the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Monica Majoli
object relations
This lecture took place on March 22nd, 2010 at 6:30 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union
Lecture introduction
Themes of identity, projection, attachment and temporality through the transgendered object have informed numerous bodies of Monica Majoli’s work, together with decisive shifts in materiality. The artist will discuss issues underlying her painting process, such as repetition, performativity and endurance, as she considers the conceptual and affective themes informing her practice. Intersubjectivity as enacted by triangulation with a voyeuristic viewer and the documentary sexual image will also be examined in depth.
About Monica Majoli
Monica Majoli, Assistant Professor of Studio Art at UC Irvine, is represented by Gagosian Gallery and Air de Paris Gallery and has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions. Highlights from her exhibition record include Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009); Everywhere: Sexual Diversity Policies in Art, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea; Spain (2009); Eden’s Edge: 15 L.A. Artists, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2007); Into Me/Out of Me, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2006); Supereal, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2002); LA Post-Cool, San Jose Museum of Art (2002); Scene of the Crime, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (1997); and In a Different Light, University Art Museum Berkeley (1995). Her work was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and also included in the 2006 Berlin Biennial of Contemporary Art at KW Institute of Contemporary Art. Her work is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.