PDNB Gallery invites you to a special afternoon gallery talk about László Maholy-Nagy, György Kepes and Carlotta Corpron, Saturday, March 26th at 2 pm with University of Texas, Dallas Professor of Art and Architectural History, Charissa Terranova, and Artist and Texas Woman's University Professor of Art Emerita, Susan kae Grant.
This event is in conjunction with PDNB's current exhibition, The Bauhaus in Texas.
Event is free and open to the public.
RSVP'S are kindly appreciated, by clicking here.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
Charissa N. Terranova is is a writer and educator. Terranova researches complex biological systems from a cultural purview, focusing on the history of evolutionary theory, biology, and biocentrism in art, architecture, and design. Professor of Art and Architectural History, she lectures and teaches seminars at the University of Texas at Dallas on modern and contemporary art and architectural history and theory, the history of biology in art and architecture, and media and new media art and theory. She is coeditor with Meredith Tromble of Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science, and Design, a book series on Bloomsbury Press. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms (Bloomsbury, 2021), an anthology Terranova coedited with Ellen K. Levy and her most recent book, explores how Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's magnum opus On Growth and Form (1917) transformed creative processes across fields. She is author of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (Bloomsbury, 2022 /IB Tauris, 2016) and Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art (2014), and coeditor withMeredith Tromble of The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture(2016). She also edited a two-volume issue of the journal Technoetic Arts on “complexism” (2016).
Susan Kae Grant is an inventive and influential lens-based artist and educator. Her innovative studio practice and distinct personal vision represent one of the mediums more sustained and recognizable contributions to fabricated photography. With an interest in art and science, she uses the shadow as metaphor to create fabricated narratives that explore dreams, memory and the unconscious for her on-going series, “Night Journey”
Grant’s work is collected and exhibited in museums, galleries, and private collections. She has lectured and exhibited her work throughout the United States, Canada, China, Europe, Australia, British Columbia, Africa, Guatemala, and Japan. Her photographic and book-works are included in the public collections of Eastman Museum; J. Paul Getty Museum; Smithsonian Special Collections; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Victoria and Albert National Art Library.
From 1981-2017 Grant served as Head of Photography at Texas Woman's University and named Cornaro Professor of Art Emerita in 2018. She holds an MFA and BS in photography and book arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
