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EVENT NEWS / March 23, 2009

Contemporary Artist Alexis Rockman to Give Free Public Lecture April at Boise State University

Artist Alexis Rockman will present a lecture about his work at 6 p.m. April 30 in the new Grand Ballroom in the Student Union Building at Boise State University. “Art Insight: Alexis Rockman” is free and open to the public.

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Rockman is a contemporary artist known for his paintings depicting the precarious relationship between man and nature; his works examine how our culture perceives and interacts with plants and animals, and the role culture plays in influencing the direction of natural history. For his futuristic landscapes, Rockman consults with biologists, zoologists and paleontologists and has done field work in remote locations such as the rainforests of Guyana.

Rockman was born in 1962 to the archaeologist Diana Wall and spent part of his childhood in a remote section of Peru, as well as hours exploring the American Museum of National History, where his mother worked for Margaret Mead. The exhibitions have been important to his work.

Rockman studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and received a bachelor’s of fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His recent and solo exhibitions include “Alexis Rockman” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washinton, D.C.; “Polar Dispatches” at the Portland Museum of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine; “The Weight of Air: Works on Paper” at the Rose Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass.; and “South” at Leo Koenig Inc. in New York City. His work is part of the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Brandeis, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Baltimore Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Rockman has been a contributor to many publications and has taught at Columbia and Harvard universities. He lives and works in New York City.

Rockman’s lecture is sponsored by the Boise State College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Art and the Visual Arts Center in partnership with the Boise Art Museum and the Boise City Department of Arts and history. For more information, contact Visual Arts Center Director Kirsten Furlong at 426-3994 or kfurlong@boisestate.edu, or visit http://artdept.boisestate.edu/VAC.

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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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