visiting artist: Buzz Spector

Thursday, 15 April 2004

Public Lecture: 7:00 pm , Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 30 ten Hoor Hall

Studio Visits: Friday, April 16, 2004 - Sign-Up in 103 Garland Hall

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; and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh , PA.

His work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception. Spector was a co-founder of WhiteWalls, a magazine of writings by artists, in Chicago in 1978, and served as the
publication's editor until 1987. Since then he has written extensively on topics in contemporary art and culture, and has contributed reviews and essays to a number of publications, including American Craft, Artforum, Art Issues, Dialogue, Exposure, New Art Examiner, and Visions.

Spector earned his B.A. in Art from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1972, and his M.F.A. with the Committee on Art and Design at the University of Chicago in 1978. In 1991 he was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and in 1982, 1985, and 1991 he
received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards. He is professor and chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University .

Authors ( white-haired man ),
torn printed papers on lectern, edition: 2
19" x 19" x 8"

Websites for reference

http://www.concentric.net/~lndb/vislog1/v1buz.htm

http://www.mcachicago.org/MCA/exhibit/Collection/IAC/Spector.html

http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/samek_artgallery/spector.html

http://www.segura.com/spector1.html

http://www.artline.com/galleries/mateyka/artists/spector/list.html

http://www.centerforbookarts.org/exhibits/USA/spector.html

http://www.urbanclay.com/buzz/buzz01.html

http://www.urbanclay.com/buzz/buzz01.html

http://revolutn.com/archive/spec/index.html

http://www.mta.net/other_info/metroart/green/ma_mrglcbs1.htm

Funding is provided by the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Art at The University of Alabama.

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