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February Gallery Talk at Dia: Molly Nesbit on Robert Smithson
Molly Nesbit, Independent Curator and Art History Professor at Vassar College, will talk about the work of Robert Smithson as part of Dia Art Foundation's series of free monthly Gallery Talks at Dia:Beacon. The series, which takes place in the museum's galleries on the last Saturday of every month, features onehour presentations given by curators, art historians, and writers on the work of the artists in Dia's collection.
Molly Nesbit teaches and writes on twentieth century art, film and photography. In addition to being a contributing editor of Artforum, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley and Barnard College, Columbia University, and received many awards, notably from the Guggenheim Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust.
Robert Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1938. In 1953. Smithson's first solo exhibition was in 1959, at the Artist's Gallery, New York. He began to produce what he considered his first mature works of writing and sculpture in 1964. Smithson used black basalt rocks and earth from the site surrounding the Great Salt Lake in Utah, to create the monumental Earthwork Spiral Jetty (1970), a coil 1,500 feet long and fifteen feet wide that stretches out counterclockwise into the translucent red water of the lake. Smithson died in a plane crash in Amarillo, Texas, in 1973, while working on Amarillo Ramp. Major retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York (1980), the Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia (1993), and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (1999). In 1999, Dia acquired his Spiral Jetty as a gift of his estate.
This talk will be presented on Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 1pm in the Riggio Galleries. Reservations are suggested; call 845-440-0100 ext 44.
Current hours at Dia:Beacon are 11am to 4pm, Friday through Monday (closed Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Admission to the museum is $10 general, $7 for students and seniors, and free for Dia members and children under 12.
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