Visiting Artist Lecture Series Spring 2025 | Robert F Agrella Art Gallery

Join us for our Spring visiting artist lecture series funded with support from the SRJC Foundation Logo

Caleb Cole lecture will be held via zoom on April 17th at 12:15pm.

Annie Lapin will be held viz Zoom on April 23rd at 12:15pm.

Ericka Walker lecture will be held on May 1st at 12:15pm, location TBD.

Artists

Ericka Walker

https://www.erickawalker.com/

A recording of this lecture can be found here

Ericka Walker works in the tradition of printmaking to make large scale contemporary prints that address concerns stemming from turn of the century propaganda images. Her work obliquely addresses foreign policy issues through a critical lens of history. Her prints address concerns of industry, agriculture, and mechanized warfare at a time when these concerns are ever more present.

Annie Lapin

https://www.annielapin.com/

Zoom Lecture April 23rd, 12:15pm - 1:15pm

A link to the Annie Lapin Lecture Recording

Annie Lapin examines the sublime as expressed through the tradition of painting and visual culture across time. Her compositions strategically untether signifiers of space from their meaning, mingling styles and languages from diverse sources, ranging from colorfield techniques to romantic landscape painting to Instagram images of sunsets. The final compositions, found through flow-of-conscious responses to both poured paint and layers of found imagery, attempt to reflect the strangeness of the mythos of the landscape as communicated through representations that in turn influence our experience of the world. The paintings attempt to capture the cognitive dissonance inherent in our experience of nature, from its loss to its false construction, and the contemporary psychology of grasping for the sublime in a rapidly changing and untethered world.

Annie Lapin (b. 1978, Washington, D.C) received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and her BA from Yale University in 2001.

Lapin’s work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greenboro, NC; and Zabludowicz Collection, London.

Caleb Cole

A recording of the Caleb Cole Lecture

Caleb Cole is a Midwest-born, Boston-based artist whose work addresses the opportunities and difficulties of queer belonging. Using collage, assemblage, photography, and video, they bring secondhand objects and media together for chance encounters, deliberately placing materials from different time periods into conversation with one another as a means of thinking about a lineage of queer culture while resisting a singular progressive genealogy. Caleb has received an Artadia Finalist Award, Hearst 8x10 Biennial Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships, Magenta Flash Forward Foundation Fellowships, and Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist awards, among other distinctions. Caleb exhibits regularly at a variety of national venues and has held solo shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, among others. Their work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Newport Art Museum, Davis Art Museum, Brown University Art Museum, and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art. Caleb currently teaches at Boston College and Lesley University.