Brooklyn based artists Marie Lorenz and Byron Kim will speak at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis in April. The lectures will be April 10 and April 24, respectively, and begin at 4:30 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
Lorenz is a multimedia artist who uses printmaking, sculpture and filmmaking in her work, which is rooted in the exploration and narrative of New York City’s waterfronts. Combining psycho-geographic exploration with highly crafted, material forms, Lorenz uses boats to create an uncertain space and bring about a heightened awareness of place. In 2005, she started her Tide and Current Taxi project, taking people around the New York Harbor in a boat built from salvaged materials, using the tide to guide her navigation.
Kim creates paintings that double as portraits and landscape paintings. He is also the co-director of Yale Norfolk School of Art.
Kim's well-known Synecdoche series (1991–present) is a group portrait composed of hundreds of 10- by 8-inch panels, each painted to match the skin tone of a sitter. His numerous awards include the Louise Nevelson Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, the Alpert Award in the Arts, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize and the Skowhegan Medal for Painting.
The talks are organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program, and co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.
The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies is an academic program in the Department of Art and Art History at UC Davis. Visiting artists engage with students at the undergraduate and graduate levels through seminars, critiques and public lectures in residencies that are focused on teaching. Each academic year, the program supports two visiting professors in quarter-long residencies and three “spotlight” artists in week-long residencies.
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