Robert Irwin lecture
Monday 30 April, 2012
6:30 - 8pm, $0/Rsvp
Columbia University
Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway
Columbia University School of the Arts Public Programs and the Visual Arts Program present an evening with painter and installation artist Robert Irwin. The artist talk, titled “On the Nature of Abstraction,†is held in conjunction with an exhibition of Irwin’s new work at The Pace Gallery on East 57th Street. The exhibition “Robert Irwin: Crossing the i’s and Dotting the t’s†is up from April 26-June 23.
For more than six decades, Irwin’s innovative works have led him to explore perception as the fundamental issue of art. Irwin began his career as a painter in the 1950s and became the pioneer of the L.A.-based “Light and Space†movement in the 1960s. Irwin’s ongoing considerations of the nature of light and space led him to produce complex environmental paintings and, in turn, non-object based environments and installations. By the early 1970s he was a leader among the generation of artists to define the Light and Space movement, which continues to inform the complex works he produces today. In addition to site-specific installations, Irwin’s practice has also included extensive theoretical writing and landscape design.
For more than six decades, Irwin’s innovative works have led him to explore perception as the fundamental issue of art. Irwin began his career as a painter in the 1950s and became the pioneer of the L.A.-based “Light and Space†movement in the 1960s. Irwin’s ongoing considerations of the nature of light and space led him to produce complex environmental paintings and, in turn, non-object based environments and installations. By the early 1970s he was a leader among the generation of artists to define the Light and Space movement, which continues to inform the complex works he produces today. In addition to site-specific installations, Irwin’s practice has also included extensive theoretical writing and landscape design.