March 13, 2006, 6:30pm
SculptureCenter Lectures at the New School, Part 1
Subjective Histories of Sculpture: Paul Pfeiffer
$5 General Admission. SculptureCenter Members and students free. For tickets call 212.229.5488 or write to boxoffice@newschool.edu.
As part of exploring how contemporary artists think about sculpture -- its history, conventions, and legacies -- SculptureCenter, in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, presents a series of artist-led lectures. Mid-career artists discuss specific works, bodies of work, texts, or even personal anecdotes -- taken from inside and outside sculpture, and inside and outside "art" -- to outline their version of sculpture's history. These subjective, incomplete, partial, misremembered, or otherwise eclectic stories together examine sculpture's evolving strategies, behaviors, dreams, and mistakes over the course of human civilization.
Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966, and spent most of his childhood in the Phillippines. Pfeiffer's work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. In 2003, a traveling retrospective of his work was organized by the MIT Visual Arts Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. In 2000, Pfeiffer was the inaugural recipient of The Buxbaum Award given to one artist in the Whitney Biennial. Pfeiffer is currently co-curating SculptureCenter's spring 2006 group exhibition Grey Flags. Pfeiffer lives and works in New York.
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