Fine Arts Speaker Series: Lani Maestro and Julian Montague

[Tara L Cooper]

Dear All,

In conjunction with our Visiting Artists' Speaker Series, The Department of Fine Arts invites you to our next lectures:

Lani Maestro
Friday November 4th
10:30 am, East Campus Hall, Room 1219

and

Julian Montague
Wednesday November 9th
1:00 pm, East Campus Hall, Room 1219


Lani Maestro was born in Manila, Philippines where she studied Editorial Design and acquired a BFA from the University of the Philippines. In 1983, she came to Canada to study at the Banff Centre. This residency marked for her a proposition for a radical vision of art as she worked with artists like Krystof Wodizco, Allan Kaprow, Robert Irwin, Toru Tekemitsu and John Cage. A short Canadian sojourn became an extended stay. Maestro continues to live and work in Canada and elsewhere.  



Recent exhibitions include: Bisa/Potent Presences, Metropolitan Museum of the Philippines, Manila (2011); Complete and Unabridged, Singapore ICA, Singapore (2011), Mixed Bathing Worlds, The Beppu Project, Beppu, Japan (2009); the 9th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2009). Last year, the realization of two new projects were mounted for exhibitions in Canada with “l’oubli de l’air” at the Darling Foundry in Montreal and “her rain” at the Centre A International Centre for Contemporary Art In Vancouver.

Julian Montague blurs the lines between research, graphic design and fiction. His recent project, Secondary Occupants/Collected & Observed, investigates the symbiotic relationship between homeowners and the unseen occupants that inhabit their households; namely birds, insects and rodents.

Montague has exhibited widely in the United States at Art in General, New York; Black & White Gallery, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach; and Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City. His work has received media attention from Art in America, The Journal of Postmodern Culture, New York Magazine, The New York Times, and BBC World Service, and is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Martin Z. Margulies and The Progressive Insurance Company.
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