Museum
Events

All Mills College Art Museum exhibitions and programs are open to the public. Admission is free.  

Lecture by Jennifer Steinkamp FEB 8, 2012 LECTURE BY JENNIFER STEINKAMP 7:00 PM, DANFORTH LECTURE HALL Jennifer Steinkamp is a Los Angeles-based artist who uses computer animation and new media to create projection installations that explore architectural space, motion, and phenomenological perception. Her digitally animated works show the interplay between actual and illusionistic space. Streinkamp’s recent projects and exhibitions include Five in Istanbul at the Borusan Muzik Evi in Istanbul, Turkey; Madame Curie at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; and set design for Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung at the New York City Opera. In November 2011, she will participate in Prospect New Orleans, Louisiana.
Artist Talk and Performance FEB 12, 2012 OBJECTS ON MY DRESSER: ARTIST TALK AND PERFORMANCE 1:00–3:00 PM, ART MUSEUM In conjunction with Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, join Dr. Revathi Vikram, psychiatrist, in conversation with Sonya Rapoport followed by a participatory performance of Rapoport’s piece, Objects on My Dresser.
Lecture by Apsara DiQuinzio FEB 15, 2012 LECTURE BY APSARA DIQUINZIO 7:00 PM, DANFORTH LECTURE HALL Apsara DiQuinzio is currently assistant curator of painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where she has organized solo exhibitions with Felix Schramm, Paul Sietsema, Mai-Thu Perret, Vincent Fecteau, and RH Quaytman. She organized the 2008 SECA Art Award Exhibition, as well as the forthcoming 2010 iteration, and Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart. Formerly she worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art where she organized the exhibitions Burgeoning Geometries: Abstract Constructions and Skin Is a Language. In 2010 she received a curatorial research fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. DiQuinzio has an MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001), and a BA, cum laude, from Colgate University (1998).
Pre-release Book Launch MAR 7, 2012 Pre-Release Book Launch, Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya RapoportEdited by Terri Cohn 7:00 PM, ART MUSEUM In conjunction with Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, join Malcolm Margolin of Heyday Press in the launch of Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport. Books will be available for pre-sale.
Lecture by Laurel Nakadate MAR 14, 2012 LECTURE BY LAUREL NAKADATE 7:00 PM, DANFORTH LECTURE HALL Laurel Nakadate is a New York-based photographer, video artist and filmmaker. Her first feature film, Stay the Same Never Change (2009) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was featured in New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center. Her second feature film, The Wolfe Knife, premiered at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival and was nominated for a Gotham Independent Film Award and Independent Spirit Award. Her work has been exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Reina Sofia, Madrid; and her 2011 ten-year-survey exhibition Only the Lonely was held at MoMA PS 1.