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3 3 . . EXHIBITIONS Inventing the Print PROJECTS Jeff Wall 1500-1800 JANUARY11 - APRIL13, 2003

JANUARY26 - APRIL27, 2003 The UCLAHammer Museum will present a group of new works by the internationally acclaimedCanadian artist Jeff Wall.Wall's work of the past twenty-five years consists primarily of large-scale, color trans­ Organized by the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, parencies mounted in lightboxes, and, since 1995, black and white Inventing the Print: 1500-1800 features approximately eighty photographs. His pictures resemble both paintings and film stills, rare and important prints from the Center's extensive collec­ drawingthe viewerinto highly specific scenes that imply larger narra­ tion and includes works by Albrecht DUrer, Rembrandt van tives. Rijn, Andrea Mantegna, Jacques (allot, and Jusepe de Ribera. Other works from the UCLALouise M. Darling Biomedical First shown at Documenta11, After "InvisibleMan" by RalphEllison, Librarywill also be featured. the Preface,1999-2001, represents a well-knownscene from Ellison's classic novel. Wall'sversion shows us the cellar room, "warm and full The notion of printing repeatable images is one that dates of light" in which Ellison's narrator lives, complete with its 1,369 back to ancient cultures. It was, however, the Renaissance lightbulbs. Energyand light, stolen from the electric company,illumi­ printmaker's innovative application of the technique to create nate not only the character's basement dwelling, but also the truth of complex and evocative images on paper that was a decisive his existence. He tells us, "Light confirms my reality, gives birth to moment for the history of art and culture. Roughly coinciding my form. ... Without light I am not only invisible but formlessas well; with the invention of moveable type in the West and the and to be unaware of one's form is to live a death .... The truth is the increased availability of paper, printed words and images had light and light is the truth." the capacity to communicate and disseminate information to This large workis accompaniedby a selection of smaller pictures with­ large and diverse audiences in a way never before possible. out figures, including RainfilledSuitcase, 2001. These pictures, which "Prints such as Jacopo de' Barbari's nine-foot lon9 woodcut are straight photographs, complement the "cinematography"of the View of Venice of circa 1500 give an indication of the amaz­ larger piece, and give a sense of the different aspects of Wall'swork. ing accomplishment of the artists exploring the potential of this new medium," says curator Cynthia Burlingham. Erick Swenson Jeff Wall.After "InvisibleMan" by RalphEllison, the Preface, During this period publishers, printmakers, and artists 1999-2001. Cibachrometransparency, aluminum lightbox. JANUARY26 - MAY4, 2003 exploited the printed image's potential to reach a broader Courtesy MarianGoodman Gallery, New York. market than unique works such as painting. They were For Texasartist Erick Swenson'sWest Coast debut, the Hammerwill exhibit a sculpture, Untitled, 2001 of a young deer scraping the ten­ exchanged among artists and artisans to be used a1smodels, Above: Albrecht DUrer, Melenco/iaI, 1514. Engraving. Collection Grunwald der velvet from his antlers onto a resin cast of a large Orientalcarpet . Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum and also were collected by tourists, pilgrims, and wealthy Jeff Wall Usingdigital technology to scan the original carpet and an inkjet bill­ patrons. The art of the print was at its most innovative when PROGRAM: board printer, Swenson has painted the design and color onto the practiced by master artists such as DUrerand Rembrandt, who Sunday, March2, 3pm polyurethane resin cast. The room-sizeinstallation offers us a haunt­ executed their own designs in woodcut and engraving. By the Gallery Talk with Assistant Professor Caroline Streeter. ing juxtaposition of object and creature, both displaced from their end of the eighteenth century, and on the eve of the inven­ Streeter, who is jointly appointed in UCLA'sDepartment of original identities and place. Swenson's HammerProject exemplifies tion of photography, the technical developments in printmak­ Englishand the Centerfor AfricanAmerican Studies, will dis­ his sculptures of fantastic creatures caught in surreal situations. ing led to skilled reproductions of tonal effects that rivaled cuss Wall's work in conjunction with Ralph Ellison's book These works, startling in their originality and humor,are the result of those of painting. InvisibleMan. his lifelong obsession with dioramas, prosthetics, stage sets, and spe­ cial effects.

PROGRAM HammerProjects are made possible with support from The HoraceW. GoldsmithFoundation, The Andy WarholFoundation for the VisualArts, Jim Isermann'slobby mural, Vega (1999-2002), Sunday, March16, 3pm the LosAngeles County Arts Commission,and an anonymousdonor. continues through Spring 2003. GalleryTalk by the exhibition's curator Cynthia Burlingham. 4 5

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Aimee Bender and KillarneyClary ContemporaryPoetry Sunday, May 4, 5pm Aimee Bender is the author of two books: The Girl In the Organized and hosted FlamableSkirt and An Invisible Sign of My Own, both Los Angeles by Stephen Yenser, Times bestsellers. Her short stories have been published in poet and professor at UCLA Harper's,GQ, Granto, and the ParisReview and read on NPR's"This American Life." Bender teaches creative writing at USC and recently received a Pushcart Prize. KillarneyClary is the author of By CommonSalt and Who WhisperedNear Me. Her third collec­ tion of poems, Potential Stranger, will be published in spring of Clockwise:Stephanie 2003 by the University of Chicago Press. Ms. Clary,who lives in Clockwise:Aimee Strickland, John Koethe, Los Angeles, received a Lannan Foundation Fellowshipin 1982. Bender, KillarneyClary Sharon Olds, Alice Fulton, and Charles Baxter J .D. McClatchy CharlesBaxter John Koethe Sunday, May 11, 5pm J. D. McClatchy CharlesBaxter is the author of four books of stories and three Thursday,March 13, 7pm Thursday,January 23, 7pm novels, including The Feast of Love, which was a finalist for the A chancellor of the Academyof American Poets, a professor John Koethe's most recent book of poems is North Point North National Book Award. His new novel, Saul and Patsy, is due out at Yale University, and editor of The Yale Review, J.D. (2002). Among his honors are representation in The Best American later this year. Mr. Baxter has also published essays on fiction McClatchyhas published five volumes of poems, the most Poetry 2001, the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry, the Bernard F. collected in BurningDown the House. He has received the Award Connors Poetry Awardfrom The ParisReview, and the KingsleyTufts recent of which is Hazmat (2002), He has written seven opera in Literature from the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Letters. libretti and has collected two volumes of his essays, White Award. A professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin - This series has been made possible, in part, Milwaukee,he is also the author of Poetry at One Remove-and The Paperand TwentyQuestions. He is co-editor of James Merrill's Phillip Lopate with supportfrom Bronyaand AndrewGalef CollectedPoems and CollectedNovels and Playsand the editor Continuityof Wittgenstein'sThought . of The VintageBook of ContemporaryAmerican Poetry and The Sunday, May 18, 5pm Phillip Lopate is considered one of the leading figures in the VintageBook of ContemporaryWorld Poetry. Alice Fulton Wednesday,Apn"l 30, 7pm resurgence of the contemporary American essay. His essay col­ Urban Poetry/SpokenWord lections include Bachelorhood,Against Joie de Vivre,and Portrait Stephanie Strickland Alice Fulton's most recent volume of poems, Felt, won the Bobbitt Organized and hosted by Catherine Daly, poet and Prize in 2002. Her earlier books of poems include DanceScript with of My Body, and he edited The Art of the PersonalEssay. He has Tuesday,February 4, 7pm also written two poetry books and two novels, a memoir about instructor at UCLAExtension. Electricballerina,Palladium, Powers of Congress,and Sensual Math. t Stephanie Strickland'sV: Waveson.nets/Losing L'Una(2002), The rec!pient of Guggenheimand MacArthurFoundation fellowships, his teaching experiences (Being With Children),and a collection winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Fulton 1s professor of English at Cornell University. of his film criticism (Totally TenderlyTragically). His next book WendyKramer Society of America, is the first book of poetry to appear will be about the NewYork waterfront . Fn"day,Apn"l 4 , 7pm simultaneously in print and on the Web. She has also pub­ SharonOlds Wendy Kramer's stunning image collages are poems. lished Give the Body Back, which was awarded the Sandeen Dog Stories Tuesday,May 6, 7pm Visually, they are "songs without words"; each time Prize, and The Red Virgin:A Poem of Simone Weil, which won Sunday, May 25, 5pm they are read or performed, they change. Whether the Professor in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at: New York the Brittingham Prize. collages are read on page or screen by ordinary readers University,Sharon Olds has received the National BookCritics Circle Bernard Cooper, Trinie Dalton, Amy Gerstler, Glen Gold, Jim and audience members, or by the poet herself in this Award, the Harriet Monroe Prize, the San Francisco PoietryCenter Krusoe, and John Mandel will read stories they have written, or premiere LA multi-media performance, the effect is Award, and the Lamont Selection from the Academy of American stories from world literature, that deal with man's/woman's best fresh and new. Poets. She has also been awarded fellowships from the National friend, the furry, four legged, hide chewing, bone burying crea­ Endowmentfor the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her new ture better known as dog. book of poems is The UnsweptRoom (2002). 8 9 CALENDAROF EVENTS

JANUARY APRIL MAY 16 Thurs 7pm UCLADepartment of Art 2 Wed 7pm HammerConversations 4 Sun 5pm HammerReadings Lecture Series Dorothy Allison and Catherine Opie NewAmerican Writing Jeanne Dunning Aimee Bender and Killarney Clary 4 Fri 7pm HammerReadings 23 Thurs 7pm HammerReadings Urban Poetry/Spoken Word 6 Tues 7pm HammerReadings ContemporaryPoetry Wendy Kramer ContemporaryPoetry J.D. McClatchy Sharon Olds 10 Thurs 7pm UCLADepartment of Art Lecture Series 26 Sun 3pm GalleryTalk - InternationalPaper Paul Schimmel 11 Sun 5pm HammerReadings Artists Iona Rozeal Brown, NewAmerican Writing Yuri Masnyj, and Matthew Tomoko Takahashi's installation, Auditorium 24 Thurs 7pm HammerConversations Charles Baxter Sontheimer with curators Piece, has been extended through Spri 1g. Richard Rodriguez and Lewis Hyde James Elaine and Claudine lse 18 Sun 5pm HammerReadings 30 Wed 7pm HammerReadings NewAmerican Writing 30 Thurs 7pm UCLADepartment of Art ContemporaryPoetry Phillip Lopate Lecture Series MARCH Alice Fulton Roger Herman 2 Sun 3pm GalleryTalk - Caroline Streeter 25 Sun 5pm HammerReadings on Jeff Wall NewAmerican Writing Dog Stories 6 Thurs 7pm UCLADepartment of Art FEBRUARY Lecture Series 4 Tues 7pm HammerReadings Matthew Coolidge ContemporaryPoetry Counte1dockwisefiom top left: TomokoTakahashi, Stephanie Strickland Auditorium Piece. 2002. Mixed media installation; 9 Sun 3pm GalleryTalk-From the Studio to Aaron Morse. Breaking Wm·e,2002 . Watercolor and the Salon: DaumierSketches pencil on papei ; Phillip Lopate; Wendy Kramer 9 Sun 3pm GalleryTalk - InternationalPaper Artists and TheirAudience Artists Carolyn Castano, Aaron UCLAprofessor Albert Boime Morse, and Sandeep Mukherjee For additional program information: with curators James Elaine 13 Thurs 7pm HammerReadings Website: www.hammer.ucla.edu and Claudine Ise ContemporaryPoetry Voice: (310) 443-7000 John Koethe TTY: (310) 443-7094 27 Thurs 7pm UCLADepartment of Art Lecture Series 16 Sun 3pm GalleryTalk -Inventing the Print Pipilotti Rist UCLAHAMMER MUSEUM Exhibition curator Cynthia Burlingham 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90024 All Hammer Museum programs are FREE 20 Thurs 7pm HammerConversations to the public, except where otherwise noted. K.C.Cole and Elizabeth Streb

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Pipilotti Rist Thursday,February 27, 7pm UCLAArt Council Chair UCLADepartment of Art Lecture Series Pipilotti Rist, a Swiss-born video, film, and performance artist, creates art that addresses modern life. She studied commercialart, The Hammeris proud to host these lectures organized by the Department of Art at UCLA. illustration, and photography at the Institute of Applied Arts in Each year the department sponsors a series of lectures featuring some of today's most interesting Vienna, Austria, and audio/video communication at the School for and influential artists, who come to discuss their work as well as current cultural trends. Design in Basel, Switzerland. This lecture is made possible by the This year's programs were organized by Catherine Opie and the UCLADepartment of Art. Department of Art and the generous support of the UCLAArt Council.

Jeanne Dunning Thursday,January 16, 7pm MatthewCoolidge UCLADepartment of Art Visiting Artists Lecture Series Thursday,March 6, 7pm Jeanne Dunning'sphotographic, sculptural, and video work explores Visiting Artist Lecture Series our relationship to our own physicality, looking at the strange and Matthew Coolidge will present a talk entitled, "Interpreting unfamiliar in the body, gender, and notions of normality. Her work Anthropogeomorphology:Programs and Projects of the Center for has been shown extensively since the mid-1980s including at the Land Use Interpretation." Coolidgeis the Director of the Center Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. for Land Use Interpretation, a not-for-profit organization based in This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Los Angeles that produces exhibits, tours, publications, and other WilliamD. Feldman Family EndowedArt Lecture Fund. programming related to the built landscape of the United States. This lecture is made possible through the generous support of the Roger Herman WilliamD . Feldman Family EndowedArt Lecture Fund. Thursday,January 30, 7pm Visiting Artist Lecture Series Roger Herman is professor of painting and drawing in the UCLA Paul Schimmel Department of Art. Roger's solo shows include exhibitions at Thursday,April 10, 7pm Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles UCLAArt CouncilVisiting Professor and New York; and Proment Putman Galerie, Paris. His work is Paul Schimmel has been chief curator at The Museum of included in many private and public collections, including the Los Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, since 1990. He has organized Angeles County Museumof Art, the WalkerArt Center, and the San many exhibitions including HelterSkelter: Los Angeles Art in the Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This lecture is made possible 1990s; Hand-PaintedPop: American Art in Transition,1955-62; through the generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Sigmar PolkePhotoworks: When PicturesVanish; Robert Gober; Out EndowedArt Lecture Fund. of Actions: Between Performanceand the Object, 1949-1979;and CharlesRay. This lecture is made possible by the Department of Art and the generous support of the UCLAArt Council.

Above: Roger Herman, Untitled, 2002. Drawing; Opposite (top) Pipilotti Rist, I Couldn't Agree With You More,1999. Videoinstallation. Photo by A. Triihler. Courtesy of Gallery Hauser & Wirth, Zurich and LuhringA ugustine, New York.(bot tom) Center for Land Use InterpretationArchives P hoto.

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MembershipEvents Featured Benefit To show our appreciation for members who provide support for Hammermembers receive discounts ranging from 15% to 40% Lunchtime Art Talks our programs throughout the year, we hosted Member'sDay at off the regular subscription price for Artforum,Art in America, the Hammeron December8. Memberswere invited to enjoy an Antiques, and Interview magazines. Call 310.443.7050 for additional 10% discount in the bookstore, holiday treats pro­ information. Wednesdaysat 12:30pm vided by Soup's On, and docent-led tours of The Armand Forinformation or to becomea member,call the Membership HammerCollection and current exhibitions. Drop into the Hammerfor a welcome mid­ Department at 310.443.7050 or visit our website at www.hammer.ucla.edu. day escape. LunchtimeArt Talksis a series On December17, HammerFellows attended a reception for the of 15-minute talks by Hammercurators on unveiling of artist Moniquevan Genderen's holiday installation one work of art. Each Art Talk begins at After "InvisibleMan" by RalphEllison, Viewof the Cityof Venice at the W Hotel in Westwood.The second half of the evening 12:30 pm and ends at 12:45pm. the Prefaceby Jeff Wall (or Bird'sE ye Viewof Venice) included a lively discussion on today's art market with Deborah February5 by Jacopo De 'Barbari February12 McLeod,Vice President of Post War and ContemporaryArt at Christie's Los Angeles, and New York-based art advisor, Allan Schwartzman.

Featured Membership Supporter ($300) members receive great benefits in addition to the basics including invitations to special receptions, free weekend parking at the Museum,a complimentary exhibition catalogue, and a 20% bookstore discount.

Hammer Members Heather and Miller Updegraff on Members Day at the Hammer.

Sponsorsand Special Thanks Squarein Argenteuil by Gustave Caillebotte MelencoliaI by Albrecht DiJrer · February19 February26 Our many thanks to the following foundations, corporations, We would also like to thank the following individuals for and government agencies for their support of the Museum's offering vital assistance to Hammerprograms and exhibitions: exhibitions and programs in 2002. Their generous gifts allowed LloydCotsen, Bronyaand AndrewGalef, Alan Hergott and Curt the Hammerto offer exciting and innovative cultural program­ Sheppherd, Maria Hummerand Bob Tuttle, Werner Kramarsky, ming for audiences from UCLA,Los Angeles, and beyond. Betty Leonard, Herbert L. Lucas, Eileen Norton, Joan Palevsky, Lee and Larry Ramer, Dennis and Debra Scholl, John Tunney, The Ahmanson Foundation, Arthur Andersen, LLP, British and the many wonderful members of the Hammercommunity. Council, British Consulate- General Los Angeles, California Arts Council,Columbia Pictures, DreamworksProductions, The Horace And for their in-kind support, we thank: W. Goldsmith Foundation, Murrayand Ruth Gribin Foundation, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Doubletree The Japan Foundation Los Angeles Office,The J.P. MorganChase Hotel Los Angeles-Westwood, Napa Valley Grille, Samuel Foundation, Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles County Arts Adams, and W Hotel Los Angeles. Commission, Los Angeles Unified School District, LLWW Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Pasadena Art OccidentalPetroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Alliance, Paramount Pictures, Peter Norton Family Foundation, Museumand constructed the OccidentalPetroleum Cultural Hearingfrom The FiveSenses by TheAir Pump by Valentine Green, after Joseph Untitled by ErickSwenson and The Andy WarholFoundation for the Visual Arts. Center Building, which houses the Museum. Phillipe Mercier March 12 Wright of Derby March 19 March26 14 15 At the

Gallerist Gavin Brownand artist Artists Dave Mullerand Kent Young Hammermembership director Jennifer Katell, Elizabeth Peyton Ann and Bill Harmsen

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Gallerists Kristin Rey and Sheldon LaPierre HammerProject artist Artist Jay Liza, Julie Lee, artist CrysCho, Tadashi Takazawa featuring the artist Patterson 16 Jim Isermann 17 News exhibitions UpcomingExhibitions at the Hammer

Christian Marclay • RoyAaron, business consultant and past president and chair of The UCLA May 31 - August 31, 2003 Foundation, has been appointed to the board of the Armand Hammer Museumand CulturalCenter. The first in-depth presentation of Christian Marclay's work in an American museum, this exhibition includes a full range of sculpture, collage, installa­ • Amongthe works from the ArmandHammer Collection that are currently tion, photography, and video made over the last twenty years. Exploringthe touring are three significant paintings. relationship between sound and vision, Marclay'sart focuses our attention not only on the audible qualities of sound, but also on the way it is experienced, Rembrandt van Rijn's Juno is part of an international exhibition visualized, and translated into other forms. Organized by the UCLAHammer entitled Rembrandt Rembrandt, which opened in November at Museum, this exhibition will travel to the Bard College Center for Curatorial Japan's Kyoto National Museumand travelled to the Stadelsches Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, Germany. Studies Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Seattle Art Museum; and the KunstmuseumThun, Switzerland. Dancersin YellowSkirts by Edgar Degas is touring until May in EdgarDegas: The Painterof Dancers,organized by the American Federation of Arts, with venues at the Detroit Institute of Arts and The Euniceand Hal David Collection the Philadelphia Museumof Art. of 19th- and 20th-Century Workson Paper Early September 2003 - mid January 2004 John Singer Sargent's Dr. Pozzi at Home will be included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition, The French Taste for The collection comprises approximately 60 European and American drawings Spanish Painting. dating from the early 19th through the late 20th century. Various types of drawings, such as exploratory sketches, preliminary drawings for paintings and large-scale or highly-finished presentation drawings, are included. Over 50 • Hammerdirector Ann Philbin was one of five jurors for the 2002 Francis major artists are represented, including Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Edward J. GreenburgerAward which was founded to identify and celebrate artists Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Richard Diebenkorn, Georgia O'Keeffe, who are knownto be of extraordinarymerit, but who have not fully rec­ Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso, and ognized for their contributions. Sculptor Lee Bontecou was selected by • David Hockney. This exhibition will travel to the Portland Art Museum. Philbin

• The GrunwaldCenter, UCLADepartment of Information Studies, California Lee Bontecou:A Retrospective Digital Library,and partners from six Californiamuseums received a grant October 5, 2003 - January 12, 2004 from the Institute of Museumand LibraryServices to support "Museums The first major exhibition of the artist's work as a whole, Lee Bontecou: A and the OnlineArchive of CaliforniaUser Evaluation." Retrospective, includes sculptures and drawings by the American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) - one of the leading figures of her generation. Bontecou • ChiefCurator Russell Ferguson served as a jury memberfor the prestigious created a strikingly original body of work that was critically acclaimed and Beck's Futures exhibition to be held in April at the Institute of actively collected during the 1960s and 1970s. The work she has created since ContemporaryArts in London.The other jurors were MariaLind, Director of the MunichKunstverein, and the artist MichaelLandy. that time, however, is little known and has never been publicly exhibited. The exhibition presents approximately 50 sculptures and 75 drawings that span • The National Endowmentfor the Arts has made a major grant to The several decades and provide an extraordinary opportunity to re-evaluate the Regents of the Universityof Californiaat Los Angeles, on behalf of the career of an artist who has become a legendary figure in the art world. This UCLAHammer Museum, to support Lee Bontecou:A Retrospectivewhich exhibition is co-organized by the UCLAHammer Museum and the Museum for will open at the Hammeron October 5, 2003. ContemporaryArt, Chicago. In addition to its Los Angeles and Chicagovenues, the exhibition will travel to The Museum of Modern Art in NewYork . • The J. P. MorganChase Foundationhas provideda generous grant through their CaliforniaArts and CulturalGrants Programto support the Hammer's From top to bottom: Christian Marclayin performance, 1983; Sam Francis, Study for ChaseMural, 1959. professional development program for teachers at Moffett Elementary Watercoloron paper. The Eunice and Hal David Collection of 19th and 20th Century Workson Paper. Photography by Robert Wedemeyer;Lee Bontecou, Untitled, 1966. Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Art, Schoolin Lennox. Chicago. Gift of Robert B. Mayer Family Collection. 18 19