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Rauschenberg Gallery to Host Laurie Anderson for Next ArtSPEAK@FSW

Jan 21, 2015

The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida SouthWestern State College (FSW) will host experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson at 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 24 as part of the college’s continuing lecture series, ArtSPEAK@FSW.

Anderson, the wife of musician Lou Reed until his death in 2013, will discuss her current projects and recent work in the Rush Library Auditorium on FSW’s Thomas Edison (Lee) Campus. 

“A seminal figure in contemporary art and music, she has produced pioneering works that defy categorization and have blurred the boundaries of performance, theater, visual art and experimental music/sound,” said Jade Dellinger, director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at FSW.

Since the 1970’s, Anderson has published numerous books, produced videos for PBS and MTV, films including her feature-length Home of the Brave, radio pieces for National Public Radio and BBC, and original scores for dance, including her groundbreaking collaboration in the 1980’s on Set and Reset with choreographer Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg.

Appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA in 2002, her experience culminated in the 2004 touring solo performance, The End of the Moon. She received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in 2007 for her outstanding contribution to the arts. In 2008 she completed a two-year worldwide tour of her performance piece, Homeland, which was released as an album on Nonesuch Records in June 2010.   

Her work has appeared in major collections in New York City, Milan, Düsseldorf, Dublin, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.

Past ArtSPEAK@FSW lecturers have included cultural critic and writer Dave Hickey, sculptor Keith Edmier and musician Benjamin Patterson. For more information about ArtSPEAK@FSW or future fine art exhibitions, visit www.RauschenbergGallery.com.

For more information about arts events at FSW, visit www.FSW.edu/artsfsw.

About the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery:

The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery was founded as The Gallery of Fine Art in 1979 on the Lee County campus of Florida SouthWestern State College/FSW (then Edison Community College). On June 4th 2004 the Gallery of Fine Art was renamed the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, to honor and commemorate our long time association and friendship with the artist. Over more than three decades until his death, the Gallery worked closely with Rauschenberg to present world premiere exhibitions including multiple installations of the ¼ Mile or Two Furlong Piece.  The artist insisted on naming the space the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery (versus the “Robert Rauschenberg Gallery”) as it was consistent with the intimate, informal relationship he maintained with both our local Southwest Florida community and FSW.

About FSW:

Florida SouthWestern State College is Southwest Florida’s largest and one of the most affordable institutions of higher education. Annually serving more than 22,000 students globally, FSW offers a variety of nationally-ranked, career-focused academic programs with two- and four-year degrees, and professional certifications. Students are also active in clubs and programs catered to their interests. FSW will debut its intercollegiate athletics program in the fall 2015. Visit www.FSW.edu for more information.

Last Updated: January 21, 2015