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Acclaimed
Photographer To Lecture At U.Va. Oct. 20
October 7, 2003 --
WHO: Andrea Modica
WHAT:
Lecture on her photography work
WHEN:
Monday, Oct. 20, 7 p.m.
WHERE:
Campbell Hall, Room 158
In
her work, photographer Andrea Modica blurs the lines between
fact and fiction. Her compositions and
use of shifting focus
draw in the viewer, creating open-ended narratives.
Modica
received an M.F.A. from Yale School of Art in 1985. She was
a professor of art for 13 years in upstate
New
York before
moving to Colorado.
Modica
has received numerous grants including a 1994 Guggenheim Arts
Fellowship and a 1990 Fulbright-Hays
Research Grant.
Her platinum prints are included in the permanent collections
of
the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art
in New York City, the National Museum of Art and the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum
of Art and the
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.
Modica's
photographs have been published extensively and she has produced
four monographs: “Minor
League,” “Treadwell,” “Human
Being” and “Real Indians.”
For
details, call the McIntire Department of Art at (434) 924-6123. Contact:
Jane Ford, (434) 924-4298 |