Influential contemporary artist speaks at Presidential Lectureship
Janel Shoun |
Lipscomb University’s annual Presidential Lectureship for Art and Art History presents Richard Tuttle, a prolific American postminimalist artist who has created art since the 1960s. Tuttle will present a free lecture at 7 p.m., Monday, May 4, in the Shamblin Theatre on the Lipscomb campus.
Tuttle’s work emphasizes diminutive scale, subverting the monumental scale of modernist sculptural practice and instead creating small objects in humble materials such as paper, string, cloth, wire and twigs.
“We are honored to have Richard Tuttle on campus for his first lecture in Nashville,” said Laura Lake Smith, chair of the art department at Lipscomb University. “He is one of the most premiere artists in contemporary times. He has had a major influence on the concept of modern art.”
Tuttle’s work can be found in nearly 50 major public collections worldwide, including the Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée nationale d’art moderne, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Nearly three hundred solo exhibitions of Tuttle’s work have been mounted since 1965 and his work has been included in hundreds of group exhibitions. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture.
He has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and many international venues. In 2005, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art organized a Tuttle retrospective.
Others who have spoken at the Presidential Lectureship for Art and Art History are art historian James Elkins, photographer Nancy Skolos, graphic designer Kim Elam, author and art critic Donald Kuspit and sculptor John Ruppert.
Click here to learn more about one of Tuttle's latest exhibitions: Walking on Air.
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