Fall 2024 Visiting Artist Colloquium: Joseph Peragine

Name: Fall 2024 Visiting Artist Colloquium: Joseph Peragine
Start: 2024-11-13T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-13T19:15:00-05:00
Location: Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

Schedule

Wed Nov 13 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:15 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Conrad A. Elvehjem Building | Madison, WI

Joseph Peragine is an artist and educator. His paintings, sculpture and animation have been presented widely in galleries, contemporary art spaces and museums throughout the country and internationally. The scope of Peragine's multi-disciplinary practice encompasses public art projects and commissions, including exhibitions at Art in General in New York City, Islip Museum of Art, West Islip, New York, Sunken Garden Park, Atlanta, and an installation for the Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, for which he was also awarded an Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence for Public Art, as well as being noted one of the best public art projects in 2001 in Art in America. Peragine's animations have been exhibited at the Palm Beach ICA, Florida, the Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, MOCA GA, Atlanta, Georgia, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, and the Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival, among others. His paintings, drawings and sculpture have been exhibited in galleries including Solomon Projects, Atlanta, Atlelie397, Sao Paulo, Brazil, David J. Spencer Museum at the CDC, Atlanta, Agnes Scott College, Dalton Gallery, Decator, Georgia, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, the UA Museum of Art, and Kress Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia.
Peragine was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1961. He completed his undergraduate work in fine art at the University of Georgia, Athens, and in 1995 received his MFA in painting from Georgia State University, Atlanta. Peragine is the Director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia.
Fall 2024 Visiting Artist Colloquium
Wednesdays @ 5 – 6:15pm
Elvehjem L160
Online at Zoom:
uwmadison.zoom.us/my/artcolloquium
The Art Department Colloquium is a series supported by the Anonymous Fund and the Brittingham Trust. Visiting Artist lectures are held every Wednesday during the academic year, and are free and open to the public.
Discover the latest developments in Fine art, Craft, and Design at our free public lectures by some of the nation’s most prominent artists, critics, and gallery and museum directors.