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Symposium
Artists Forum presents:
Making Things, Moving Places:
The Work of artist Glen Seator
Saturday, September 28, 2002
8:45 a.m6:00 p.m.
Harold M. Williams Auditorium
About the Symposium
Making Things, Moving Places is the first event in the Artists
Forum series sponsored by the Getty Research Institute and launched
this year in conjunction with the Research Institutes 200203
theme of Biography. Artists Forum provides an
opportunity to survey the work of noted contemporary visual artists
and to examine the work in relationship to the artists creative
history. This symposium brings together an international roster
of distinguished scholars and practitioners in the fields of art
and architecture to examine a full decade (19902001) of artist
Glen Seators work realized in the United States and Europe.
The panel of speakers, moderated by Thomas Crow, director of the
Getty Research Institute, will consider the significant implications
of work that shifts the very terms of such diverse historical concerns
as transportability, site-specificity, replication, process, representation,
landscape, monumentality, and the everyday occurrence. The symposium
ends in discussion with the artist as a first-voice interpretation
of the process, objects, and meaning of his work.
About the Artist
In the early 1990s Glen Seators visionary work brought new
focus to the use of architecture as a subject and material of contemporary
sculptural practice. From procedural works enacted in private and
public locations, to renowned full-scale architectural reconstructions,
to recent photographic works, Seators developing oeuvre marks
a renewed concern for the physical object and the demands of making,
maintaining, and viewing.
Seator has realized major works at galleries and museums in the
United States and Europe, and his work is represented in the permanent
collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum. He has received numerous awards and fellowships,
including from the Pollack Krasner Foundation, Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation, Soros Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. In 2000-01 he was a Getty artist in residence working
under the Getty Research Institutes theme of Reproductions
and Originals.
Symposium Program