'The Body in the Library,' lecture and exhibit reception in Center City

The Department of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Tyler School of Art will present

The Body in the Library,
a lecture by critic & art historian
Howard Singerman

and reception with artist David Bunn
Monday, February 7, 2005 at 7 p.m.

at the Arden Theater
40 N. 2nd Street, Old City

The focus of the lecture will be artist David Bunn's Double Monster project, completed while in residence at the Mutter Museum, College of Physicians, Philadelphia, and dedicated to the memory of Gretchen Worden.

Howard Singerman has been a crucial voice in the field of contemporary art history and criticism, and in examinations of the professional education of contemporary artists. Singerman is a regular contributor to Artforum, and author of the influential Art Subjects: Making Artists in the American University (University of California Press, 1999). Singerman has also contributed essays to October, Parkett, Emergences, Art in America, La Part de L'Oeil and numerous publications including ! Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes; Chris Burden: A Twenty-Year Survey; and A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation. Currently Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia, he has also taught in the art history department at Barnard College and in a number of studio art departments and art schools, including UCLA, the California Institute of the Arts, and the Art Center College of Design.

For more information call 215.782.2776

Ellen Napier
Exhibitions Coordinator
Tyler School of Art
7725 Penrose Avenue
Elkins Park, PA 19027
215.782.2776