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Kim Abeles - interdisciplinary artist, urban environment and social issues

12/1/2009
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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.

This Tuesday Talk Colloquium will feature Kim Abeles. Abeles is an artist who crosses disciplines and media to explore and map the urban environment and chronicle broad social issues. The Smog Collector series brought her work to national and international attention. She has also been featured in Newsweek, National Public Radio, and CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Abeles' mid-career survey, Encyclopedia Persona A-Z, toured the United States and South America, and was awarded the Best Regional Museum Show category for 1993-94 by the International Association of Art Critics.

She continues to exhibit internationally, including recent projects in Vietnam, Thailand, Czech Republic, England, China, and forthcoming in Cuba. She represented the U.S. in both the Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam and the Cultural Centre of Berchem in Antwerp.

Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, United States Information Agency, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is archived in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt Publication Design Collection of the Smithsonian.

This lecture was funded by the Brittingham Fund.

IMAGE:
Abeles, The 36 streets of Hanoi (detail)
Gouache paintings on paper of street maps in Hanoi, with objects related to their names
10'x8'x6'

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