Andrea Blum: BIOTA Public Lecture
ROOTS / ROUTES
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 7:00pm
2nd Floor Flex Space, 205 Hudson Street (at Canal St.)
New York, NY 10013
Join us at 205 Hudson's Flex Space on Wednesday, October 9 at 7pm for a lecture presented in conjunction with current exhibition Andrea Blum: BIOTA. The presentation will cover Blum's works made for public spaces throughout the United States and Europe beginning in the 1970s, as well as more recent works including sculpture, video, and digital images. A conversation with exhibition guest curator Jenny Jaskey and a Q&A will follow the talk.
The lecture will be held in the 2nd floor Flex Space at the Hunter MFA Building (205 Hudson Street), which is accessible by elevator through both the gallery and the main building entrance. Staff will be present to guide visitors. For questions about accessibility, please email hcag@hunter.cuny.edu. A recording of the this event will be available on the exhibition website following the discussion.
Andrea Blum: BIOTA is on view through October 26. 205 Hudson Gallery is open Wednesday–Saturday, 12–6pm. All Hunter College Art Galleries events are free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Andrea Blum (b. 1950, New York) has been engaged in the discourse between art and architecture since the 1970s. She has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (2021); La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Murcia, Spain (2012); Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands (2004); and Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (1999), among others. Blum has designed numerous public commissions, including for the University of Pennsylvania (2018); Mudam, Luxembourg (2008); and the 51st Venice Biennale, Italy (2005). She was set designer for a Gaetano Donizetti Opera, commissioned by Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris (2013), and in 2005 was named Chevalier, Order of Arts and Letters, by the French Minister of Culture. Blum has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, Graham Foundation Fellowship, SJ Weiler Award, Art Matters, NYSCA and NEA Fellowships, and a Design award from the American Institute of Architects. Blum holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. Blum taught in the Department of Art and Art History at Hunter College for over thirty years and retired in 2023 as Associate Chair of Studio.
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This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Foundation To-Life Curatorial Workshop Fund, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, the Judith Whitney Godwin Foundation for the Arts, the Red Painters Fund, Jill Brienza, Agnes Gund, The Katcher Family Foundation Inc., and other private donors. The publication has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Estate of Tony Feher, and a grant from the Wolf Kahn Foundation and the Emily Mason and Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation on behalf of artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn.