A public talk by Lynne Cooke as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series
5:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Room 102, Frederic Lasserre Building
6333 Memorial Road, University of British Columbia
ahva.ubc.ca
Beginning in Europe in the early twentieth century, intersections between textile and abstract art profoundly shaped Modernist art and art history. The twenty-first century has witnessed an efflorescence in the globalized contemporary art world of practices that engage textile as subject, material and/or technology. Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, the exhibition Cooke curated that is currently on view at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, debuted at LACMA in fall 2023. Taking this project as its subject, Cooke’s talk will foreground a curatorial practice that weighs object-based, materialist design and display strategies relative to normative methodologies privileging archival research and discursive framing.
Lynne Cooke is senior curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. From 2012 to 2014, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Prior to that, she served as chief curator and deputy director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid from 2008 to 2012 and as curator at Dia Art Foundation from 1991 to 2008. In 1991, Cooke co-curated the Carnegie International, and has since helmed numerous major shows, including the 10th Biennale of Sydney (1996), Rosemarie Trockel: Cosmos (2012), and Outliers and American Vanguard Art (2018). Her numerous publications include texts on Agnes Martin, Francis Alys, Zoe Leonard, James Castle, and Bridget Riley.
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).
Image: Ann Hamilton, (side by side.coats), 2018/2023. Courtesy of the artist.
