Kalup Linzy: Visiting Artist on Thursday, October 6th
Kalup Linzy Artist Lecuture Series: October 6th, 7pm.
Excerpts courtesy of Electronic Arts Intermix
Please join the Department of Art in welcoming visiting artist, Kalup Linzy, an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
When: Thursday Oct 6th, 7pm, Room 249
In a multidisciplinary practice that includes videos, performances and music, Kalup Linzy creates satirical narratives inspired by television soap operas, telenovelas and Hollywood melodramas. Bringing an irreverent approach to stereotypes of race, gender and sexuality, Linzy performs, most often in drag, in a series of memorable recurring roles. The artist serves as writer, director, cinematographer, editor, and actor—and, in a distinctive strategy, also voices and overdubs the dialogue of multiple characters. At once comic, raunchy and poignant, Linzy’s unique narrative videos fuse dramatic intensity with melodramatic irony.
Kalup Linzy was born in 1977 in Stuckey, Florida. He received a BFA in 2000 and an MFA in 2003, both from the University of South Florida in Tampa. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. After receiving his MFA degree he moved to New York within the same year. Now living within the city Linzy has used this opportunity to bring his unique style to the various audiences New York is known for.
In 2005, his participation in a group show at The Studio Museum in Harlem and a project at Taxter and Spengemann Gallery in Chelsea, led to a review in “The New York Times” by Holland Cotter that opened with the statement “A star is born…”. Linzy went on to receive numerous awards, recognition, and opportunities. He has worked and collaborated with many well known artists, celebrities, and fashion designers. Among them are James Franco, Chloe Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne,Liya Kebede, Leo Fitzpatrick, James Ransone, Dan Colen, Nate Lowman, Diane von Furstenberg, Proenza Schouler, Michael Stipe, Tunde Adebimpe and the band TV on the Radio. His work has been featured at numerous film festivals that include Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and Outfest. For more information on Kalup Linzy and his visit to our university, visit our event page.