RCW
Lecture Series October
19th @ 7 pm
Jakki
Spicer, Art Critic for the East Bay Express
"The Language of Art: Enjoyment, Knowledge,
and the Painted Word"
"The
Painted Word," K Gallery's current show, takes its title
from Tom Wolfe's 1975 essay, in which he inveighs against the
disappearance of the visual pleasure of art into the stifling
verbosity of Art Theory. Jakki Spicer looks at the works in
this
group show as examples of what Wolfe forgets--that language
can also
be pleasure, that looking and thinking are not mutually exclusive.
BIO
Jakki Spicer grew up in the
Bay Area, but left for other shores when she was eighteen. She
has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Paris, and Minneapolis,
where she received her doctorate in Cultural Studies and Comparative
Literature from the University of Minnesota in 2006. Her dissertation,
titled “Modern Texts: Autobiography and the Rise of the
Individual,” explored the conjunction between modernity
and the desire to read and write autobiographical texts.
Jakki has been writing arts
criticism since 2000, covering film, visual art, theater and
books. Her reviews and essays have been published in Cultural
Critique, Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts,
Rain Taxi, Object Magazine, mnartists.org, artUS, and most recently
East Bay Express and Artweek, where she is focusing on covering
local Bay Area artists and galleries. She is also co-editor
of The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road,
which was recently published by University of Minnesota Press.
She currently lives in Alameda with
her husband and 18 month old daughter. Oh, and two cats.
Partial
list of Publications:
On-going
“On the Wall”: Visual Art Reviews
East Bay Express, weekly from October 2006-Present;
* reviews can be accessed here
2007
The
Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road
co-editor, forthcoming in August of 2007 from the University
of Minnesota Press
“What Are You Doing Tonight?”
co-written introduction to Dreams of Interpretation/The Interpretation
of Dreams
“The Author is Dead, Long Live the Author: Autobiography
and the Fantasy of the Individual”
Criticism*:
A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, vol. 47, iss. 3
* Accessed through Project
MUSE
* “Monica Johnson’s ‘Stick ‘Em Up, Stay
Down, Grow Up!’ at Jack Fischer Gallery,” Artweek,
September 2007
* “‘Urban Shelter’ Multi-Media Group Show
at Limn Gallery,” Artweek, October 2007
* “Kate Eric’s ‘Stories for Bad Children’
at Frey Norris Gallery,” Artweek, forthcoming in November
2007
2005
“To Think with the Body: Memorials, Memory, and History’s
Affect”
RainTaxi, refereed national book review and arts journal, Summer
2005
“Look, Don’t Think: Review of Susan Sontag’s
Regarding the Pain of Others and National Geographic/Library
of Congress’s Voices of War”
RainTaxi, Spring 2005
2004
Review of Spectral Evidence by Ulrich Baer
Cultural
Critique #57* Spring 2004
* Accessed via Project MUSE
Review of The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography,
1960-1983, Walker Art Museum
ArtUS, refereed national journal of art news and art reviews,
January-February 2004
2003
"Open Forum: Encampment" & "Focus Group"
at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN
ArtUS, November-December 2003
Review of
Carmen Funebre
mnartists.org, refereed on-line journal of arts criticism, September
2003
* other reviews for mnartists.org can be accessed here
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