Artist credits include: CalArts Los Angeles, Dartmouth College New Hampshire, Sint Lucas Antwerp, Kyoto University of Art & Design, The American Academy in Rome, and a recent 3-year Visiting Artist faculty position at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota FL.
Bradley Wester’s work has evolved into a hybrid-practice that combines painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and photographic digital imaging into larger works/installations with particular and unique reference to color, light and space. His current work, DISCOurse, examines a ‘Queer’ utopian impulse via the Disco Ball’s fracturing and reordering of the ‘Straight’ reflection. Solo & group shows in the U.S. & Europe: Solo’s most recently at Yellow Peril Gallery in Providence and Margalef & Gipponi in Antwerp. An upcoming solo at Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York is scheduled for 2015. Awards: Specialist Fulbright to Kyoto Japan, 2 MacDowell Fellowships, Pollock-Krasner Grant. . His Visiting Artist credits include: CalArts Los Angeles, Dartmouth College New Hampshire, Sint Lucas Antwerp, Kyoto University of Art & Design, The American Academy in Rome, and a recent 3-year Visiting Artist faculty position at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota FL.
Structurally Sound (detail), thread on stained canvas
CORE CONNECT LECTURE FALL 2014
Nava Lubelski was born and raised in New York City and is living currently in Asheville, NC. Lubelski's work has been included in several exhibitions at the Museum of Arts & Design in Manhattan and has been shown recently at the San Diego Museum of Art with upcoming venues including The National Museum of Arts and Design in Oslo, Norway. She has had solo shows with LMAKprojects in New York, OH&T Gallery in Boston, Luis de Jesus in Los Angeles and P|M Gallery in Toronto. Lubelski's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Forum, ArtNews and The Village Voice, among other publications. She has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Lubelski received a degree in Russian Literature & History from Wesleyan University and spent a year as a student in Moscow, Russia.
Nava Lubelski was born and raised in New York City and is living currently in Asheville, NC. Lubelski's work has been included in several exhibitions at the Museum of Arts & Design in Manhattan and has been shown recently at the San Diego Museum of Art with upcoming venues including The National Museum of Arts and Design in Oslo, Norway. She has had solo shows with LMAKprojects in New York, OH&T Gallery in Boston, Luis de Jesus in Los Angeles and P|M Gallery in Toronto. Lubelski's work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Forum, ArtNews and The Village Voice, among other publications. She has received grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. Lubelski received a degree in Russian Literature & History from Wesleyan University and spent a year as a student in Moscow, Russia.
Saya Woolfalk: The Empethetics
CORE CONNECT LECTURE SPRING 2014
Saya Woolfalk is a New York based artist whose work spans multiple media from sculpture, installation, and painting to performance and video. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University, and she recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; and Momenta Art in Williamsburg, NY. She received an Art Matters grant to Japan and a NYFA grant (2007), a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil (2005), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant (2004), and was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and Sculpture Space
Saya Woolfalk is a New York based artist whose work spans multiple media from sculpture, installation, and painting to performance and video. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University, and she recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; and Momenta Art in Williamsburg, NY. She received an Art Matters grant to Japan and a NYFA grant (2007), a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil (2005), and a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant (2004), and was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and Sculpture Space
CORE CONNECT LECTURE FALL 2013
Rob Carter received his BFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Worcester College, Oxford University, UK (1998), and he later received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College, New York, NY (2003). He has shown extensively internationally, with solo exhibitions at Galerie Stefan Röpke in Cologne, Germany (2012), Station Independent Projects in New York, NY (2012), Art In General in New York, NY (2012), Ebersmoore, in Chicago, IL (2011/2009), and Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, in Rome, Italy (2008). He has also exhibited at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, in Hiroshima, Japan (2013), The Field Museum, in Chicago, IL (2012), Institute of Contemporary Art, in Philadelphia, PA (2010), and Museum of Arts and Design, in New York, NY (2009). Carter was awarded a Workspace residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) (2011-12) and the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship (2010).
Rob Carter received his BFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Worcester College, Oxford University, UK (1998), and he later received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College, New York, NY (2003). He has shown extensively internationally, with solo exhibitions at Galerie Stefan Röpke in Cologne, Germany (2012), Station Independent Projects in New York, NY (2012), Art In General in New York, NY (2012), Ebersmoore, in Chicago, IL (2011/2009), and Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, in Rome, Italy (2008). He has also exhibited at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, in Hiroshima, Japan (2013), The Field Museum, in Chicago, IL (2012), Institute of Contemporary Art, in Philadelphia, PA (2010), and Museum of Arts and Design, in New York, NY (2009). Carter was awarded a Workspace residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) (2011-12) and the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship (2010).
