San Francisco artist Jenny Odell, whose works are currently on view in the Paul Mesaros Gallery at the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center, will present a visiting artist lecture, Thursday, Oct. 24.
The event begins at 5 p.m., in the Creative Arts Center’s Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A) and is free and open to the public. The opening reception for her exhibition, and also for the exhibition by Carol Hummel in the Laura Mesaros Gallery, will follow the lecture at 6 p.m. at the galleries.
Odell is a Bay Area native with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design from the San Francisco Art Institute and a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work has been featured at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Google Headquarters, and Les Rencontres D’Arles in France. It has also turned up in TIME Magazine, the Atlantic, the NPR Picture Show, Pop-up Magazine, Rhizome, Guernica, and ESPN Magazine. Abroad, her work has been featured in Die Zeit, European Photography, NEON Magazine, Le Soir and Elephant Magazine.
As a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission individual artist grant, she is working on a new large-scale body of work to be exhibited in February 2014. She is currently a lecturer at Stanford University.
This year’s School of Art & Design Visiting Artist Lecture Series explores themes related to the School’s Global Positioning Studies program. GPS is an interdisciplinary visual art and design initiative that positions students at the crossroads between a local sense of place and a global understanding of that place in the world. For more information, see: http://artanddesign.wvu.edu/gps.
For more information about Odell, see her website at: http://www.jennyodell.com/.
The current exhibitions in the galleries will be open through Dec. 10. Mesaros Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, from noon to 9:30 p.m. The galleries are closed on Sundays and University holidays. All Mesaros Galleries events are free and open to the public. For more information, call curator Robert Bridges at (304) 293-2312.
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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu
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