Woodward
Lecture Series
Wednesday,
December 10 at 7pm
(NOTE: different day
and time)
WOODWARD LECTURE SERIES
presents:
JOHN
CHAMBERLAIN, sculptor
Born
in Rochester, Indiana
in 1927, John Chamberlain
is an American sculptor,
painter, photographer
and film maker whose
work has been widely
acclaimed since the
late 1950s. He studied
at the Art Institute
of Chicago and at Black
Mountain College in
North Carolina where
he was exposed to the
vanguard theories of
both artists and poets.
He moved to New York
City in 1957 and developed
his method of assemblage,
making his first works
out of crushed automobile
parts, a practice for
which he became immediately
recognized and renowned.
In addition to working
with steel, the medium
for which he is best
know, Chamberlain made
films in the late 1960s,
and has employed various
other media such as
automobile spray paint
on canvas, chrome photography,
foam, foil, paper bags,
and Plexiglas. Both
the Guggenheim Museum
in New York and the
Museum of Contemporary
Art in Los Angeles have
organized major retrospectives
of his work, which is
also included in over
60 major public collections
around the world.
The
CCS Woodward Lecture
Series is made possible
by a generous endowment
gift from an anonymous
donor. Lectures are
held in the Wendell
W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium
in the Walter B. Ford
II Building on
the CCS campus. Lectures
are free and open to
the public.
LIMITED
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