Buzz Spector lecture at the Contemporary Art Museum
Wednesday October 19
Doors open at 6:30 and lecture begins at 7:00
Buzz Spector is an artist and critical writer whose artwork has been shown in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Spector’s work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception. He has issued a number of artists’ books and editions since the mid-1970s, including, most recently, Time Square, a limited edition letterpress book hand altered by the artist and published in 2007 by Pyracantha Press and ABBA at Arizona State University in Tempe. Among his previous publications are Between the Sheets, a limited edition book of images and text published in 2004 by The Ink Shop Printmaking Center in Ithaca, NY, Details: closed to open, an artists’ book of photographic details from images in the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, (List Art Gallery, Swarthmore College, 2001) and Beautiful Scenes: selections from the Cranbrook Archives (Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1998). He is also the Dean of the College and
Graduate School of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at
Washington University in St. Louis.
This event is free and open to the public.
Presented by Saint Louis University Department of Fine and Performing Arts, Art History in conjunction with the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
3750 Washington Blvd.
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