Alex Stern: Apr. 20, 2023
Artist Lecture: April 20, 2023, 7:00 PM // Art and Architecture Building, Room 109 // Sponsored by the Painting and Drawing Department
Alex Stern has lived and worked in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in Studio Art from the University ofAlexander Stern Colorado at Boulder and his MFA in Painting from Boston University. He was awarded the Kahn Prize and the Joseph Ablow Memorial Painting Prize from Boston University in 2020. In the same year, he was featured in New American Paintings. In 2021 he was awarded residencies at MASS MoCA and CalArts in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth.
People are welcome to attend this lecture virtually through a Zoom meeting.
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Alex Stern explains his approach to art, saying, “The cross examination of art-history and contemporary culture from my personal vantage point yields a resonance of ideas from varied perspectives. Making paintings is a prayer-like practice, meditating on the unknown known, the unnamable—a transformative space where the subjective converts to the objective—all while contributing to and participating in a discourse that spans a wider continuum of history. While I approach my work with specific questions in mind, my practice includes an openness and freedom to undo or shift original intentions.”