Artist Lecture

Miki Baird alternates between meticulously designed photographic assemblages of thousands of images and enormous accumulations of shredded junk mail, collected from the mailbox of one address. Both of her endeavors engage everyday phenomena by weaving together the designs and repetitions inherent in the quotidian. Kindred Virtuosities is an exhibition of diverse artworks by three artists ...

Garry Noland forges links between pattern, process, and transformation. His large-scale duct-tape collages engage the vocabulary of vintage domesticity—peeling layers of aged wallpaper or linoleum flooring or the controlled randomness of a crazy quilt. This embrace of the abject and found object continues in his series of Failed Monuments, where large nuggets of reclaimed dock ...

Susan White is engaged primarily with pyrography and “thorn works”—three-dimensional assemblages made from the thorns of the honey locust tree. Her pyrographs, large drawings on thick rag paper, are made with the use of a burning tool with which White creates drifting galaxies of many small marks that become poetic evocations of constellations of cells ...

After the Golden Age is an installation of allegorical ceramic still lifes inspired by both vanitas motifs and luxury objects from the 16th and 17th centuries. Russell's tableaus explore the notions of artifice and material value, a study that is enhanced by the artist's keen attention to verisimilitude. Birds of prey hunt among objets de ...

Christopher Russell will lead a gallery talk at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 19, in the Scott Gallery, at Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Following the talk, there will be a reception and Mr. Russell will be available to sign the exhibition catalog, available at the museum desk.  

Join us in an artist-led gallery talk with Debra M Smith on Thursday, November 3, at 6 p.m. as part of The Thread You Follow: Debra M Smith & Donna Sharrett. Free and open to the public.