BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10396@cranbrookartmuseum.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211118T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211118T191500 DTSTAMP:20260112T134602Z URL:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/events/artist-martha-wilson-lecture/ SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture: Martha Wilson DESCRIPTION:It only takes 50 years\nMartha Wilson will survey her work from 1971 to 2021\, starting with text-based work created while she was gettin g a MA in English at Dalhousie University in Halifax\, N.S. Canada\, to im age/text and performance art work she created this year.\nMartha Wilson (b . 1947) is a pioneering feminist artist and gallery director\, who over th e past four decades has created innovative photographic and video works th at explore her female subjectivity through role-playing\, costume transfor mations\, and “invasions” of other people’s personae. She began maki ng these videos and photo/text works in the early 1970s while in Halifax i n Nova Scotia\, and further developed her performative and video-based pra ctice after moving in 1974 to New York City.  In 1976 she founded and co ntinues to direct Franklin Furnace Archive\, Inc\,\, an artist-run space t hat champions the exploration\, promotion and preservation of artists’ b ooks\, installation art\, video\, online and performance art\, further cha llenging institutional norms\, the roles artists play within society\, and expectations about what constitutes acceptable art mediums.\nWilson is es teemed for both her solo artistic production and her maverick efforts to c hampion creative forms that are “vulnerable due to institutional neglect \, their ephemeral nature\, or politically unpopular content.” Described by New York Times critic Holland Cotter as one of “the half-dozen mos t important people for art in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s\,” Wilson remains what curator Peter Dykhuis calls a “creative presence as an arts administrator and cultural operative.”\nWritten into and out of art his tory according to the theories and convictions of the time\, Wilson first gained notoriety thanks to the attention of curator Lucy R. Lippard\, who placed Wilson’s early efforts within the context of conceptual art and t he work of women artists. Commenting on Wilson’s first projects\, art hi storian Jayne Wark wrote in 2001:\nIn her conceptually based performance\, video and photo-text works\, Wilson masqueraded as a man in drag\, catalo gued various body parts\, manipulated her appearance with makeup and explo red the effects of “camera presence” in self-representation. Although this work was made in isolation from any feminist community\, it has been seen to contribute significantly to what would become feminism’s most en during preoccupations: the investigation of identity and embodied subjecti vity.\nWilson’s early work is now considered prescient. In addition to b eing regarded by many as prefiguring some of the ideas proposed in the 198 0s by philosopher Judith Butler about gender performativity\, many of her photo-text pieces point to territory later mined by Cindy Sherman\, among many other contemporary artists.\nMartha Wilson joined P.P.O.W Gallery\, N ew York\, and mounted a solo exhibition\, “I have become my own worst fe ar\,” in September 2011.  In 2013\, Wilson received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University .  In 2015\, she received the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellen ce\, administered by the Center for Curatorial Studies\, Bard College\; th e College Art Association’s Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievemen t Award\; and mounted her second solo exhibition at P.P.O.W Gallery. \nHo sted by the Photography Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.\n\n[gravit yform id="20" title="true" description="false"] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cranbrookartmuseum.org/wp-content/upload s/2021/10/final_name_fate_wilson-scaled-1-e1634135068493.jpeg CATEGORIES:Lectures + Talks LOCATION:Cranbrook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium\, 39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bl oomfield Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=39221 Woodward Ave.\, Bloom field Hills\, MI\, 48304\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cranbr ook Art Museum deSalle Auditorium:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR