New York: Artist Talk – Catherine Opie

Press release via Leslie-Lohman Museum eDigest, Tuesday, August 20.

Diana by Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie, Diana, 2012, Pigment print, 33 x 25 in. (c)Catherine Opie, Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

 

Artist Talk – Catherine Opie

September 12, 6-8 pm
NYU Fales Library Reading Room
70 Washington Square
New York, NY 10012
General Admission: $10

The lecture will be covering a large range of Catherine Opie’s work, including the most recent series exhibited earlier this year.

Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio and received her MFA from CalArts in 1988. Opie’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including a mid-career survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2008. Her photographs include series of portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging in format from large-scale color works to smaller black and white prints. Moving from the territory of the body to the framework of the city, Opie’s various photographic series are linked together by a conceptual framework of cultural portraiture. Opie is the 2013 recipient of the Julius Shulman Excellence in Photography Award and was awarded a United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. She is currently a professor of photography at UCLA.