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Presented at the Hammer Museum's
Billy Wilder Theater
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
(at the corner of Westwood and Wilshire)
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Admission is free
Parking is available in the museum's underground parking lot for $3 after 6:30 pm |
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread was awarded the Tate Gallery’s Turner Prize in 1993 and the Venice Biennale Award for Best Young Artist in 1997. Her work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. She has received several commissions including the Water Tower Project for the Public Art Fund, New York (1998); the Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna (2000); and Embankment for the Unilever Series, Tate Modern, London (2005). Whiteread currently lives and works in London. In November, her work will be on view at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Rachel Whiteread
Photo: Johnnie Shand Kydd
Rachel Whiteread, Water Tower,
1998, Cast resin, 12'2" x 9'.
Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.
Photo: Marian Harder
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman’s paintings are in the collections of many prominent museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum, traveling from the Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston Art Museum, Houston, and to the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. Her work is included in Prospect I, the New Orleans Biennial, and she was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Other exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, University of North Texas, Denton TX, and the Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL. This fall, Amy Sillman’s work will be on view at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. She lives and works in New York.
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Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman, Cliff I, 2005,
Oil on canvas, 72" x 60".
Courtesy of the artist and Susanne
Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
Photo: Gene Ogami |
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Past Lectures 2007-08
This lecture series was made possible through the generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed Art Lecture Fund and is hosted by the Hammer Museum.
For more information please contact:
UCLA Department of Art
Broad Art Center, Suite 2275
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1615
(310) 825-0557
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