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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

April 8 - April 8, 2013

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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SFAI Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture with Linda Besemer Linda Besemer, Red-Purple Slab, 2009, Cast Acrylic Paint Sculpted, 12"x 9"x 4", Courtesy of the artist
This event is free and open to the public but advance registration is recommended. Without canvas or traditional support, Linda Besemer explores the plasticity and physicality of painting. Spilling from aluminum rods and cleats affixed to gallery walls are dried sheets of two-sided patterned acrylic paint. Referencing critical theory, feminism, minimalism, decoration, and finish fetish, her paintings question the forms and underlying signifying practices of modernism, abstraction, and two-dimensional illusion. She is a Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow at SFAI. Besemer's paintings have been featured in numerous museums, most notably: The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Contemporary Art, SITE Sante Fe, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Albright-Knox Museum, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The San Diego Museum of Art, The South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, The Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, Grand Arts, Kansas City, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Weatherspoon Museum of Art, The Dayton Museum of Art, and The Palm Beach ICA. She is also exhibiting internationally in Europe, Asia, and South America. She is a recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, The George and Eliza Howard Foundation Grant in Painting, The Chuck Close Rome Prize in Painting from the American Academy in Rome, and The Anonymous Was A Woman Grant. Besemer teaches painting and drawing at Occidental College. She also taught academic courses in the Gender Studies Department and served as the Chair of both the departments of Art History and Visual Arts and Gender Studies. Additionally, Besemer was awarded The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award for faculty achievement and she was granted an endowed professorship becoming The James Irvine Distinguished Professor of the Arts.