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The New York Public Library presents An Art Book Series Event The Deconstructive Impulse Nancy Princenthal, Silvia Kolbowski, Laurie Simmons Wednesday February 16, 2011 6:00 p.m. Margaret Liebman Berger Forum Room 227 (2 nd Floor) Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 5th Avenue and 42nd Street New York, NY 10018 212-340-0871 www.nypl.org directions Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m. All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation. In the 1980s, many artists—women prominent among them—undertook an exploration of the imagery and ideology of the mass media. The Deconstructive Impulse is a survey of their work. One medium that proved especially fruitful for them was the artist’s book. In this event Nancy Princenthal, the book’s editor and contributor, and the acclaimed artists Silvia Kolbowski and Laurie Simmons explore this connection. The Deconstructive Impulse features a diverse group of North American women whose transformative and often provocative work deals with gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, and class-based inequities. Among the artists included in the book are Dara Birnbaum, The Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Mary Kelly, Silvia Kolbowski, Barbara Kruger, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, and others. Essays by leading critics discuss such topics as the importance of critical theory and sexual politics in the art world of the 1980s; how domesticity is represented in commercial media and the art that addresses it; the importance of psychoanalytic theory as a critical framework; and the sexualization of inanimate objects. Copies of The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power 1973-1991 are available for purchase and signing at the event. Nancy Princenthal is a New York-based writer and critic and former Senior Editor of Art in America . She has contributed to many other publications as well, including Art News, Artforum, Parkett, the Village Voice, and the New York Times. Princenthal has published a monograph on Hannah Wilke (Prestel, 2010), and contributed to books and exhibitions catalogues on the work of Doris Salcedo, Robert Mangold, Alfredo Jaar, Rona Pondick, and Petah Coyne, among others. She has taught at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Princeton University; Yale University; and RISD, and is currently on the faculties of New York University and the School of Visual Arts . Silvia Kolbowski, an artist based in New York, has a longstanding interest in the ways that cultural institutions frame the experience of art. Since her first solo exhibition, at Artists Space, New York in 1980, she has had one-person shows in museums and galleries around the world; in the past three years, her work has been seen at the International Center of Photography in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York, and the Villa Arson, in Nice. A member of the advisory board of the esteemed magazine October, she is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum, and the Walker Art Center, among many others. Laurie Simmons is an internationally recognized artist. Since the mid-70's, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins and occasionally people, to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. Her photographic based works are collected by many museums including in New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim as well as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center and the Hara Museum, Tokyo . In 2006 she produced and directed her first film titled "The Music of Regret", starring Meryl Streep, Adam Guettel and the Alvin Ailey 2 Dancers with cinematography by Ed Lachman. The film premiered at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and has been screened at many international museums and film festivals. Simmons was featured in Season 4 of the PBS series "Art 21: Art in the Twenty- First Century". She is currently preparing for her upcoming exhibition at Salon 94, NYC. Simmons lives and works in New York City and Cornwall, Connecticut with her husband, the painter Carroll Dunham and their two daughters Lena and Grace. In its second season the program series An Art Book, initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni, is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned and emerging artists, critics, curators, designers, historians and writers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~