ASPECTS of SCULPTURE:
Three Lectures
by Phyllida Barlow
Tuesdays, 7:00
pm, Visual Art Building, AS 1.105, free
October
21
BIG, BAD, UGLY:
A slide illustrated talk on the sculpture
of Phyllida Barlow
October
28
THE SNEEZE OF LOUISE:
A slide illustrated talk on the sculpture
of Louise Bourgeois.
November
4
HEARSAY, RUMORS, BEDSIT DREAMERS
AND ART BEGINS TODAY:
A slide illustrated talk on the influence
of American and European sculpture on British
Sculpture in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Sponsored by McDermott
Visiting Artist & the UTD/SouthSide
Artist Residency Programs
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London trained sculptress
presents and exhibition of large, three-dimensional
installations which will be built directly
into UTD's main gallery.
Phyllida Barlow was born
in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1944. She trained
at Chelsea College of Art and the Slade
School of Fine Art, London. Her work consists
predominantly of large, three-dimensional
installations in which the use of space
- and our relationship to it - plays an
important role. As if watching a play unfold
on stage, the viewer witnesses the work
and its carefully constructed plot. Barlow
is currently Head of Undergraduate Sculpture
at the Slade School of Fine Art. Recent
exhibitions include EAST International,
Norwich (1997), Out of Place, Chapter, Cardiff
(1998), Not, Nothing, Nowhere, Deptford,
London (1998), O Pas Là, Lieu d'Art
Contemporain, Narbonne, France (1999), Furniture,
Richard Salmon, London (1999), and Dumbfounded,
Battersea Arts Centre, London (1999). Phyllida
Barlow lives and works in London.
Artist’s
Statement
" I use low-tech
and ostensibly mundane materials, and
my installations insist upon the dynamics
of the location of the work in relationship
to the viewer. Recently, I have applied
this to more discrete, free standing and
wall-based sculptures, which condense
the disparity and diversity of the installations.
Much of the new work has developed from
drawings of objects and structures and
the way they occupy space. My sculptures
and installations aspire to engage with
and revitalize our experience and knowledge
of things, not through description, but
through the interplay of a strong emphasis
on common, often unrefined materials and
edited, abbreviated references, which
invite associations but resist definition.
The thickly painted surfaces are essential
to the work's physicality and its artifice,
demanding that it be experienced in the
here and now.
I have been making sculpture
since the 1960s. I have witnessed extraordinary
changes in this most complex of art forms
which I have contende and been influenced
by. I have taught in art schools consistently
and am currently Head of Undergraduate
sculpture at the Slade School of Fine
Art, UCL. Teaching reciprocates my activities
as an artist as does my family (I have
five children, now grown-up!). Sculpture
for me has been ephemeral and temporary,
and dominating my experience has been
an experimental approach to making and
exhibiting where I have prioritized an
interventionist approach of the here and
now. "
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