UW-River Falls hosting New York visual artist Janine Antoni

October 28, 2016 --The University of Wisconsin-River Falls Art Department is hosting New York based artist Janine Antoni as the Fall 2016 Walker D. and Helen Bryant Wyman Visiting Professor in Art Nov. 14-16.

Free public events with Antoni include a public lecture and roundtable discussions. Antoni will hold a public lecture, "At Home in the Body," on Monday, Nov. 14, at 5 p.m. in 222 North Hall. The first of two roundtable discussions is Tuesday, Nov. 15, from 1-3:30 p.m. in the Willow River Room, 334 University Center. A second roundtable discussion is Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 1-3:30 p.m. in the Riverview Ballroom, University Center.

Antoni is a visual artist who employs an amalgam of mediums including performance, sculpture, photography, installation, and video. Her body is both her tool for making and the source from which her meaning arises. She is known for transforming materials like chocolate and soap, and uses everyday activities like bathing, eating, and sleeping into sculptural processes. She carefully articulates her relationship to the world, giving rise to emotional states that are felt in and through the body. In each piece, no matter the medium or image, a conveyed physicality speaks directly to the viewer's body.

Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1964 and received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman Grant, Creative Capital Artist Grant and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.

For more information, call the UW-River Falls Art Department at 715-425-3266 or email Rhonda Willers, faculty coordinator, at rhonda.willers@uwrf.edu or Susan Zimmer, administrative support, at susan.m.zimmer@uwrf.edu.