Visiting artist James Siena to present free lecture

calendar icon08 Apr 2013    

New York-based artist James Siena will present a free public lecture on Thursday, April 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, 12th and R streets, on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln city campus. His visit is sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History and made possible through a grant from the Hixson-Lied Endowment.

Siena, who received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cornell University, creates rule-based linear abstractions. His artwork is driven by self-imposed predetermined sets of rules, or “visual algorithms,” which find their end-result in intensely concentrated, vibrantly-colored, freehand geometric patterns.

Siena works across a diverse range of media, including lithography, etching, woodcut, engraving, drawing and painting. His work is held in numerous prestigious public and private collections across the U.S., including Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

For more information on Siena's visit to UNL, please contact the Department of Art and Art History at (402) 472-5522.