Curator of Carnegie Museum of Art to Give Public Lecture
November 16, 2007
Douglas Fogle, curator of contemporary art at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, will give a free public lecture, “Modest Proposal,” at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 28, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art. He will discuss his curatorial practice over the past decade, touching on the question of painting’s status, photography’s alternative history and the upcoming Carnegie International. Fogle’s lecture is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series.
As curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Fogle is responsible for organizing the 2008 Carnegie International. He previously spent 11 years as a curator in the Visual Arts Department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. During his tenure at the Walker, he initiated a series of exhibitions with emerging artists, solo exhibitions with Catherine Opie and Julie Mehretu, as well as a number of group exhibitions such as Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s (1997), Painting at the Edge of the World (2001), and The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982. His exhibition Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths, and Disasters 1962-1964 opened at the Walker Art Center in November 2005 and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Fogle received his bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1986. He began his doctoral studies in the history of consciousness with an emphasis on contemporary visual culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1987 and advanced to candidacy in 1991. He was a lecturer in the Art History Board at the museum from 1992–1994. Fogle has also written for several exhibition catalogues and journals such as Artforum, frieze, Flash Art, and Parkett.
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Douglas Fogle
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