The University of the Arts Sculpture Program
Welcomes Artist Allan McCollum
Guest Lecturer, July 6, 2005
CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall,
320 S Broad Street,
Noon-1 p.m.
For more information call 215-717-6489.

PHILADELPHIA (June 20, 2005) - Allan McCollum was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York. He has spent over thirty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on collaborations with small community historical society museums in different parts of the world. His first solo exhibition was in 1971, and his first New York showing was in an exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1972. He moved to New York in 1975, and in the late seventies he became especially well known for his series, Surrogate Paintings.

McCollum has had over 100 solo exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Lille, France (1998); the Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1995-96); the Serpentine Gallery, London (1990); the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden (1990); IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain (1990); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (1989), and Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1988). He has produced public art projects in the United States and Europe, and his works are held in nearly seventy major art museum collections worldwide

A number of interesting writers have published texts on Allan McCollum's work, including Rosalind Krauss, Craig Owens, Hal Foster, Anne Rorimer, Lynne Cooke, Lars Nittve, Thomas Lawson, Catherine Quéloz, Helen Molesworth, Johannes Meinhardt, Claude Gintz, Suzi Gablik, Nicolas Bourriaud, and Rhea Anastas. McCollum has occasionally interviewed and written essays on fellow artists for books and catalogs, including Matt Mullican, Allen Ruppersberg, and Andrea Zittel. A website with information on the artist is maintained here allanmcnyc.

The Sculpture Program at the University begins with a balanced exposure to the formal, technical, and intellectual aspects of sculpture, exploring both the traditional and the most innovative aspects of the art

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