MATRIX 30th Anniversary Events

Artists and Curator in Conversation: Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan with Constance Lewallen

June 22, 2008; 3:00 p.m.

Museum Theater

Continuing our series of public programs celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of MATRIX will be a conversation between former MATRIX artists Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan and former MATRIX Curator Constance Lewallen.

Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan showed strong photographic and photography-based work in their 1983 MATRIX 61 exhibition Newsroom. Sultan continues to work in photography and teaches in the Bay Area. Mandel, currently based in Massachusetts, makes innovative public art projects inspired by photography.

Originally hired as the museum’s second MATRIX curator (after Michael Auping), Constance Lewallen organized dozens of shows by then-emerging artists from 1980 through 1988. As senior curator of exhibitions at BAM from 1997 to 2007, she curated many large-scale traveling exhibitions, including major retrospectives of Joe Brainard, Paul Kos, Ant Farm, and Bruce Nauman.