Martin Kersels Lecture at MoCC Tonight
Martin Kersels is a big man making big art. Most of his sculptures and photographs have to do with size relationships. Human hamster wheels, giant shoes, giant nests. His works tend to accentuate mass and gravity.
Martin Kersels
Lecture Series through PNCA
6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft, 724 N.W. Davis St.
Free and open to the public
Los Angeles-based artist Martin Kersels has long used art as a forum for wrestling with the limitations and possibilities of being a fully embodied, sentient and emotional being. He employs a range of media, from sculpture and photography to video and performance. He has worked on staff at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the UCLA Art Department, and currently serves as a faculty member and co-director of the art program at the California Institute of the Arts. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the J. Paul Getty Museum and ACME in Los Angeles, Deitch Projects in New York, and the Galerie Georges-Phillipe and Nathalie Vallois in Paris.
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