MFA Lecture Series: Thomas Lawson

September 29, 2010
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Lecture Forum
3001 S. Flower Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Thomas Lawson is Dean of the School of Art at CalArts. An artist with a diverse, project-driven output, he has exhibited paintings at MetroPictures in New York, Anthony Reynolds in London, David Kordansky Gallery and LA>Artforum, Flash Art, and Afterall, and an anthology of his writing, Mining for Gold, was published in 2005 by JRP/Ringier.

From 1979 until 1992 he, along with Susan Morgan, published and edited REAL LIFE Magazine, an irregular publication by and about younger artists interested in the relationship between art and life. An anthology of REAL LIFE Magazine, was published by Primary Information, NY, in 2007. He has also curated various exhibitions of younger artists for such venues as Artists Space and P.S.1 in New York and the Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles, and was a co-selector of the British Art Show in 1995. In addition to the Guggenheim Fellowship he has received three Artist Fellowships from the NEA, project support from Art Matters, Inc., and Visual Arts Projects, and a residency fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation.

Thomas Lawson, New World: Looking to the Future, 2008, oil on canvas, 72 x 84".