Sculptor to Give Public Lecture
March 27, 2008
Installation artist Judy Pfaff will give a free public lecture at 3:00 p.m. on Monday, April 7, in the HUB Auditorium on the University Park campus. The Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and the HUB-Robeson Galleries co-sponsor Pfaff’s lecture.
A native of London, Pfaff received her B.F.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, and M.F.A. from Yale University. She was named a Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Fellow in 2006 and MacArthur Fellow in 2004. Pfaff's installations, sculptures, drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. She has been described as a "collagist in space." Her dynamic, large-scale (and typically site-specific) installations incorporate local materials and combine painting, sculpture, and architecture. These works include carefully crafted elements of her own making with found materials, both man-made and natural, to create protean forms of rich complexity. She works with a wide range of materials and has inspired younger artists to venture outside the traditional distinctions made between painting and sculpture.
Pfaff is a professor of art and co-chair in the art department, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and artist-in-residence at Hui Noieau Visual Arts Center, Maui, Hawaii. For more information, visit http://www.judypfaff.org.
Contact: Ann Shostrom, ashostrom@psu.edu