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John Divola - Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS)
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John Divola (born 1949) is an American contemporary visual artist and educator, living in Riverside, California. He works in photography, describing himself as exploring the landscape by looking for the edge between the abstract and the specific. He is a professor in the art department at the University of California Riverside.
Divola's books include Continuity, Isolated Houses, Dogs Chasing My Car In The Desert, and Three Acts. His work was included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1978, 1989, and 2000, as well as the 1981 and 2017 Whitney Biennials. In 1986, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Tue, Jan 28, 2025
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
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11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Animal Charm - Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS)
The undergraduate and graduate Fine Art departments will host Animal Charm (Richard Bott and Jim Fetterly) for a special artist lecture and Q&A on Tuesday, Jan 28, 11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m. in the Forum.
Animal Charm, a collaboration between Richard Bott (b.1972 Louisville, Kentucky) and Jim Fetterley (b. 1971 Rockford, Illinois) - began using found VHS tapes to make video collages in 1995. With the advent of YouTube a decade away, the artists culled bins of dead and devalued media, including industrial and promotional videos, bargain vinyl LPs, and consumer-grade electronics. They then combined disparate footage, using early nonlinear video-editing software, to create unsettling and humorous works. The duo composes unexpected juxtapositions to subvert the original intentions of the found videos and expose their absurdity while eliciting new meanings from the detritus of vulture.
Image courtesy of PBS: https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbound/animal-charms-underground-film-and-sculpture