M i d - M a n h a t
t a n L i b r a r y
presents
An Artist Dialogue
Viviane Rombaldi Seppey and Kim Beck
Saturday October 17,
2009
2:30 p.m. on the 6th
floor
Mid-Manhattan Library
The
New York
Public Library
40
th
Street
and
5
th
Avenue
New York
,
NY
10016
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org
(directions)
Elevators access the
6th floor after 2p.m.
All events are FREE
and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
Kim Beck will join emerging artist Viviane Rombaldi
Seppey to converse about art and place as well as discussing her
Art in the
Windows
exhibition
Flying
Words
at Mid-Manhattan
Library.
Viviane Rombaldi Seppey
was born
in
Sion
,
Switzerland
. She began her art
practice in
Australia
where
she obtained her BFA and completed her MFA in 2004 in
Singapore
. She
is a polyvalent artist working in sculpture, painting and drawing. She has had
exhibitions in
Australia
,
Singapore
and
New York
. Her work has been selected for the
prestigious Sulman Prize at the
New
South
Wale
Art
Gallery
,
Sydney
and Sculpture by the Sea,
Sydney
,
Australia
.
In 2008-09 she was one of the recipients of the Lower East Side Printshop Key
Holder Residency, in
New York City
.
This past summer one of her projects was installed at The Carriage House of
Islip Art Museum in
Islip
,
New York
. She lives and works in
New York
.
Kim Beck
is an
artist who lives and works in
New York
and
Pittsburgh
, where she is Associate Professor of Art at
Carnegie
Mellon
University
.
Her work has been exhibited at many venues in the
U.
S.
including the
Walker
Art
Center
,
the Carnegie Museum of Art, Smack Mellon,
Socrates
Sculpture
Park
,
and
Hallwalls
Contemporary
Art
Center
. A 2008-09
resident at the Space Program with the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, she
has held other residencies at Yaddo, International Studio & Curatorial
Program, Cité Internationale des Arts,
Vermont
Studio
Center
, and VCCA. She has
received awards and fellowships from ARS Electronica, the Pollock-Krasner,
Thomas J. Watson and Heinz Foundations and her artist's book,
A Field Guide to Weeds
, was published
through the Printed Matter Emerging Artist Publishing Program and is in its
second edition. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and
BA from
Brandeis
University
.
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