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ABELES AND BOROSON ARE HIXSON-LIED VISITING ARTISTS
Lee Boroson, "Lucky Storm," 2005. Abeles will present a free public lecture on Wednesday, March 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery auditorium. An open session with Abeles will also be held on Thursday, March 22 in the Richards Hall Sculpture Room (Room 24) at 2 p.m., which is also open to the public.
Kim Abeles, "Crown of Thorns," 2002. Abeles is an artist who crosses disciplines and media to explore and map the urban environment and chronicle broad social issues. The Smog Collector series brought her work to national and international attention in the art world, and mainstream sources such as Newsweek and Dan Rather. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the United States Information Agency, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and is archived in the library collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt Publication Design Collection of the Smithsonian.
Boroson lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has created installations and shown his work in numerous solo exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in New York, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York, among others. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, and he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the State University of New York in New Paltz.
The Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist series is made possible by a grant from the Hixson-Lied Endowment. Each artist's visit is organized in ways to facilitate interaction between the visiting artists and Department of Art and Art History faculty and students, as well as opportunities for the visiting artists to interact with members of the wider campus and Lincoln communities.
