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Jan Estep - Multimedia Artist

10/27/2009
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Room 204 Educational Sciences Building
1025 W. Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
5:40 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Parking is available at Grainger Hall

All events are free and open to the public.

As a part of the Tuesday Talks Colloquium Series, Jan Estep will speak of her creative practice that comprises critical writing, creative writing, and a range of visual media including sculpture, video, drawing, embroidery, and independent publishing. Trained as both a philosopher and an artist, the relationship between thought and visual expression fuels her wide range of formal and conceptual investigations.

Estep’s research interests include contemporary visual art, early conceptual art, and the relationship between art and language. Her recent artwork focuses on the use of text within visual contexts to sustain dialogue and conceptual ideas.

She has exhibited her artwork at Art in General, Dumbo Artist Space, and New York Arts Gallery, New York; Donald Young Gallery and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago; Franklin Art Works, Soap Factory, and Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, among others. Since 1998, she has published over 70 critical pieces in art magazines such as Afterall, Modern Painters, Frieze, and New Art Examiner, and in exhibition catalogues by Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Hayward Gallery, London; and Akira Ikeda Gallery, Japan. From 1997-2002, she was an editor of New Art Examiner, serving as senior editor from 2000-2002. Her artist publications can be found at Printed Matter, Inc. Estep received the McKnight Fellowship for Visual Artists, 2006-2007; the Jerome Artist Residency at Art in General, 2005; and a Jerome Research and Travel Grant, 2004.

Originally from West Virginia, and for many years based in Chicago, Estep moved to Minneapolis in 2002 where she is an associate professor of art at the University of Minnesota.

Funding is provided by the Anonymous Fund.

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