Ann Philbin Interviews Charles Ray at Anderson Ranch
The Hammer Museum Director interviews Department of Art Professor Emeritus
No need to worry if you missed the conversation between Hammer Museum Director Ann Philbin and Department of Art Professor Emeritus Charles Ray at Anderson Ranch this summer. BlouinArtInfo has the video.
"In August, Ann Philbin, director of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, sat down with venerable artist Charles Ray as part of Anderson Ranch Arts Center’s Summer Series of talks.
“As Calvin Tompkins said in his article in the New Yorker, ‘[Charles Ray] is famous, but little known,’” said Philbin. “It’s by choice and design, of course, but it’s one of the reasons why talks like this are such an amazing opportunity for all of us.” Ray, talking candidly and off the cuff (and with a broken scapula), took the opportunity to look back on his career and his relationship to sculpture as a medium.
Ray, who lives in Los Angeles, is one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century. He has exhibited at Documenta IX (1992), at the Venice Biennale in 1993 and 2003, and at five Whitney Biennials. His best-known works include a giant replica of a red toy fire truck, which he installed outside the Whitney Biennial in 1993 and outside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2008; a fiberglass cast of a crashed Pontiac Grand Am; and uncanny sculptures of people, such as “Family Romance” (1993), his lifelike depiction of a nuclear family, all nude and standing at the same height."— Taylor Dafoe, September 7, 2016
Read the full article and watch the video at the BlouinArtInfo website.