Nov
13
Lectures and Workshops

Grad Art Seminar: Blake Rayne

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

7:30 pm Add to Calendar

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Pasadena, California 91103
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Blake Rayne, born in Lewes, Delaware in 1969, lives and works in New York. He was educated at the California Institute of the Arts, received a fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin (2010), and has taught at Columbia University’s School of Visual Arts. Rayne’s paintings are structured by the generative duplicity of words like script, folder, application, dissolve, and screen. These operative terms locate the work between structures of linguistic description and the history of reflexive material procedures. Rayne begins from an orientation that would consider the terms ‘painter’ and ‘painting’ as signs— that is, as fictions. They have no stable material definition, but rather are shaped by linguistic, institutional, and physical relations. Rayne’s mode of painting, irrevocably marked by conceptual art, context is constitutive. In September, 2018, he will mount an exhibition of new work, DOGSKULLDOGS, at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. A survey exhibition, Cabin of the Accused, was held at the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, in 2016-2017, and his paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, and the Portland Museum of Art.


The Graduate Art Seminar is a forum for graduate students and members of the ArtCenter community to enter into dialog with internationally recognized artists, critics, and art historians. The Seminar is a core component of ArtCenter's Graduate Art program. The Seminar is also free and open to the public.

ArtCenter's Graduate Art program is based on intensive studio practice and rigorous academic coursework. The program is distinguished by its low faculty-to-student ratio that provides students with the attention and feedback they need to refine and achieve their artistic goals. Faculty and students are artists working in all genres—film, video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and installation. A significant number of alumni have achieved national and international acclaim and often return to share their insights and expertise as visiting faculty and guest lecturers.