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Falk Visiting Artist: Janine Antoni at The Weatherspoon
Tye Harris
Issue date: 10/2/07 Section: Arts & Entertainment
The current Falk Visiting Artist, Janine Antoni, who often constructs her works around activities of every day life such as bathing and sleeping, will have an exhibition up in The Weatherspoon until Dec. 23.
Antoni, who was born in 1964 in the Bahamas, is an internationally-known artist, having shown her works in places such as London, Berlin and Stockholm. Antoni earned her BA degree from Sarah Lawrence College and later went on to gain a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 as well as a Painting and Sculpture Grant from The Joan Mitchell Foundation, along with many other awards over the years. The artist has done many group exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions. Antoni now lives in New York and is in association with Luhring Augustine, New York.
In 1992 Antoni created a work called Gnaw, in which she chewed large blocks of chocolate and lard into lipstick and chocolate boxes. The exhibition in The Weatherspoon contains three works, one called If I Die Before I Wake, Mortar and Pestle and Touch. According to The Weatherspoon's webite about the artist, each work represents the artist's "relationship to the world."
The Falk Visiting Artist series has been a part of The Weatherspoon agenda since 1982 and gives students and the community a chance to closely interact with visiting artists. Antoni will be giving her Artist's Talk on Nov. 7 and 4:00 p.m., and will be giving an Artist's Lecture on Nov. 8 at 5:30 p.m.
Antoni, who was born in 1964 in the Bahamas, is an internationally-known artist, having shown her works in places such as London, Berlin and Stockholm. Antoni earned her BA degree from Sarah Lawrence College and later went on to gain a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 as well as a Painting and Sculpture Grant from The Joan Mitchell Foundation, along with many other awards over the years. The artist has done many group exhibitions as well as solo exhibitions. Antoni now lives in New York and is in association with Luhring Augustine, New York.
In 1992 Antoni created a work called Gnaw, in which she chewed large blocks of chocolate and lard into lipstick and chocolate boxes. The exhibition in The Weatherspoon contains three works, one called If I Die Before I Wake, Mortar and Pestle and Touch. According to The Weatherspoon's webite about the artist, each work represents the artist's "relationship to the world."
The Falk Visiting Artist series has been a part of The Weatherspoon agenda since 1982 and gives students and the community a chance to closely interact with visiting artists. Antoni will be giving her Artist's Talk on Nov. 7 and 4:00 p.m., and will be giving an Artist's Lecture on Nov. 8 at 5:30 p.m.
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