The Lesley MFA in Visual Arts talks will take place at 7 pm EST and will be livestreamed at LesleyMFA.org.
January 9 — Emmet Gowin
For six decades, Emmet Gowin has contemplated humanity's relationship to the natural world with visual wonderment. His photographs have evolved from intimate portraits of his wife Edith Morris and extended Virginia family to creating formally abstract, luminous compositions of the environment and human landscape. He taught at Princeton University from 1973 until his retirement in 2009.
January 10 — Elle Pérez
Elle Pérez has worked primarily in photography, depicting the intimate moments, emotional exchanges, and visceral details of their subjects and landscapes. Pérez has held solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 and 47 Canal, and group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, the Barbican, London, the Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennial. They are on the faculty at Harvard University.
January 11 — Nora Lawrence
Nora Lawrence is the artistic director and chief curator at Storm King Art Center. Having served as a curator for ten years at Storm King, among the recent exhibitions and projects Lawrence has developed are “Indicators: Artists on Climate Change” (2018); “Mark Dion: Follies” (2019); “Kiki Smith river light” (2020); “Rashid Johnson: The Crisis” (2021); and Sarah Sze’s permanent installation Fallen Sky, 2021.
January 12 — Tammy Nguyen
Tammy Nguyen is a multimedia artist whose work spans painting, drawing, printmaking and book making. Intersecting geopolitical realities with fiction, her practice addresses lesser-known histories through a blend of myth and visual narrative. Exhibitions of hers include those at MOMA PS1, Smack Mellon, Rubin Museum, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre in Vietnam, Berlin Biennial, and the Bronx Museum. She is on the faculty at Wesleyan University.
January 13 — Andrew S. Yang
Andrew S. Yang is a transdisciplinary artist and scholar who works across the sciences, art, and history to examine humans’ relationships with nature and culture. His work has been exhibited from Oklahoma to Yokohama, including commissions for the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2016). Yang's writings span ecology, aesthetics, and philosophy and can be found in Art Journal, Leonardo, Biological Theory, and Antennae. He holds a PhD in biology, is a full professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is a distinguished alum of the Lesley MFA in Visual Arts program.