Spring 2004 Schedule

		Matthew Ritchie March 30 Matthew Ritchie's paintings, sculptures, murals, light-walls, and web-based projects explore the nature of perception and the many ways in which we try to describe and understand the universe. Ritchie draws upon sources as disparate as mathematics, comic books, biblical stories, video games, and information technology to create a promiscuous and evolving body of work whose central purpose is to explore how we model our own consciousness.
		Rineke Dijkstra April 13 Over the last ten years, Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra has acquired a reputation as one of the most well respected photographers. Her work evokes an extraordinary pathos, revealing a certain empathy for its subject. Dijkstra began her photographic career freelancing for such publications as Elle, Avenue, and Elegance in Europe. Since then, she has developed a unique, candid style of portraiture influenced by formal classicism and layered with intense psychological depth. Dijkstra's color photographs and videos employ natural light and minimal backgrounds, revealing a raw immediacy and an almost clinical attention to detail.
		Paul McCarthy April 27 Paul McCarthy has become infamous over the past three decades for his no-holds-barred installations, videos, sculptures, body-art performances, and photographs. Much of the artist's oeuvre incorporates household materials, a trademark use of the grotesque, and kitschy icons. McCarthy has often formulated an equation between architecture, the human body, and the human psyche. Recently, he has been included in 2004's Public Art Fund Projects in Central Park--A collaboration with the Whitney Biennial (2004). McCarthy's Daddies Bighead (2003), sited at Lasker Rink in the northern end of the park, is a 50-foot-tall pink inflatable sculpture. With bulging eyes, a carrot-shaped nose, and several protruding irregularities, Daddies Bighead is at once goofy and awful--a roadside attraction gone bizarrely awry.

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