Brooklyn Sculptor Diana Al-Hadid Gives a Lecture
October 7, 2009
Brooklyn-based contemporary artist and sculptor Diana Al-Hadid will give a free public lecture at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art, on the Penn State University Park campus. The Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series sponsors Al-Hadid’s lecture.
According to Al-Hadid, constructing large architectural sculptures from media such as polystyrene, plaster, fiberglass, wood and wax demonstrates her view of the inevitable crumbling of ambitious human constructions including the Tower of Babel, Chartres Cathedral, Crete Labyrinth and the Hadron Collider. A native of Syria, Al-Hadid received a B.F.A. in sculpture from Kent State University and a M.F.A. in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond), and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Reverse Corridor, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York; The Fourth Room, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; The Gradual Approach of My Disintegration, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York; and The Immodest Mountain, Arlington Art Center, Washington, D.C. Group exhibitions include: In the In Between, Istanbul, Turkey; Next Wave Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music; and Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East, Saatchi Gallery, London. Al-Hadid has received several awards, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Sculpture and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and her work is included in art collections at the Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York; the C-Collection, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; and the Saatchi Collection, London. For more information, visit http://www.al-hadid.wsdia.com/.
Contact: Contact: Ann Shostrom, ams26@psu.edu