Saturday, October 22, 2011
Make plans to join us for the 20th Annual Berlind Symposium, held in conjunction with the 100th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art: The Vision Endures. The Vision Endures features work by important contemporary American artists: David Bates, Jake Berthot, Lee Bontecou, Richard Estes, Sam Gilliam, Alexis Rockman, Betye Saar, Kiki Smith, Joan Snyder, Donald Sultan, John Walker, and William T. Wiley.
10:30 a.m.: Gallery talk and presentation by featured artist Joan Snyder
2 p.m.: Panel discussion moderated by Virginia Mecklenburg, with reception to follow
Panelist Colin Lang is assistant professor of contemporary art in the Department of Art History in the School of the Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2010 and taught previously at Mount Holyoke College and Princeton University. His writing has appeared in Artforum and Texte zur Kunst, and he is currently at work on a book-length study of Room 19, a studio shared by students of Joseph Beuys at the Dusseldorf State Art Academy from 1966 to 1969.
Moderator Virginia Mecklenburg is a senior curator of painting and sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Her research interests include American art and culture, Ashcan art, New Deal art, American abstraction, pop art and Latino art. Mecklenburg has organized more than 25 exhibitions, the most recent of which was Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (2010). She has written on George Bellows, Richard Estes, William Glackens, Edward Hopper, Robert Indiana, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Sloan, Robert Vickrey, and other 20th-century painters for exhibition-based publications as well as for magazines and journals such as American Art, American Art Review, and The Magazine Antiques.
Joan Snyder’s introduction into the New York art world began with a series of “stroke” paintings completed in the 1970s. These works were included in the Whitney 1973 Biennial and the Corcoran 1975 Biennial and were the basis of her first solo shows in New York City and San Francisco. Although Snyder’s paintings are often placed under various art-movement umbrellas—Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Expressionism, and Feminist Art—the changing nature of her work, with its combination of personal iconography, female imagery, aggressive brushstroke, and accomplished formalism, has kept her steadily untagged. Joan Snyder was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1974 and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1983. In 2007, Snyder received a MacArthur Fellowship.
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