Your ex-pat-Chicagoan, foreign correspondent for Sharkforum, will be giving a speech at the Annual Conference of the CAA (College Art Association, the US organization for art historians) in Boston, in February. Please come!
The Session is titled:
From the Page to the Wall: From Graphic Novels to Gallery Comics
It occurs on:
Friday, February 24, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
at Hynes Convention Center, Second Level, Room 210
My presentation is
"PANELS, COVERS AND VIEWERS: MY MONGRELS OF PAINTING, INSTALLATION AND COMICS"
Some info:
Mark Staff Brandl, an internationally active artist, critic and theorist, has been invited to present a lecture on his art in Boston at the Annual Conference of the prestigious College Art Association, the US organization of art historians and curators. His presentation will be a part of the session From the Page to the Wall: From Graphic Novels to Gallery Comics, chaired by Christian Hill. (For more click here.)
The slide lecture will concern Brandl's own artwork, which is a "mongrel" combination of installation, painting and comics, and discuss it in relationship to the definition of fine art and of comics (sequentiality, word and image, closure, iconosequentiality, etc.), the influence and confluence of popular and fine art, as well as viewers' relationship to the works from the perspectives of both "high" and "low" art. An exemplary work is this installation can be found here.
www.markstaffbrandl.com
Special thanks to Pro Helvetia