Contact
Elaine O'Brien, Ph.D.
Professor of modern
and contemporary
art history and criticism
Department of Art
College of Arts and Letters
Curriculum Vita
Office: 190 Kadema
Hours: Tu: 3-5; Th 3-4
Phone: (916) 278:5704
Email: eobrien@csus.edu
Mailing address:
Sacramento State University
6000 J Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6061
Professor O'Brien offers a survey of early modern to contemporary art
for general education students as well as a sequence of undergraduate
and graduate courses in art
theory and criticism, and the history of the art and visual
culture of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries
with a focus on the art of the Americas and contemporary global
culture. She has edited a volume on non-Western modern art and lectures widely on subjects in her area of expertise. |
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Wei Na, still from Temple, digital film, on view in
Hanging in the Balance:Ten Emerging Chinese Artists
at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento
2/28-3/1/2012
Mark Bradford at SFMoMA
February 18-June 17, 2012
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See complete list of Art department exhibitions and events here.
Artist Christopher Taggart Lecture: February 11 at 3 pm at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento
The Professions of Art lecture series Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8 pm, Kadema 145
-March 13: Liv Moe (Director, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento)
-April 10: Craig Watson (Director, California Council for the Arts)
-May 8: Lial Jones (Director, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento )
April 3 at 6:30pm in Kadema 145: Lecture by Jenny Stark following her exhibition, In-Between Place: Jenny Stark’s Central California, in the Else Gallery 3/9-29 (gallery closed 3/19-23 during Spring Break).
Thursday, April 19, 6pm Kadema 145: Art in the Twenty-First Century (season 6) 2012 screenings: two episodes: Change and History. Watch preview clips here
Saturday afternoon, April 21: FOA Lecture by Sylvester Ogbechie, Professor of Modern & Contemporary African Art History, UC Santa Barbara.
Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento:
Hanging in the Balance: Ten Emerging Chinese Artists
Curated by Professor Qin Jian of Xiamen University, Fujian, China
February 28- April 1
- March 8 at 7pm. Screening of documentary, Project 798: New Art in China (2010)
- March 22, 7 pm: Lecture, “New Art from a New China,” by Katharine Burnett, Professor of Chinese Art History, UC Davis,
Body Stories: Sandra Davis and Koo Kyung Sook April 10- May 13
- Saturday, April 28 at 3pm: Doug Rice and Stephanie Sauer discuss their collaboration, Dream Memoirs of a Fabulist
- Thursday, May 3 at 7pm: Lecture by Koo Kyung Sook
- Saturday, May 5 at 6pm: Lecture by Sandra Davis |
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