Visiting artist Erik Levine will give a public lecture at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 18, in Room 116 at Art Building West. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Levine is an associate professor of art at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. His recent work reflects his interest in the complexity of the masculine psyche.

Levine has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. His work includes sculpture, drawings, and most recently video, and is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Des Moines Art Center, among several others. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pollock–Krasner Foundation awards. In addition, he’s received two grants each from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, as well as grants from Awards in the Visual Arts, Nancy Graves Foundation, and most recently, Outpost Artist Resources and the Jerome Foundation.

The lecture is sponsored by the School of Art and Art History, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, contact the School of Art and Art History, 150 ABW, in advance at 319-335-1376.