Lecture Series at Silvermine

Masks as a Portal to the World

Suzanne Benton

Sunday                    4pm                        $10 Members, $12 Non-Members

October 17, 2010

Course Code: SBLECTSUN4PM101710

Suzanne Benton at the Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, created this film/lecture from the 2009 illustrated talk.  Suzanne will discuss her life’s work using masks and performance to give voice to women, children and men throughout the world. The artist will perform a mask tale and take part in question and answer dialogue with the audience at the completion of the film.

Suzanne Benton is a native New Yorker who has shared her many-faceted art for over 30 years and in 29 countries. A trans-centralist and feminist pioneer based in the States, her venues stretch from NYC to villages in remote parts of Africa, India and Nepal and to philosophy and education portals for Calcutta to Cambridge. Beyond exhibiting widely (150 solo shows and representation in museum and private collections worldwide), she is highly recognized as a metal mast maker and mask performance artist, lecturer and workshop leader. Author of “The Art of Welded Sculpture”.

The Culture, Science and Art of Color

David Dunlop

Sunday                    4:30pm                   $10 Members, $12 Non-Members

October 24, 2010

Course Code: DDLECTSUN430PM102410

What do colors mean in paintings, in other cultures, in history? How do we perceive color? How do we use it, mix it, find it, and make it? What are its effects on romance, on lighting your living room or kitchen, or suggesting time of day or direction or mood in a painting, on a garment, or on a wall? What were the color theories of the Romans, the Persians, the Ancient Chinese, the Impressionists, the Renaissance, the Modernists, and today’s contemporary designers and artists?

Da Vinci, the first Neuro-Scientist

David Dunlop

Sunday                    4:30pm                    $10 Members, $12 Non-Members

February 6, 2011    

Course Code: DDLECTSUN430PM020611

How did Leonardo’s discoveries in the art of painting and the biology of vision predict and alter the future of art? What were his methods and materials? How did later artists adopt his theories on color and perspective and the depiction of light, motion and form? How did he use his scientific observations to re-invent the way we look at and make pictures? What is his influence on artists practicing today? What observations have contemporary artists neglected?