Clifford Owens | Artist Talk 9/23/09 @6:30PM at Purchase College SUNY | Free

SCHOOL OF ART+DESIGN
PURCHASE COLLEGE SUNY

Visiting Artist Talk
by Clifford Owens

Wednesday, September 23rd
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Visual Arts Bldg. RM 1016

Owens is best known for provocative performances that frequently require audience interaction. Within these works, shifts of power and perspective are at play. In his Studio Visits series, Owens engages visiting artists or arts professionals in one-on-one acts relating to the visitor’s work.

Clifford Owens' art has appeared in numerous group exhibitions including Performa05, New York, NY; Freestyle and Quid Pro Quo at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Greater New York 2005, P.S.1, Queens, New York; Influence, Anxiety, Gratitude, List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA. Owens studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mason Gross School of Visual Art Rutgers University, and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He was an artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem in 2005-06 and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004. Grants and fellowships include Art Matters, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Lambent Foundation, and the Rutgers University Ralph Bunche Graduate Fellowship. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1971, and he lives and works in Queens, New York.

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Image and Info provided by School of Art+Design MFA Program. Special Acknowledgment: Tom Sarver