Jeff Koons, Tulips, 1994
Thursday, October 26, 2023
7:30 PM
The feminist art of Judy Chicago began in the 1970s and continued with Barbara Kruger, the Guerilla Girls, Kiki Smith, and Alexis Smith in the 1980s. The Pattern and Decoration movement, inspired by traditional fabric and fiber crafts, thrived in California and New York with artists like Miriam Shapiro, Faith Ringgold, Kim MacConnel, and Robert Kushner.
In the era of post-modernism, artists appropriated aspects of previous art movements into their work. Examples are Cindy Sherman, and Neo-Expressionists like Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, A. R. Penck, Jörg Immendorf, Sigmar Polke, and Julian Schnabel.
Street artists, like Banksy, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Keith Haring, made their statements on public buildings.
Environmental artist Andy Goldworthy, Maya Lin, Wolfgang Laib, and Yayoi Kusama worked with organic material to create impermanent art. Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst had their sculptures manufactured.
About Cornelia Feye:
Cornelia Feye received her M.A. in Art History and Anthropology from the University of Tübingen, Germany. After five years in New York, she moved to San Diego, where she taught Eastern and Western Art History. Her museum experience includes the Mingei International, the San Diego Museum of Arts, the Museum of Man, and the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. From 2007 to 2017 she was the School of the Arts Director at the Athenaeum. Her first novel, Spring of Tears, an art mystery set in France won the San Diego Book Award for the mystery category in 2011. Her second art mystery, House of the Fox, is set in Anza Borrego desert and San Diego. Her third novel, Private Universe, a coming-of-age story and art mystery, was released in 2017. Publications include art historical essays and reviews in English and German. She is the founder of Konstellation Press, an independent publishing company specializing in genre fiction and poetry at the intersection of art, music and literature. Konstellation Press just won another San DIEGO Book Award for our short story anthology Magic, Mystery & Murder.
Individual lecture tickets: $15/20
The lectures will be in person at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. There are no physical tickets for these events. Your name will be on an attendee list at the front door. Doors open at 7 p.m. Seating is first-come; first-served. These events will be presented in compliance with State of California and County of San Diego health regulations as applicable at the time of each lecture.
Masks optional. If you have a fever, cough, or flu-like symptoms, please stay home.