Photographer Ron Jude presents ‘Those Are Not Mountains You See’ Oct. 11

Photograph by Ron Jude from the exhibition “Lago.”
Photograph by Ron Jude from the exhibition “Lago.”

Photographer Ron Jude presents ‘Those Are Not Mountains You See’ Oct. 11

calendar icon30 Sep 2016    

Lincoln, Neb.--Photographer Ron Jude will present the next lecture of the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series, titled “Those Are Not Mountains You See,” on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 5:30 p.m. in Sheldon Museum of Art’s auditorium on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln city campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

 

Jude’s visit is sponsored by Sheldon Museum of Art and the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture Series.

 

Jude will discuss the dubious empirical and storytelling assumptions we make about photographic images, his sleight-of-hand influence on these expectations and how this strategy employs narrative as an artificial container for an engagement with the poetics of experience.

His lecture coincides with his exhibition, “Lago,” a series of color photographs in which Jude seeks to reconcile the vagaries of memory with a human need to create a narrative based on lived experience. “Lago” is open through Dec. 31 at Sheldon Museum of Art.

 

Born in Los Angeles and raised in rural Idaho, Jude currently lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches photography at the University of Oregon. His photographs have been exhibited at The Photographer’s Gallery (London), Daugeu Cultural Center (South Korea) and Roth/Horowitz Gallery (New York). He is the co-founder of A-Jump Books.

 

He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Louisiana State University and his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Boise State University.

 

The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to UNL each semester to enhance the education of students.

 

Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations. Every visiting artist or scholar gives at least one major lecture that is free and open to the public.

 

The remaining lectures in the series this Fall include:

• Iva Gueorguieva, painting and sculpture, on Oct. 20 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. She lives and works in Los Angeles and received her Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.

• Radha Pandey, papermaker and letterpress printer, on Oct. 27 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Pandey earned her Master of Fine Arts in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship.

• Priya Kambli, photography, on Nov. 10 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Kambli’s work is rooted in her fascination in the intersection between her parents’ lives in India and her own in the U.S. For Kambli, photography is a means to bridge the gap between two cultures, come to terms with the effects of displacement and to illuminate connections between the past and the present.

• Chris Gustin and Gerit Grimm, ceramics, on Nov. 15 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 15. Their visit is sponsored primarily by the UNL Clay Club. Gustin is one of the leading ceramists of his generation with more than 40 solo exhibitions at leading institutions and galleries throughout the world. Grimm is assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522.

 

Additional artists may be added to the schedule. Visit https://go.unl.edu/63pf for updates.