UA Museum of Art

Originally from Chicago, Carrie Seid maintains a full time fine and public art practice out of her studio in Tucson, Arizona. Her works are made primarily of metal, wood, and silk, and incorporate illumination and pattern investigation to conjure various states of being. She has exhibited widely across the United States and internationally. Seid received her B.F.A. from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1984, then went on to receive her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she was a Merit Scholar. She has taught at numerous universities in the U.S., including the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Winner of the Purchase Award in 2003, her work is part of the permanent collection of The Tucson Museum of Art. In February 2006, her work was featured on“Arizona Illustrated,” hosted by Sooyeon Lee of KUAT television. Her public commissions in the Tucson area include the reception area of the Udall Senior Center, five distinct projects at the Northwest Medical Center in Oro Valley, and an in-ground glass sculpture in the courtyard of the Flowing Wells Community Center in Tucson. Seid is currently working on a terrazzo floor design for the Phoenix Arts Commission.

Alfred Quiroz's contemporary narrative paintings have been exhibited internationally and have been reviewed in Art In America, Art Week, LA Times, Artforum, Visions, San Francisco Examiner, The Chronicle, and in an essay and profile by Pamela Portwood in Artspace. His work won the "Best of Show Award" at the AZ Biennial in 1986. Quiroz received the ,000 Arizona Arts Award in 1988. He has also received two Visual Arts Grants from the AZ Commission on the Arts (1989 and 1995). In 1992 he received a New Forms Regional Grant from Diverseworks in Houston. His work is in several private collections, and in the Tucson Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Artist Audrey Flack gave a lecture at Center for Creative Photography, followed by a reception, book signing and meet the artist event at The University of Arizona Museum of Art. The event was held in conjuction with the UA Musem of Art's exhibition of Flack's work, "Audrey Flack's Marilyn: Still Life, Vanitas, Trompe l'Oeil." Audrey Flack holds a graduate degree and an honorary doctorate from Cooper Union in New York City, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. She attended New York University's Institute of Fine Arts where she studied the history of art. She was awarded the St. Gaudens Medal from Cooper Union, and the honorary Albert Dome professorship from Bridgeport University. She is an honorary professor at George Washington University, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Audrey Flack has taught and lectured extensively both nationally, and internationally.

Exhibit curator Joanne Stuhr led visitors on a gallery walk through the exhibit. Stuhr also provided a brief overview of life in the Americas before contact with Europeans and discuss aesthetic and cultural significance of selected pieces in the exhibition. Dec. 4, 2008.

The University of Arizona Museum of Art presents "Jenny Schmid: The Vistas of Gender Utopia," an exhibition marking this exciting emerging printmaker’s first comprehensive solo museum presentation and monograph publication. Schmid will offer a lecture on her work on Sept. 18 at 4 p.m. and a book signing and opening reception will follow from 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Schmid’s “Gender Utopia” project explores notions of gender and liberty through images that fuse Old Master print precedents with a hip contemporary sensibility. Critical yet humorous, Schmid’s work is luxuriantly colored, exquisitely wrought, and iconographically rich. Her prints quote from Europe’s Medieval and Renaissance print precedents, the medium’s traditions of social satire and arch political caricature (including Breugel, Hogarth, Goya and Daumier), contemporary journalism and sociology, feminist scholarship, graphic novels and various strains of popular culture – visual, musical and literary. Densely packed with symbols and language, the work traces the distant past to the immediate present with a wry humor that carries the sharp poke of contemporary critique. Sept. 18, 2008.

"The Altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo" is the centerpiece of the UAMA’s Samuel H. Kress Collection, which consists of more than 60 European paintings, sculptures and decorative objects dating from the 14th through the 19th centuries. In addition to the Altarpiece, the Kress holdings include paintings by Vittore Carpaccio, Jusepe de Ribera, Domenico Tintoretto, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Horace Vernet, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and many others. The technical analysis of the paintings, under the direction of Claire Barry, chief conservator for the Kimbell Art Museum, allowed scholars to look beneath the painted layers and to see the artists’ preparatory underdrawings. Sept. 2008.

Barbara Anderson of the Getty Research Institute gave a lecture titled "In the Shadow of a Famous Master: Maestro Bartolomé’s Innovations in the Altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo" September 4, 2008. Following two years of groundbreaking research and technical analysis, the University of Arizona Museum of Art’s magnificent altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo has returned to Tucson. Since the fall of 2006, this exquisite group of 26 Spanish medieval paintings has undergone ultraviolet light and X-ray examination, as well as infrared reflectography at the Kimbell Art Museum’s Conservation Studio in Fort Worth, Texas. The resulting scientific and art historical research have unlocked 500-year-old secrets about the altarpiece’s creation and realization.

The University of Arizona Museum of Art welcomedAndrew Schulz, art history professor from the University of Oregon. Schulz, author of "Goya's Caprichos, Aesthetics, Perception and the Body," gave a lecture on Goya's Los Caprichos in conjunction with "Goya's Mastery in Prints: Los Caprichos," an exhibition currently on view at UAMA. By examining Goya’s Los Caprichos within the context of the artist's career and the intellectual climate of late 18th-century Spain, this lecture will consider how the artist’s contemporaries would have understood the print series and explore how we might understand it today. April 3, 2008.

UA art history professor Mikelle Omari-Tunkara will speak about contemporary African art and the world of El Anatsui, whose work is on display at the UA Museum of Art through Jan. 20. Omari-Tunkara’s public talk will be held at the UA Museum of Art. Nov. 14, 2007

The University of Arizona Museum of Art presented the sculpture of El Anatsui, one of Africa’s foremost living artists, and one who has had enormous impact on a subsequent generation. “El Anatsui: GAWU,” on view at the UA Museum of Art from Nov. 1, 2007 to Jan. 20, 2008, features seven large-scale sculptures by the artist. El Anatsui was recently named by the British publication The Independent as one of the 50 greatest cultural figures shaping the African continent. “El Anatsui: GAWU” is an Oriel Mostyn Gallery touring exhibition and was generously supported by the Arts Council of Wales. Additional funding was provided by Wales Arts International. El “Anatsui: GAWU,” the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States, visits the UA Museum of Art after presentations at The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and The Fowler Museum at UCLA. The exhibition’s final presentation will take place at the Smithsonian’s National Museum for African Art in Washington, DC.

UA Museum of Art Assistant Curator Susannah Maurer takes a close look at the prints in Goya’s "Los Disparates." This lecture focuses on how the prints in this suite relate to the 14 oil paintings known as the "Black Paintings." Both the paintings and the prints share a dark, mysterious imagery that Goya scholar Frank Milne has described as “hermetic self-contained fantasies.” This lecture was being presented in conjunction with "Goya’s Mastery in Prints," a four-exhibition cycle of extraordinary etching suites by the Spanish master Francisco de Goya on loan from the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. September 6, 2007

William R. Wilson's work has focused on photographing Navajo People and their relationship to the land. While portraying this relationship he has always been aware of how this representation has never been without consequence.

Polk discusses his work, "Bodily Fluids." Professor Polk joined the UA Faculty in 1984 and teaches courses primarily in printmaking and drawing.

Joseph Labate has experience working with and teaching most photographic mediums and currently works primarily with digital technology. His research investigates the impact of technology on the medium of photography.

Pia Francesca Cuneo is Associate Professor of Art History and teaches Italian and Northern Renaissance. Her lecture covered the Dürer's family background, his early artistic training and the social fabric of life in his native Germany at the time. She chronicled Dürer’s travels to Italy, where hisartistic pursuit of beauty and harmony through the study of nature and perspective mirrored theItalian Renaissance artists of the time, such as Leonardo da VInci, Michelangelo and the Venetian master, Titian. Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Joanna Frueh is an art critic and art historian, a writer, an actress, a singer, and a multidisciplinary and performance artist. Her most recent book is Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure (2006). There her trailblazing consciousness continues the exploration of love, eros, sex, and human relations that appear in her previous books, Monster/Beauty: Building the Body of Love (2001) and Erotic Faculties (1996). Clairvoyance (For Those In The Desert): Performance Pieces 1979–2004, a collection of her essential performance texts, will be published by Duke University Press in December 2007. Frueh’s performance texts and her writings on contemporary art and women artists have appeared in numerous books and journals. Recognized as a powerful, provocative, and articulate performer, she has presented her one-woman shows—as well as lectures—at museums, galleries, universities, and conferences in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the UK. She is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Mixed-media performance with video; artifacts remain as installation. Gallery talk at the UA Museum of Art, September 27, 2007

Alfred Quiroz's contemporary narrative paintings have been exhibited internationally and have been reviewed in Art In America, Art Week, LA Times, Artforum, Visions, San Francisco Examiner, The Chronicle, and in an essay and profile by Pamela Portwood in Artspace. His work won the "Best of Show Award" at the AZ Biennial in 1986. Quiroz received the ,000 Arizona Arts Award in 1988. He has also received two Visual Arts Grants from the AZ Commission on the Arts (1989 and 1995). In 1992 he received a New Forms Regional Grant from Diverseworks in Houston. His work is in several private collections, and in the Tucson Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

David Christiana has illustrated more than twenty picture books for children and authored four for international publishers such as Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Harcourt Brace; Little, Brown; Henry Holt; and Scholastic. Reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, People Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, etc. Works have also been published in Children's Book Illustration and Design: Volume II (PBC International, 1998) OMNI magazine, PRINT magazine, and HOW magazine, The Society of Illustration Annuals, Communication Arts, and American Illustration, Applied Arts, and Spectrum 11. Recent exhibitions include Human Topographies (a one-person exhibition at Reality Room in Washington DC, 1998); Children's Book Illustration Today (Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, 1997); Original Art (Society of Illustrators, New York, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997); The Figure and Its Parts (Northern Arizona University Art Museum, 1996); Dream Weavers (an international invitational traveling exhibition, 1995); Children's Book Illustrators of Arizona (Tohono Chul Gallery, Tucson, 1995). Invited by Steven Spielburg to illustrate a chapter of The Emperor's New Clothes as retold by Jeff Goldblum for the Starbright Foundation (Harcourt Brace, 1998).

Originally from Chicago, Carrie Seid maintains a full time fine and public art practice out of her studio in Tucson, Arizona. Her works are made primarily of metal, wood, and silk, and incorporate illumination and pattern investigation to conjure various states of being. She has exhibited widely across the United States and internationally. Seid received her B.F.A. from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1984, then went on to receive her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she was a Merit Scholar. She has taught at numerous universities in the U.S., including the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Winner of the Purchase Award in 2003, her work is part of the permanent collection of The Tucson Museum of Art. In February 2006, her work was featured on“Arizona Illustrated,” hosted by Sooyeon Lee of KUAT television. Her public commissions in the Tucson area include the reception area of the Udall Senior Center, five distinct projects at the Northwest Medical Center in Oro Valley, and an in-ground glass sculpture in the courtyard of the Flowing Wells Community Center in Tucson. Seid is currently working on a terrazzo floor design for the Phoenix Arts Commission.