| Learn more at www.guggenheim.org/cca. The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund: Conversations with Contemporary Artists Nicola López Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 6:30 pm Nicola López (b. 1975, Santa Fe, New Mexico) works with printmaking, drawing, and installation to describe and reconfigure our contemporary and increasingly urban landscape. Her sculptural prints and intricate constructions investigate the nature of place and mankind's complex relation to it. In Landscape X, created as part of the Guggenheim's ongoing Intervals series, López assembles a site-specific sculptural collage environment on view in three levels of the rotunda. Utilizing elements from the construction site as a point of inception, López employs symbols of urban infrastructure to craft a graphic expanse of forms which boldly expand into the Frank Lloyd Wright space. Inaugurated in 2001, this lecture series features artists reflecting on their work and current issues in the art world. Rechristened in spring 2006 as the Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund: Conversations with Contemporary Artists, these talks provide an opportunity for the public to hear from the most innovative international artists working today and to learn about their creative processes. Both established and emerging artists working in all mediums have participated in this enlightening program. The roster has included Slater Bradley, Tacita Dean, Roni Horn, Emily Jacir, Christian Marclay, Aleksandra Mir, Catherine Opie, Tino Sehgal ... |
