Visiting Faculty 2013–14

Each year, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies extends invitations to leading practitioners in these fields to teach courses. For almost fifty years, visiting filmmakers and visual artists have worked closely with students and made a significant impact on the curriculum, as well as contributed to the overall creative and intellectual life of the university.

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University presents Visiting Faculty 2013-14, with work by Kalup Linzy, Catherine Lord, Luisa Rabbia, Halsey Rodman, Heather Rowe and Roger White.

Kalup Linzy is a video and performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Stuckey, Florida. Linzy received his MFA from the University of South Florida. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Linzy has been the recipient of numerous awards including a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Creative Capital Foundation grant, a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant, and The Head- lands Center for the Arts Alumni Awards Residency. His work is in the public collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In summer 2010, Linzy appeared on the long running ABC soap opera General Hospital alongside James Franco in a storyline that incorporated performance art. In 2011, he was featured in the production Four Saints in Three Acts: An Opera Installation, presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center. He has released three full length albums and two EPs. His latest, Romantic Loner (2012/13), is a multi-platform project that includes an album, a feature lm, two short lms, live performances, and an ongoing series of collages.

Catherine Lord is Professor Emerita of Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine. She is a writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. She is the author of two text/image experimental narratives, The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation (University of Texas Press), recently translated into French as L’Ete de Sa Calvitie, and Son Colibri, Sa Calvitie, Miss Translation (L’une bevue, Paris). She is the co-author, with Richard Meyer, of the survey Art and Queer Culture (Phaidon Press, 2013). Her critical essays and her ction have been published in Afterimage, Art & Text, Artcoast, New Art Examiner, Whitewalls, Framework, Documents, Art Journal, GLQ, X-tra and Art Paper, as well as the collections The Contest of Meaning, Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present, Reframings: New American Feminisms in Pho- tography, The Passionate Camera, Hers 3, Space, Site and Intervention: Issues in Installation and Site- Speci c Art, Decomposing, The Art of Queering in Art, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, and En Todas Partes: Politicas de la Diversidad en El Arte. Her curated exhibitions include “Pervert,” “Trash,” “Gender, fucked” and “Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Visual Art.” Her work as a visual artist has been shown at Site Santa Fe, the New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, La Mama Gallery, Post Gallery, the Thomas Jancar Gallery, the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives, and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University.

Luisa Rabbia was born in 1970 in Pinerolo (Torino, Italy) and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions at Peter Blum Gallery (2012); Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, curated by Beatrice Merz (2010); Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy, curated by Beatrice Merz (2009); Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venezia, Italy (2009); and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, (2008). Group exhibitions include shows at the MAGA, Museo Arte Gallarate, curated by Francesca Pasini and Angela Vettese (2010); MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Roma, Italy, curated by Paolo Colombo (2007); and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva (2006).

Halsey Rodman is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. His work proposes a consen sual and liberating encounter with objects by rendering apparent the radical instability of their forms. Though appearing disparate and sometimes improvised, his work is conceived and executed using specfic structural, performative, and/or temporal frameworks. Rodman often integrates gestural painting, diagrammatic drawing, and intense color with sculptural and architectural constructions. He has collaborated with others to realize “event-based group gurative sculptures.” Rodman draws inspiration from wide-ranging sources, from the Pink Panther to Lacan to Kafka. Rodman received his BA in sculpture from the College of Creative Studies at UCSB and his MFA from Columbia University and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally at venues including Guild & Greyshkul (NY), Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, and, in collaboration with the SFBC, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Recent shows include a solo presentation at Arte Portugal 10 (Lisbon) and group exhibitions at Laurel Gitlen (NY) and Sue Scott Gallery (NY). Forthcoming projects include a new commission from Art In General (NY) and a solo exhibition at Soloway (Brooklyn).

Heather Rowe is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York who received her MFA from Columbia University. She has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries including PS1/MoMA, Long Island City, New York; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; UMMA/University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany; D’Amelio Terras, New York; Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; Andrea Rosen, New York; White Columns, New York; and Artists Space, New York. In 2008, her work was featured in the Whitney Biennial. Rowe’s art occupies a space at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and architecture. Her constructions investigate the body’s relationship, both on a personal and a social level, to the spaces we inhabit and exist in. Recently, she presented her first large-scale solo outdoor project at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY.

Roger White is a painter and writer who splits his time between Middlebury, Vermont and Brooklyn, New York. He has recently exhibited his paintings at the Weatherspoon Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, The Suburban in Oak Park, Illinois, and Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York. His work is represented by the Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York. He received an MFA from Columbia University in 2000, and in 2007, he co-founded the art journal Paper Monument. He is currently at work on a book about contemporary art.