Lecture
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Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist: Adrian Armstrong
Date:
Starts at
5:30 pm
Sheldon Museum of Art
Room: Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium
Target Audiences:
451 N 12th St
Lincoln NE 68588
Lincoln NE 68588
Additional Info: SHEL
Contact:
School of Art, Art History & Design, (402) 472-5522, schoolaahd@unl.edu
Adrian Armstrong will present a Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 5:30 p.m. at Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.
Armstrong’s (B.F.A. 2014) multidisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, sound, and other mixed-media elements and documents the contemporary Black experiences in the United States. He is deeply interested in questions of how Black experiences intersect with the history of photography, portraiture, and collage.
Using friends, family members, and acquaintances as subjects, Armstrong’s single and multi-figural works probe the influence of place and popular culture on the formation of self-image, community, connection, tenderness, and love. More specifically, he is interested in the complex ways race informs how we assign value to and interact in the spaces we occupy.
He earned a semi-finalist position in the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Triennial Portrait competition. Ten of his pieces were featured in ArtBasel Miami’s Chateau CIROC. This exhibition/event is an experiential platform to celebrate and empower Black Excellence. The team at CIROC unveiled it during to not only give a platform to artists and their ongoing work but to provide them a home where diverse voices are seen, heard, felt, and most importantly, celebrated. Several of his pieces were featured in “House of Crowns,” a collaborative exhibition between Phillips Auction House and Super Position Gallery New York. He was featured in a solo exhibition titled “There Are Black People in Nebraska?” at Big Medium in Austin, Texas.
Armstrong received the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts’ Alumni Achievement Award in Art last spring.
View his work at http://adrianarmstrongart.com.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.
Armstrong’s (B.F.A. 2014) multidisciplinary practice encompasses drawing, painting, printmaking, installation, sound, and other mixed-media elements and documents the contemporary Black experiences in the United States. He is deeply interested in questions of how Black experiences intersect with the history of photography, portraiture, and collage.
Using friends, family members, and acquaintances as subjects, Armstrong’s single and multi-figural works probe the influence of place and popular culture on the formation of self-image, community, connection, tenderness, and love. More specifically, he is interested in the complex ways race informs how we assign value to and interact in the spaces we occupy.
He earned a semi-finalist position in the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Triennial Portrait competition. Ten of his pieces were featured in ArtBasel Miami’s Chateau CIROC. This exhibition/event is an experiential platform to celebrate and empower Black Excellence. The team at CIROC unveiled it during to not only give a platform to artists and their ongoing work but to provide them a home where diverse voices are seen, heard, felt, and most importantly, celebrated. Several of his pieces were featured in “House of Crowns,” a collaborative exhibition between Phillips Auction House and Super Position Gallery New York. He was featured in a solo exhibition titled “There Are Black People in Nebraska?” at Big Medium in Austin, Texas.
Armstrong received the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts’ Alumni Achievement Award in Art last spring.
View his work at http://adrianarmstrongart.com.
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