— Apr 18, 02:22 PM — 

Adam McEwen Lecture

April 23
Rm 102 12:30

Adam McEwen is an English artist and curator currently based in New York City. He is known for manipulating time, space, images and language to create alternately convincing and arcane effects. McEwen has even been known to apply fabric over the outside windows of galleries he is showing in, effectively changing the space and work’s relationship to light.

McEwen works across mediums, often creating elaborate gallery installations. In one such installation, he plotted the bombing patterns of US planes over Germany during WWII with wads of chewing gum. In another installation curated by McEwen in 2005, entitled Interstate, examined the US as home of the interstate highway, with what the New York Times called “unmistakable discontent.” The Times review continues, “The prevailing tactic, and larger theme, is subversive traffic between different realms—bodily, artistic, topographical or political.” The Village Voice said of the same exhibition, “Interstate ably cruises the psychic highways of America, portraying an enervated, deluded, oblivious realm.”

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