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ArtTalks, residency schedules, and more<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Course syllabi, artist mentor info, and more<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Program newsletters, artist lectures, and more<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nJune 2026 Residency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n
Residency Thematic: “Dislocation”<\/h5>\n\n\n\nArtTALKS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n June 22 – Visiting Faculty RJ Messineo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nJune 23 – Visiting Faculty Patrice Aphrodite Helmar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nJune 24 – Josephine Halvorson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nJune 26 – Ian Alteveer<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nArt Talks Speaker Bios<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
RJ Messineo <\/strong>makes paintings involving observation and abstraction. Messineo engages a wide and sometimes incongruous range of scale relationships, mark-making, and compositional structures to make the paintings, from expressionist gesture, to process-based systems and chance encounters.\u00a0Messineo is represented by CANADA, New York, NY, and Mor\u00e1n Mor\u00e1n, Los Angeles and has exhibited at venues such as: Pace Gallery, James Cohan Gallery, Thomas Erben Gallery, all in New York, NY; Ceysson & B\u00e9n\u00e9ti\u00e8re, Koerich, Luxembourg; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMessineo will be a visiting faculty for the\u00a0June 2026 residency at Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Patrice Aphrodite Helmar<\/strong> is an artist who was born in Juneau, Alaska. They worked in their father’s small-town camera shop and darkroom growing up and they continue to work in photography. Helmar’s work has been shown at PARTICIPANT INC; the Jewish Museum; Ortega Y Gasset Projects; Gaa Gallery; the National Museum of Iceland; and other spaces. Helmar’s multidisciplinary work is concerned with issues of labor, class, queerness, and the politics of representation. They have held faculty positions at Harvard University, Columbia University, Fordham University, and Pratt Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHelmar will be a visiting faculty for the\u00a0June 2026 residency at Clark.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Josephine Halvorson<\/strong> makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking.\u00a0Halvorson\u2019s work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. She has presented work internationally at such institutions as the Storm King Art Center; the ICA Boston; and the Havana Biennale. Halvorson was the longtime Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University and will be the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in Painting\/Printmaking at Yale beginning this fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ian Alteveer<\/strong> is the Beal Family Chair, Department of Contemporary Art, at the MFA Boston, a position he has held since 2023. Previously he was curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Met in NY, curating projects by artists including Cecily Brown, Vija Celmins, David Hockney, Marisa Merz, and Kerry James Marshall. Alteveer also serves on the board of Artadia in NY, and on the board of trustees of Anderson Ranch Art Center in Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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