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 .