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Penelope Umbrico - Guest Lecture

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Studio Art

Please join the Studio Art Department for a lecture with photographer Penelope Umbrico. Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 4:45 P.M. Loew Auditorium

  • Suns Umbrico

    541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 1/23/06, 2006, Detail of 2000 machine c-prints, each 4 x 6 in

  • sun screen scan umbrico

    Sun/Screen/Scan, 2018, 192 archival ink-jet prints, variable dimensions, installation at The New York Public Library, New York, 2018

Penelope Umbrico offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images.

Umbrico works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”

She finds these moments in the pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures; and websites like Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. Identifying image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—brings the farcical, surreal nature of consumerism to new light.
 
Penelope Umbrico (born in Philadelphia, 1957) graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has participated extensively in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Umbrico is core faculty in the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Program. Selected public collections include the Guggenheim Museum (NY), International Center of Photography (NY), McNay Museum of Art (TX), Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), Museum of Contemporary Photography (IL), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Museum of Modern Art (NY), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), among others. She lives in New York City.