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Fall visiting artists announced

September 14, 1998

Visitors bearing artistic and critical insights will participate in a UW–Madison Department of Art lecture series beginning this week.

The fall semester will bring five visiting artists to campus. They are:

  • Donald Lipski, sculptor and UW–Madison alumnus (B.A., 1970), is a veteran of the prestigious Whitney Biennial exhibition in New York (1991). Lipski has exhibited at some of the world’s leading museums and galleries, including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Galleria Il Ponte and the Panza Collection in Italy, Paris’ Galeria Lelong, the Edward Totah Gallery in London and more. Lipski will present a lecture on his work Monday at 5:45 p.m. in 204 Educational Sciences building.
  • Patrick Dougherty specializes in large-scale temporary installations. Based in Chapel Hill, N.C., Dougherty has created installations in Denmark, England, Japan, Mexico, Italy and the United States. On campus Oct. 1-20, Dougherty will work with UW–Madison art students to produce a new work for Bascom Hill as part of the university’s sesquicentennial celebration. He will lecture about the project Oct. 5 at 5:30 p.m. in L140 Elvehjem Museum.
  • Syd Carpenter, ceramic art, is on Swarthmore College’s art faculty. She has exhibited in more than 50 galleries and museums including the Dallas African- American Museum, the Fundacal Gregorio D’Matos in Brazil, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Charlottenborg Museum in Denmark and more. She will lecture Oct. 14 at 5:30 p.m. in L130 Elvehjem.
  • Issac Victor Kerlow, computer graphic artist, specializes in interactive multimedia, computer-assisted painting and printmaking, and 3-D animation. Born in Mexico City, Kerlow currently is director of creative services at Disney Interactive in Buena Vista, Calif. There, he works with some of the most advanced animation and interactive multimedia currently under research and production. Kerlow will lecture about his work Oct. 16 at 11:30 a.m. in 204 Educational Sciences.
  • Fritz Gottschalk, computer design, is founder of the famous Gottschalk and Ash Design Firm. With offices in Toronto, Milan and Zurich, the company’s client list include the Olympic Games, Canadian Railway, Montreal Metro, New York Stock Exchange, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Federal Department of Justice and Police in Bern, Switzerland and others. Gottschalk and Ash have won numerous design awards and have become international leaders in corporate identification design. Gottschalk will discuss his work Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. in L130 Elvehjem.

According to lecture coordinator Thomas Loeser, UW–Madison associate professor of art, the guest artists have been chosen to broaden the artistic horizons of UW–Madison and larger communities.

“This year will mark the 30th anniversary of our Visiting Artists/Critics Program. Over the years we have brought some of the art world’s most prominent artists, critics and scholars to campus. The program gives the UW–Madison an important position in the art world as a leading contemporary institution,” he says.

All lectures will be free. For information, contact Loeser, 262-0611.