Penn State School of Visual Arts announced their Fall 2021 program for the John M. Anderson Endowed Lecture Series, presented via Zoom and free and open to the public. Pre-registration via the links below is required for each lecture.
Nekisha Durrett
Durrett currently lives and works in Washington, DC where she creates bold and playful large format installations and public art that aim to make the ordinary enchanting and awe-inspiring, while conjuring up subjects that are often underrepresented or overlooked in visual culture. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in New York City and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design as a Horace H. Rackham Fellow. Durrett has exhibited her work across the Washington, DC area and nationally.
Recent installations include Up ’til Now, a free-standing, solar-powered sculpture reminiscent of the history of the landscape and architecture of Washington, DC, located in the Golden Triangle neighborhood; “Messages for the City” in collaboration with For Freedoms in Times Square, New York; a wall-mounted public sculpture in the Liberty City community of Miami, Florida, created in collaboration with concept artist Hank Willis Thomas; and a permanent installation in the glass vestibule of the newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Library in Washington DC. Durrett’s “Magnolia,” a series of sheets perforated by the artist with the names of women murdered by law enforcement agencies, was shown at the 2021 Atlanta Biennale at the Atlanta Contemporary. Durrett is represented by Caitlin Berry Fine Art of Washington, DC and is currently being produced on a large format permanent sculpture in Arlington, Virginia.
Guadalupe miracle
In 1984, at the age of 8, Maravilla emigrated alone from El Salvador to the United States to escape the Salvadoran civil war. Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied undocumented children who came to the US from Central America and became an autobiography with 27 US citizens. Through her multidisciplinary studio practice, Maravilla traces the history of her displacement and questions the parallels between pre-Columbian cultures and border politics.
Maravilla has her work in places like the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, ICA Miami, Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, MARTE (El Salvador), Central America Biennial X (Costa Rica), Smack Mellon and Performa 11 & 13. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the ICA Miami, among others.
Jacob Hashimoto, “Space. Object. Image.”
With sculpture, painting and installation, Jacob Hashimoto creates complex worlds from a series of modular components, including bamboo and paper kites, model boats and even blocks covered with AstroTurf. His accretive, layered compositions refer to video games, virtual environments, and cosmology, but also remain deeply rooted in art-historical traditions, particularly landscape-based abstraction, modernity, and craft.
Hashimoto was born in Greeley, Colorado in 1973 and is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives and works in Ossining, New York. Hashimoto has been shown in solo exhibitions at the MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, MACROMuseum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Schauwerk Sindlefingen in Germany, Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art in Finland, SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico and the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas. He has also had solo exhibitions at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, the Studio la Città in Verona, the Forsblom Gallery in Helsinki and Stockholm, the Anglim Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco, the Leila Heller Gallery in Dubai and Makasiini Contemporary in Turku, among others. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the EMMA – Saastamoinen Foundation, the Sindelfingen show, the California Endowment and numerous other public collections.
Jennifer Rochlin, “Tales in Color and Tone”
Jennifer Rochlin received an MFA in Painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Rochlin’s recent solo shows include California Dreamin ‘, On Such a Winter’s Day, which were shown at Maki Gallery (Tokyo, 2020) and The Pit Gallery (Los Angeles, 2020); “Clay is just thick paint,” Greenwich House Pottery (New York, 2020); “Super Bloom”, Geary (New York, 2019); and “KISS KISS KISS”, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils (Paris, 2018). She has also participated in the group shows “Mass Ornament: Pleasure, Play, and What Lies Beneath,” curated by Alison M. Gingeras, South Etna Montauk (Montauk, 2020); “So far, LA LOMA Projects” (Los Angeles, 2020); “LA on Fire”, curated by Michael Slenske, Wilding Cran Gallery (Los Angeles, 2019); “Calculating Infinity”, curated by Adam D. Miller, Guerrero Gallery (San Francisco, 2019); and “The Party”, curated by Ali Subotnick, Anton Kern Gallery (New York, 2018).
It is represented by The Pit Gallery in Los Angeles and Maki Gallery in Tokyo. Rochlin was a scholarship holder of the Civitella Residency in Umbria, Italy, and Lefebvre & Fils in Versailles, France in 2018. Their work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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