Public Lecture

Independent scholar and curator Petra Giloy-Hirtz will talk about Hassel Smith (1915 – 2007).

Smith was an innovative and widely appreciated West Coast-based artist during the significant early phase in the development of Abstract Expressionism in the United States.

Smith was a highly influential teacher; from the mid-1940s to the early 1950s he taught at the California Schoool of Fine Arts, then considdred to be the center of experimental abstraction.

The lecture is a co-presentation with 333 Montezuma Arts, who will be exhibiting Hassel Smith "Cosmotiana: The Measured Paintings (1970 – 1986)".

6:00 to about 7:00 p.m.  In St. Francis Auditorium

Free