Art historian and critic Jeannine Tang, from Bard College, will give a talk entitled "The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004)" in the Handwerker Gallery on Thursday March 30 at 6 pm.Art historian and critic Jeannine Tang, from Bard College, will give a talk entitled "The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004)" in the Handwerker Gallery on Thursday March 30 at 6 pm.
Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. operated between 1983-2004, supporting such artists as Mary Heilmann, Renée Green, Andrea Fraser, Julia Scher, Cady Noland, Peter Fend, Alex Bag, and Art Club 2000. By employing the operations of a commercial gallery, Pat Hearn and Colin de Land marshalled available forms of professional identity, educational or commercial support, to renew--in disparate guises--the historical commitments of alternative spaces to institutional critique and subcultural life. This lecture, "The Conditions of Being Art," will address de Land and Hearn's pivotal work and influence, and the forthcoming exhibition at the Hessel Museum, Bard College.
Jeannine Tang is an art historian and critic who received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and holds a B.A. from the National University of Singapore. Previously a Terra Foundation fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, she was also a Critical Studies participant at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Her writing has appeared in venues such as Artforum; Art Journal; Theory, Culture & Society; Afterimage; journal of visual culture; Art India; Broadsheet, among others. Recent and forthcoming essays in books have focused on institutional critique and the afterlife of art (Provenance: An Alternate History of Art, Getty Research Institute 2012); feminism and international survey exhibitions (Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgression, Liverpool University Press 2013); spectatorship and indigenous sovereignty (Critical Landscapes, University of California Press, 2014); temporalities after postmodernism (Time/Image, 2014-2015). She has published on the work of Cheo Chai- Hiang, Maria Eichhorn, Simryn Gill, Andrea Geyer, Hans Haacke, Sharon Hayes, Martin Beck, among others.
Dr. Tang's talk is sponsored by the Department of Art History and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
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