[curatorial.net] Behind the Enantiomorph -- gallery talk on Robert Smithson

[Christopher Howard]

Saturday, March 22 at 4:00 PM
"Behind the Enantiomorph: A Biographical Key to Robert Smithson's References
to Doubling--and to Death"
A lecture by Suzaan Boettger
 
NURTUREart is pleased to present a lecture by Suzaan Boettger in the context
of the gallery's current exhibition, Enantiomorphic Chamber. A scholar of
earthworks and of Smithson, Boettger will discuss the particular
circumstances of Smithson's birth and family structure--a type of situation
well-known in psychoanalytic literature and similarly experienced by Vincent
van Gogh, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dalí, Cary Grant, and Princess Diana--and
argue its revelatory force in understanding particular themes in Smithson's
painting, earthworks, nonfiction prose, and poetry.
 
Boettger is the author of Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Her essay "In the Yucatan:
Mirroring Presence and Absence" appeared in the exhibition catalogue for the
Robert Smithson retrospective, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in
2004-5. An occasional contributor to Art In America, she has written an
article on environmentalism in contemporary art for the upcoming May issue.
Her essay "Earthworks' Contingencies" was included in Ethics and the Visual
Arts, edited by Elaine A. King and Gail Levin (New York: Allworth Press,
2006), and her forthcoming book is Nedko Solakov: 99 Fears (New York:
Phaidon, 2008).
 
NURTUREart Gallery
910 Grand Street, 2nd Floor
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York 11211
718-782-7755
L Train to Grand Street
 
Enantiomorphic Chamber
February 15­March 23, 2008
http://www.artcal.net/event/view/2/6352
Review by Jerry Saltz: http://nymag.com/listings/art/enantiomorphic-chamber/
 
Curated by Kevin Regan and Christopher Howard
 
Artists: Gabriel Fowler, Wendy Heldmann, Sebastian Lemm, Elissa Levy, Julie
A. McConnell, Jon Rappleye, Mark Stockton, and Marc Travanti
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