Artist Allan McCollum to Speak in Anderson Lecture Series
March 16, 2006
Artist Allan McCollum, visiting associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give a public lecture at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 21, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art. His lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and is free to the public.
McCollum, a native Californian who now lives and works in New York, has spent over 30 years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on collaborations with small community historical society museums in different parts of the world. His first solo exhibition was in 1971, and his first New York showing was in an exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1972. In the 1970s, he became especially well known for his series, Surrogate Paintings.
McCollum has had numerous solo and group exhibitions, including showings at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2004); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1999 and 1996); the Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France (1998); Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (1996); and the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1995-96). He has produced public art projects in the United States and Europe, and his works are held in nearly 70 major art museum collections worldwide.
A number of interesting writers have published texts on Allan McCollum's work, including Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Hal Foster, Anne Rorimer, Lynne Cooke, Lars Nittve, Thomas Lawson, Catherine Quéloz, Helen Molesworth, Johannes Meinhardt, Claude Gintz, Suzi Gablik, Nicolas Bourriaud and Rhea Anastas. For more information, go to: http://home.att.net/~allanmcnyc.
Contact: Sarah Schwartz, ses32@psu.edu