Abelardo Morell lecture in San Francisco

Just learned that Abelardo Morell will be giving a lecture at the San
Francisco Art Institute next week.

http://www.sfai-art.com/database/this_Week_at_SFAI_detail.asp?id_event=614

A LECTURE BY ABELARDO MORELL, photographer

May 6, 2002
7:30 pm

SFAI Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA

Innovative Cuban-American photographer Abelardo Morell will speak
about work that involves turning rooms into giant camera obscuras
during a lecture presented in partnership with the SF Camerawork and
Photo Alliance.

After concentrating on street photography for several years, Morell
gained notoriety in the mid-1980s for turning domestic spaces into large
camera obscuras. Morell's photographs capture the spaces while the
inverted landscape of the room's exterior is projected onto its walls.
The artist continues to test the limits of this new method, and has
photographed well-known landmarks including New York City's Times Square
and Wyoming's Grand Tetons Mountains. While in town, Morell will create
his first San Francisco image.

The lecture is free to the public.

Morell has participated in group exhibitions and solo shows from New
York to Tokyo. His work is included in the permanent collections of
The Museum of Modern Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York);
The Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
and many other institutions.

Morell's photographs are featured in numerous books, among them Abelardo
Morell and the Camera Eye; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Abelardo
Morell: Face to Face; Photographs at the Gardner Museum; and A Camera
in a Room: Photographs by Abelardo Morell, from the series Photographers
at Work: A Smithsonian Series.

Morell has received prestigious grants from the Cintas Foundation and
the Guggenheim Foundation, has taught at the Massachusetts College of
Art and has held artist residencies at the Boston Athenaeum and the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Received on Mon Apr 29 20:28:01 2002