Bruce Myren, Photographer, April 12, 4:30pm
Posted on Sunday, April 3rd, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Artist and Photographer, Bruce Myren Lecture, Tuesday, April 12, 4:30 pm in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, Willard Hall, Kansas State University
MANHATTAN —Kansas State University Department of Art will present a lecture by nationally recognized artist and photographer Bruce Myren, Tuesday, April 12, 4:30 pm in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, Department of Art, Willard Hall on Kansas State University campus.
Admission is free and open to the public.
- “Hiding, I watched them have sex, he saw me, she didn’t,” from the series “Markers: Memory,” 16 x 60 inches 2007/2008 archival inkjet print
Bruce Myren is an artist and photographer based in Cambridge, MA. He holds a BFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and earned his MFA in studio art from the University of Connecticut, Storrs in 2009. Shown nationally, Myren has been included in group exhibitions at the Houston Center of Photography, TX; The Gallery Project, MI; and the William Benton Museum of Art, CT, among others. His latest solo exhibitions include showings at the Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE; the Special Collections Gallery of the Jones Library, Amherst, MA; the Danforth Museum of Art, MA; and Gallery Kayafas, MA, where he is represented. The current Northeast Regional Chair of the Society for Photographic Education, Myren has taught at the University of Connecticut, the New England Institute of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
In his work, Myren investigates issues of place and space via the exploration and employment of various locative systems. He is most interested in how macro systems relate to micro experiences of land and landscape. Myren’s recent series include a photographic investigation of the Fortieth Parallel of latitude; a piece documenting the view from every place he has lived to where he lives now; and a study via photographs, audio, and video of the poet Robert Francis’s one-person house in the woods of Amherst, MA.
This event is a part of the Kansas State University Department of Art Visiting Artists Series for the 2010-2011 Season.
The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.
Funded in part by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee
